SOMERSETSHIRE - 1889

JDIRECTORY. SOMERSETSHIRE. FROME• 229
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.JACOB .JOHN, LAMB HOTEL, family & commercial & Newport James & Son, house furnishers,I6 Lower Market pl

posting hollS6, Top of Bath street Newport Benjamin, provision dealer, 24 Catherine hill

James Sydney M.R.c.v.s. veterinary surgeon, 9 North par Newport Charles,hay & straw dealer, n Christchurch st.west

James William Henry, hair dresser, I9 Cheap street Nicholls Ambrose, tailor, I3 Catherine street

.Jelly Edwin John, registrar of births & deaths for Frome Nicholls Frederick, farmer, Old I<'ord

sub-district, 5 North parade Noakes Robert, coal dealer, 4 Peter street

Jelly Frederick, cabinet maker, 7 Vallis way Norris Thomas, Griffin P.H. Milk street

.Jones Emma (Miss), dining rooms, 29 Catherine bill Norris William, builder, IS Vallis way

Jones Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, I2 Cross street North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry (A or Frome troop)

Jones Thomas, coal dealer, 6 York street (Lieut. Chas. Waiter Le Gros; Sergeant-Major William

Jordan Alfred, carver & gilder, 8 Cheap street James Davies, drill instructor)

.Joyce Elijah, confectioner & fruiterer, I7 & 18 Catherine bl Norvall William, beer retailer, Spring gardens

Joyce Samuel, wheelwright 95 Broadway Norvill John, boot & shoe maker, 4 Catherine street

Keen Samuel John, grocer, 3I Vallis way Norvill Robert (Mrs), boot & shoe maker, 56 Catherine st

Kelley ueorge, shopkeeper, I04 The Butts Oatley Daniel, baker & grocer, 23 Catherine street

Kelly William, inland revenue officer, I Sunnyside Oborne Harry, butcher, Cross street
Kemm Elizabeth (Miss), fancy repository, 6 Cheap street Olive Edmund, solicitor & commissioner for oaths & agent

Kent Mary Fussell (Miss), dress· maker, I South parade for the British Law Fire & English & Scottish Law Life

Kent William R. deputy superintendent Tegistrar, Bath st Insurance Companies, I The Bridge

Ketley Matthew, shopk&-per, 9 Church street Organ Ephraim Orlando, plumber & painter, 3 Cross street

Ketterer Matthew, watch & clock maker, Io Keyford Osborne William, farmer, St. Algars farm, West Woodlands

King Joseph, beer retailer, Blatchbridge Osgood Alfred, grocer, 27 The Butts

.KIRBELL FREDERICK, GEORGE HOTEL (family & com- Padfield Henry Thomas, baker, Wine street

mercial) & posting ho. & agent to the Gt. Western Railway Palmer Edward Wilton, commercial traveller, 31 Fromefield

for delivery of parcels, & inland revenue office, Market pl PARFITT .JOSEPH GEORGE, Selwood dairy, 43 Catherine

Kite John, coal dealer, 6g Broadway st. ; & wholesale butter merchant, Bleets farm, Feltham

Knapton Charles, jobmaster, I Keyford place Parfit.t Thomas, builder, Nunney lane

Knapton Iphis Thomas, carpenter, 17 Wine street Parsons & Son, surgeons, 3 Nort.h parade.

Knight James, Somerset Arms P.H. go The Butts Parsons Joshua, surgeon, & medical officer of health to
Knight Thomas, greengrocer, 33 Butts hill Frome urban & rural sanitary authorities (firm,Parsons &

Lamb family & commercial hotel & posting house (John Son), 3 North parade

Jacob, proprietor), Top of Bath street Parsons J. Frederick, surgeon & certifying factory surgeon

Lambert John Henry, Great Western hotel, Portway (firm, Parsons & Son), 3 North parade

Langford & Keynes, accountants, King street Paviour Frances (Miss), apartments, 12 Portway

Laurence Arthur Wm. boot & shoe ma. I Sheppard's barton Payne Rodney Pruiett, Bridge hotel, The Bridge

Laurence William, carpenter, 82 Broadway Peacock James, Ship P.H. Christchurch street west

Lawrence John R. mineral water manufr. I2 Horton street Peacock Joseph, railway contractor, 6I Broadway

Ledbury Tom (Mrs.), cabinet maker, 9 Vallis way Pearse Frederick Edward M.D. physician & surgeon & med-

Lenham Jessie (Mrs.), dining rooms, 4 The Bridge ical officer & public vaccinator, No. I district, Frome

Lewis John, pork butcher, 5 Stony str~t union, Argyle house, Bath street

Lifely Benjamin, horse dealer, Keyford Pedwell John, baker, I6 Cross street

Lifely Benjamin, jun. horse dealer, Marston road Penny William C. & James, printers & stationers, 7 Bath st

Lifely Richard, horse dealer, Nunney lane Penny Bank (Hy. Greenslade, actuary) {open every saturday

LIPPIATT THOMAS, wholesale & retail family grocer & evening, 5 to 7 p.m.), Bath street

provision factor, patent medicine vendor & hardware Penny Henry, baker, u Nail street

dealer, 6 Stoney street Penny William Hy. ironmonger, 10 & u Lower Market pl

Literary & Scientific Institution (Earl of Cork & Orrery K.P. Perkins Francis Joseph, watch maker & jeweller, 3 Bath st

president; G. W. Wiltshire, treasurer; E. Olive, sec.; W. Phillip Thomas, Swan P.H. Broadway

Kaynes, librarian), North parade Pickard James, beer retailer, Milk street

Lloyd Carolina (Mrs.), confP.ctioner, 46 Catherine street Pickford Arthur Thomas, farmer, Old Ford farm

LONDON SUPPLY STORES (Herbert H.Welham, propr.), Pickford Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 3I Naish's street

wholesale & retail grocers & provision dealers & patent Pickford John, farmer, Bull's bridge

medicine vendors, 4 Catherine hill & I3 Palmer street Pickford Samuel, miller (water), Feltham bridge

Long John, tailor, 40 Broad street Pike Thomas, farmer, Blatchbridge

Long Richard, boot & shoe maker, 14 Long row Pile John William, butcher, Io Catherine hill

Luke Elizh. (Mrs.), teacher of music, 9 Sunnyside, Keyford Pile Thomas, cattle dealer, Marston Back lane

McCarthy Hy. Wm. solicitor & commnr. for oaths ; & at Bath Pope John, shopkeeper, 16 Paul street

Maginn Kate (Mrs.), wardrobe dealer, 4 Palmer street Pope Thomas, stone mason, 24 The Butts

Mansford & Baily, wine & spirit merchants, Bath street Pope William, clothier, 41 Catherine street

Marsh Martin, linen draper, II Stony street Prangley Nathaniel, shoe maker, 5 Church street

Martin & Son,woollen cloth manufacturers,3 Welshmil! lane Price Thomas, saddler & harness ma.22 Lower Market place

Martin Chas. Ebenezer, baker, 4 Christchurch st. east Primrose League (Wickham Habitation) (George W. Jack-

Martin Sarah (Mrs. ),dress maker, 6 Sheppard's barton son, sec.), Christchurch street west

Matthews Richard, coal dealer, Murtrey Prince Albert's Somersetshire Light Infantry 3rd Volunteer

Mattick Waiter, beer retailer, Cottle's oak Battalion ( D Co.) (Capt. A. H. Tucker ; A. Hiscock, drill

Maundrell David, baker, 7 Palmer street instructor); bead quarters & armoury, Gentle street

Mead George, beer retailer, 3I Vallis way PROSSER HENRY .JONATHAN, maker & importer of

Mechanics' Hall (E. G. Ames, sec.), Church slope PIANOFORTES, ORGANS &c. & dealer in all kinds of

Mechanics' Institution (S. Spill, sec.; Mrs. E. Turner, musical instruments&music seller, Market place; factory

librarian), Church slope at Road
Pulham John Dyke, grocer, & agent for W. & A. Gilbey,
Merritt Ann (Mrs.), apartments, 5 Keyford
Miles William, Angel & Crown P.H. Vallis way wine & spirit merchants, 5 Bath street
Millard William, shopkeeper, go Broadway
Quartley William, Ring of Bells P.H. Broadway

Minns Charles Royall, Sun P.H. 6 Catherine street Randall Waiter, confectioner, 13 Stoney street
Rattray John Moysey M.A., M.B., c.M. physician & surgeon
Mitchell & Son, grocers, 33 Catherine hill
Mitchell Elizabeth (Miss), dress maker, 13 Cross street (firm, Cockey & Rattray), Christchurch street west
Moody Lucy (Miss), dress maker, 23 Cheap street Raven Henry John, New inn, & shopkeeper, The Butts
Moore George, teacher of music, 20 Market place
Rawlings Henry Tovey & Co. woollen manufacturers, Broad-
Moore Richard, insurance agent, 76A, Keyford way & Staplemead mills
Moore William, confectioner, 21 Catherine street
Morgan Edward, Bell inn, Trinity street Rawlings S. & Son, manufrs. of wool, cotton & flax cards &
Morgan Henry, wholesale fish merchant, Church street leather belting, machinists & millwrights,South Par.wrks

Morgan Richard, beer retailer, Tytherington Rebbeck William, Black Swan P.H. Bridge street
Morgan Thomas, coal haulier, Blatch bridge Reeves Robert Orledge, mineral water manufr. I3 Palmerst

Religious Tract Society Depository (William B. Harvey's),

Morgan William Edmund, shopkeeper, 12 Milk street 20 Bath street

Morgan Wiiliam Henry, stone mason, 10 Duke street Rendall Francis, George P.H. & farmer, West Woodlands

Muir J. & T. linen & woollen drapers & tailors (travei:ing), Rendall James, hay & straw dealer, Water lane

4 Orchard street Rich John, lodging house, 9 Broad street

Naish John, farmer, Clink gate farm Richards Alice (Miss), shopkeeper, Bridge street

National Temperance Depository(Wm.B. Har.ey'sj,20 Bath st Richards Emma (Mrs.), millinr & dress maker, I7 Lolwer

Nelsou James & Son, butchers, 22 Cheap street Market place

Newnham William, dairy farmer, Spring gardens Richardson Samuel Fred. baker & grocer, 28 Blunt street .

230 FRO:ME. SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELJ,y's

Rolfe Edward, carpenter, Christchnrch street west Trimby Henry, beer retailer, 30 Vicarage street

Rossiter Austin Alfred, Queen's Head P.H. 33 Whittox lane Tucker Alfred Harris, woollen manufactr. Wallbridge mills

Rossitter John Wesley, cabinet maker & upholstrer. Bath st Tucker Elijah, goods agent to the Great Western Railway •
Rouse Thomas, wagon builder, Vallis road
Co. Badcox parade

Royal Somerset Lodge of Freemasons (No. 973) (R. J. Buck, Turner Annie Elizabeth {Mrs.), apartments, Hall ho.Cork st
sec.), Masonic ball, Palmer street
Turner Ernest, shopkeeper, 40 Vallis way
Ruddock James, beer retailer, I6 Cheap street
Turner Samuel, Crown P.H. Keyford

Ryall Charles, confectioner, 5 Cheap street Udall Sarah Amelia (Mrs), dress ma. 4 Brookling vils. Butts

Sage Charles James, chemist & stationer, 2 Market place Udell James, coal dealer, 5 Naish's street

St. John's Dispensary (J. M. Rattray 'M.A., M.B. medical Udell William, coal dealer, Old Ford hill
officer), Christchurcb street east
Underhill Robert, sub-bailiff to county court, xo Church st
Sansom Joseph, beer retailer, IS Paul street
Underhill Thomas, boot & shoe maker & town crier, I+

Seer George, woollen manufacturer, The Woodlands Christchurch street west

Seward Frederick John, builder & general contractor1under- VALLIS .JOHN, builder, general contractor & timber mer-
taker & brick & tile maker, Butts hill chant, Christchurch street east & 6 King street

Shaw Fras. postmaster & distributor of stamps, Bath street Vallis Maria (Mrs), shoe warehouse, 4 Stoney street

Sheppard & Co. woollen cloth merchants, Pilly vale Vallis Way Coffee Tavern(Jn.Smith,man.),43& 44Vallis way

Sheppard Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 23 Blunt street Velton Richard, grocer, 17 Cross street

Short James, coach builder, Butts bill Vennell John, baker, 20 Naish's street

Shrimpton Henry, china & glass dealer, 7 Catherine hill Vincent Alfred, fishmonger, IS Cheap street

Simister Elijah, woollen cloth manufacturer, Woodlands Vincent John H. deputy registrar of births & deaths, Frome

Sims Albert William, boot maker, 8 Bath street district, 3 Sunnyside

Sims Elizh. (Mrs.), temperance hotel, 32 Christchurch st.ea Vincent Thomas B. pawnbroker & clothier, 20 Cheap street;

Singer J. W. & Sons, bronze founders & art metal workers, Viner Arthur, dairy farmer, Frieze farm

Cork street · Walker Ellen (Miss), haberdasher, 32 Keyford

Singer Manufacturing Co. (Alfd. Evans, agt. ),2 Catherine bl Wall Thomas, livery stable proprietor, 3 Bridge street

Singer John Thos. dairy farmer, Emblenis farm, Friggle it Wallvin Caroline (Mrs.), baker, 25 Keyford

Smart Samuel, umbrella maker, I7 Broad street WATERS CHARLES, wholesale & retail grocer & provision

Smith Alfred, cabinet maker, I6 Vallis way dealer, 2 The Bridge

Smith Alfred, gasfltter, '23 Naish's street Watts Ernest James, butcher, I2 Long row

Smith Caroline (Mrs.), dress maker, I8 Christchurch st. ea Watts Henry, shopkeeper, '17 Whittox lane

Smith George, hair dresser, IS Palmer street Watts Samuel, machinist, Vallis road

Smith Henry, general dealer, xo York street Watts Thomas, farmer, Court farm, East Woodlands

Smith Samuel Joseph, shopkeeper, 30 Naish's street Weaver Henry, cattle dealer, Vallis house

Smith William, Royal Standard F.H. Horton street Webb Alfd. saddler & harness maker, 2 Christchurch st, ea

Snook Frederick, china, glass & genrl. wareho. top Gentle st Webb Charles, beer retailer, Marston road

SNOOK FREDERICK, livery stable proprietor; funeral cars Webb Henry, watch maker & jeweller, I8 Lower Market pl

of the newest designs always on hire & a first-class stable Webb Reuben, butcher, 45 Catherine street

of horses suitable for weddings or funerals ; horses or Wells William, Vine Tree P.H. Clink

carriages let on hire by day, week, month or year; Bath West William, farmer, Marsh farm, Blatchbridge

Street mews Whaits James, district superintendent for the Prudential

Snook Samuel, outfitter, Catherine bill Assurance Co. 4 North parade

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Depository (W. Wheeler & Son, boot & shoe makers, 8 Badcox

C. & J. Penny), 7 Bath street Wheeler Ada (Miss), dress maker, 58 Naish's street

Somerset Standard & Wilts & Dorset Advertiser (The Frome Wheeler Herbert Charles, draper, 7 Badcox

Printing & PublishingCo. publishers; pub.sat.),Church st White Bros. wholesale cheese factors ; office & warehouse,.

Somerset & Wilts Journal (published at the Selwood printing Pilly vale

works on saturday). See advertisement . WHITE HENRY &. SON, timber merchants, saw mill pro-

Sparrow Albert James, watch maker, 49 Catherine street prietors, makers of TIN PLATE BOXES; also farmers &

Stacey James, Blue Boar P.H. Lower Market place corn millers (steam & water), Brookover farm, Spring

Stacy & Freeman, boot & shoe maker, 9 Stony street gardens ; & at Murtrey mill, Buckland Dinham

Stamp Office (Francis Shaw, distributor), Post office,Bath st White John & Son, bellhangers & gasfitters, 41 Vallis way

Staples Betsy (Mrs.), beer retailer, 26 Keyford White .Alfred, baker, n Cross street

Starr Albert Edward, hair dresser, 55 Catherine street White Charles, farmer, Brookover, Spring gardens

Starr Frank, fruiterer, I2 Market place White Isaac J. coal merchant, Water lane

Stevens Mary (Miss), milliner, 7 North parade White John, tailor, Broadway

Stewart John, travelling draper, 23 Keyford White Robert, shoe maker, 9I The Butts

Stickler Henry Charles, watch maker, I6 Palmer street White William, baker, I Fountain lane

Stickler William, coal dealer, New Buildings lane Whiting Alfred, stone mason, Io3 Broadway

Stickler William, grocer, I2 Whittox lane Whitlock Meshack, rope & twine manufacturer, 8 Christ-

Stillman James, grocer, Cottles oak church street west

Stocker Samuel, tinplate worker, 31 Catherine hill Whitmarsh Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Spring gardens

Stokes Mary .Ann (Mrs.), linen draper, 4 Long row Wilcox George William, tailor, I7 Gentle street

Stokes William James, slater, Horton street Wilcox James, <'oal dealer, 5 Broadway

Stone Sarah Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer, Christchurch st. east Wilcox John, beer retailer, Clink

Stratton Alfred, cooper, 29 Horton street Wilcox Oliver, locksmith, Victoria yard

Stuckey's Banking Co. (branch) (Robert E. Dickinson J.P. Willcock Sarah Jane (Mrs.), Crown & Sceptre P.H. Trinity st

& Arthur Duckett, joint managers), Bath street; draw on Willcox James, shopkeeper, 2 Nail street

Robarts, Lubbock & Co. London E c Williams Charles Henry, baker, Brandy lane

Sunday School Union Depository(Wm.B.Harvey's),2oBath st Williams Elizabeth (Mrs.), dre8s maker, 7 Paul street

Swaine Agnes S. & Ellen B. (Misses), berlin wool & fancy Williams James Wyndham, grocer, 57 Catherine street

repository• 5 The Bridge Williams Joseph, Railway P.H. Wallbridge

Swaine & Son, tailors, 6 'fhe Bridge Williams Joseph, superintendent of police & inspector of

Sweet William Albert, carpenter, 24 Trinity street weights & measures, Police station, Christchurch st. west.

Swift Ann (Mrs.), umbrella maker, 2I Cheap street Williamson John, butcher, I4 Cross street

Taylor George, jobbing gardener, I2 Christchurch st. west Williamson Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 29 Broad street

Taylor Henry, shopkeeper, 73 Broadway Willis James, relieving officer for Frome district, IO Butt.s hill

Taylor Louisa (Miss), dress maker, I2 Christchurch st.west Wilmott !<'rank, provision dealer, I r Milk street

Taylor Sidney, hair dresser, 24 Catherine street Wilson & Co. Limited, brewers' engineers, Welchmill road

Temperance Hall (W. B. Harvey, sec.), Catherine hill Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited (branch) (George

Thick Frank, watch maker, 30 Catherine street William Wiltshire, manager), Market place; draw on

Thick Henry, beer retailer, 26 Catherine hill London & Westminster Bank Limited, London E c

Thick William, watch maker & jeweller, 8 The Bridge Wiltshire George William, manager of the Wilts & Dorset.

Thomas J. surveyor of taxes, 2I King street Bank & treasurer to the local board, Market place

Thompson & Le Gros, silk manufacturers, Merchants Barton Wiltshire Henry, shopkeeper, 16 Fromefield

Thrasher James, umbrella maker, I4 Nail street Wintle Vaughan, boys' school, Christchurch st. east

Thrasher Job, carpenter, 99 The Butts 'Wise J oseph, shoeing smith, 12 Christchurch street west.

Thrasher John, coal dealer, 8 Bell lane Witcomb Charlotte (Mrs.), farmer, Lower Keyford

Thresher John, pork butcher, I6 Catherine hill Witcomb Frank, locksmith, Cross street

Timbury Charles, greengrocer, 26 Catherine street Withey John, boot & shoe maker, 99 Broadway

Timbury Charlotte (Mrs.), Three Swans P.H. King street Wright Samuel, shoe maker, II Christchurch street east

Tranter George, Pack Horse inn, Christchurch street west Ycates Mary (Mrft.), grocer & draper, 28 Keyford

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Yeo William, shopkeeper, 4 Vicarage stree~ ' Yerbury Mary (Mrs.), toy & fancy repository, 57 Catherine st

Yeoman Sarah Ann (Mrs.), fancy draper, I4 Palmer street Yerbury William, plumber & glazier, 58 Keyford

Yeoman Simon, beer retailer, Tytherington Youdle Eliza (Mrs.), grocer, 35 The Butts

Yeoman Thomas Henry, farmer, West Woodlands Youdle Levi, corn & hay dealer, 13 Christchurch street east

Yerbury Henry, coach builder, The Butts Young George, harness maker, 38 Vallis way

YERBURY .lAMES, coach builder, Frome Selwood carriage Young Men's Christian Association (F. J. Hodder & H.

works, I Keyford. See advertisement Barry, hon. secs.), High street

GASPER and BONHAM are hamlets in this county a sandy loam; subsoil, clay and sandstone. The land is

half a miht apart, and belonging to the parish of Stourton in chiefly used for dairy purposes. The area is 1,256 acres;

the county of Wilts, 6 miles north-east from Wincanton and rateable value, £I,3IO; the population in 1881 was 233.
3 south-east from Mere, Eastern division of the county, WALL LETTER Box, cleared at 6.45 p.m. on week days only.
hundred of Norton Ferris, union of Mere, Shaftesbury county Letters received from Bath via Stourton, arrive at 9 a. m.
court district. The inhabitants attend the church at The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Mere

Stourton. There is a Catholic chapel at Bonham dedicated Catholic School, Gasper (mixed), erected in 1847, for so

to St.. Benedict.. Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare hart. D.L., J.P. of children; average attendance, 23; Miss Annie Crow,

Stonrhead House, is the principal landowner. The soil is mistress

Gasper. Balch Charles,miller (water), Gasper hl Bonham.

Creagh Symon Pierse, Brook house Cook George, farmer, Ridge farm Tunney Rev. James Edmund o.s.B.
Green Miss
Hughes James, farmer [Catholic], Bonham house
McQuillan Miss
Wickham James, farmer Tucker Edwin, farmer, Bonham farm

GLASTONBURY.

GLASTONBURY is a municipal borough and market town, 132 the peculiar position of the place as surrounded with water,

miles by rail, via Temple Combe and Salisbury, and 158 by literally and poetically "the isle of the glassy wave," which

rail, via Bristol, from London, 40 south, via Highbridge, it was before the neighbouring streams had been artificially

from Bristol, 18 east by rail from Bridgwater, 6 south from confined within their present limits. The second name,

Wells, 9 south-west from Shepton Mallet and 7~ north from "Avallonia" (the mead of the apple), is derived from the

Somerton, in the Eastern division of the county, Glaston word "aval," the Saxon for apple, the island being then, as

Twelve Hides hundred, Wells petty sessional division, union now, remarkable for the beauty of its apple orchards.

and county c:>urt district, rural deanery of Glastonbury, This place gave the title of baron to James Grenville esq.

archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells : it created Baron Glastonbury, 20 Oct. 1797, but this peerage

formerly consisted of two parishes, St. John the Baptist and became extinct on his death in 1826.

St. Benedict; which, however, were united for civil purposes The church of St. John the Baptist, situated on the north

only, under the authority of a special Act of Parliament, side of and near to the High street, is built principally of

in 1834 : the united parishes are intersected by the river freestone from the Doulting quarries, in the Perpendicular

Brue, and by the great western road from London, passing style, and was probably erected during the reigns of Henry

through Bath and Wells. VI. and Edward IV. : it consists of chancel, nave of three

In 1834, under the authority of an Act obtained in 1827, a bays, aisle.!!, transepts, porch and a western tower qo feet

canal was opened from Highbridge (where it is connected high, with an open-worked parapet and tall pinnacles, and

with the Bristol channel) to Glastonbury and by a subsequent containing a clock and 8 bells : the organ was the gift of Mr.

Act, passed in 1852, the canal was purchased by the Bristol John Yeoman in 1818, and the stone pulpit that of Lady

and Exeter Railway Company, and subsequently sold by Charlotte Neville Grenville: there is an ancient altar-tomb

them to the Central Somerset Railway Company, who con- (said to have been brought from the abbey), to one Camel,

structed the line from Highbridge to Glastonbury and its purse-bearer or treasurer to one of the abbots; and in the

extension to Wells in 1855. The Central Somerset Railway chancel are other altar-tombs to Richard Atwell, ob. 1472,

Company ultimately merged into the Somerset and Dorset, and Joan Atwell, his wife, both liberal benefactors to the

London and South Western and Midland Joint railway, who church: there is also a small brass to members of the Dyer

carried out the further extensions to Bath and to Poole and family dated 1633-1670 : the church affords sittings for 6oo

Bournemouth; there is also a line from here to Wells con- persons, of which soo are free. The register dates from

necting the town with the Great Western railway. The 16o3. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £257, with

station is a short distance from the police barracks and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and

about half a mile from the centre of the town. held since 1865 by the Rev. Charles Sydenham Ross M.A. of

The town was incorporated by Queen Anne 2oth June, Hertford College, Oxford.

1706, the corporate body then consisting of eight " capital The church of St. Benedict, built on the site of a previous

burgesses," including the mayor for the time being, and six- church about A.D. 1520, by Abbot Bere, whose monogram

teen "inferior burgesses," besides a recorder and town " R. B.., is inserted or-er the principal doorway, is a building

clerk. Peter King esq. (afterwards created in 1725 L<ird of stone, in the Early Gothic style, consisting of chancel,

King, Baron Ockham, and Lord High Chancellor of England nave, aisles, north porch and an embattled western tower

May 25, 1725) was the first recorder, and it was chiefly with pinnacles, containing 6 bells : in the Sharpham chapel

through his influence that the charter was obtained. Under Sir Henry Gould, appointed a justice of the King's Bench,

the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835 (5 & 6 William IV. c. Jan. 26th, 1699, is buried: the church has recently (1889)

76), the number of the Corporation, which is also the Urban been restored and the south aisle added at a cost of £3,000,

Sanitary Authority, was reduced to four aldermen and of which £soo was given by James Austin esq. and £3oo

twelve councillors. The inhabitants were summoned, A.D. by the late Miss Holman : there are sittings for 355 persons.

1319, to return two members to Parliament, but William The register dates from 1740. The living, originally a

de Grinstede, then bailiff of the Twelve Hides, made no chapelry annexed to St. John's, is now a distinct vicarage,

return to the writ. The mayor and justices have magis- net yearly value[.3oo,from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,

terial jurisdiction within the bounds of the borough, and the in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held since

mayor is a justice of the peace for the year succeeding his 1884 by the Rev. Charles Grant, rural dean of Glastonbury.

year of office. There is a Catholic chapel attached to the Convent of Our

The town is paved, and lighted with gas from works Lady, which is open to the public, and is now (1889) about

situated in North Load street, the property of a company ; to be enlarged. The Congregational chapel, adjoining High

the costs of paving and lighting are defrayed by rates levied street, is a substantial building of freestone, erected in 1814

by commissioners, under the powers of a local Act obtained on the site of a house used as a chapel from 17o6: Mr. John

for the purpose in 18u. The town is partly supplied with Yeoman bequeathed to the chapel £6oo and an organ: the

water from two ancient wells, one on the west side of Edmund building will seat 320 person~. The Wesleyan chapel, Lam-

hill, distant I mile, and the otber near " Above Town ; " brook street, built in 1866 at a cost of {.2,6oo, and will seat

both were built and the water conveyed in pipes to the public 400 persons. The Primitive Methodist chapel, North Load

conduits, by one or more of the former rulers of the abbey, street, built in 1844 and enlarged in 1875, will now seat

but the chief supply is now obtained from reservoirs situated 170. The Brethren have rooms at Above Town and Lam-

in Well House lane and at Ed,ooarley; the latter, constructe.d brook street.

in 1887, is capable of holding 5 million gallons. The police The Cemetery of 3A. 1R. 35P. was formed in 1854 at a

arrangements are under the control of the chief constable of cost of £2,ooo, and has two mortuary chapels: it is under

the county. the control of a burial board of nine members.

Glastonbury, the "Ynyswytryn" of the ancient Britons, The local charities are of very limited extent. On the

"Avallonia" of the Romans, and" Glrestin-ga-byrig" of the w~t tide of Ma.,o-dalene street is the almshouse of St. Mary

Anglo-Saxons, is a place of great interest to the historian Magdalene, for ten poor old men, and in the rear of the Red

and antiquary. The first and third names are derived from Lion inn (formerly the abbey gatehouse) is an al.mshouse

~3.2 GLASTONBl"l\Y. SOMERSETSHIRE. [KELLI'S

for ten poor old women : both these institutions were founded the' island of "Ynyswytryn" or "Avallonia" a chapel of

by successive abbots, the latter being the work of Abbot wattled work, 6o feet long by 26 wide, being the first Chris-

Bere, A.D. 1512 ; the almspeople were formerly supported tian oratory in England dedicated to the worship of God ;

by endowments from the founders, but at the Dissolution these missionaries at length died, and the spot again became

all the revenues connected with the abbey were seized by a solitude until, in 166, other evangelists, sent by Pope

the kmg. The present revenues are derived from an in- Eleutherius, discovered the deserted chapel, and during a

vestment of £2,034 14s. 7d. in Three per Cent. Annuities; residence here of nine years re-established the mission and

an annuity of £6, presented by Roger Nightingale (clerk), settled a number of their converts as anchorites; the establish-

and Margaret his wife, A. D. 1634, and charged on the Crown ment was visited about 433 by St. Patrick, who formed the

'inn, and another annuity of £2, to which an addition of £8 mission into a regular monastic community, and assumed the

yearly was made by Dr. Parfitt, late incumbent of St. John's office of abbot,which he held until his death in 472, being then,

church, and charged on lands at Meare. according to the legend, 111 years of age; and his remains

In 1666, James Levinston esq. founded what is called the were interred in the chapel, on the south side of the altar;

"second poor charity," now (1889) amounting to about £40 and in 512 Gildas the hi~torian, dying here, was also buried

a year, half of which is given to poor persons not receiving in the chapel, which, the chronicler records, was repaired

parish relief, and the residue is applied in aid of the funds of by St. Paulinus, Archbishop of York, who boarded it over

the National schools. There are two or three other charities and protected the roof with lead ; besides the original

of small amount. chapel (vetusta ecclesia), several others were built at dif-

The Town Hall is a plain but substantial building, erected ferent times to the east of it, the earliest of these being one

A.D. 1814, and will hold 200 persons, the previous town ball, reared by St. David on his visit in the 6th century, another

built in 1717 near the same site being then removed ; the was made by the twelve converts from the north part of Bri-

insignia of the corporation include a silver-gilt mace, 3 feet tain, and a third by Ina, King of the West Saxons, so that at

in length, dating from 1705; it has a chased shaft of un- the beginning of the 8th century these constituted a group

usual elegance, with fluted knops and a crowned head. Ad- of buildings, the ancient church being the westernmost, and

joining the Town Hall is one of the great gates of the abbey, that of Ina at the extreme east end of the site. The arter-

now converted into the Red Lion inn. Underneath the wards famous Dunstan, a recluse here, and made abbot by

council chamber is the museum of the Antiquarian Society, King Edmund in 940, introduced the Benedictine rule, and

established in 1887, and of which Mr. Alderman Bulleid is began in 954 the erection of a large church and a complete

the president. The museum contains a valuable collection arrangement of monastic offices, which remained until the

of antiquarian and topographical works, MSS. autographs accession of the Norman abbots, the original chapel with its

and engravings, purchased of the late Mr. Serel, and attendant oratories being apparently left undisturbed ; the

numerous relics connected with the abbey and the town first Norman abbot, Turstinus, installed in 1082, undertook

and neighbourhood : it is open to the public daily from 10 the rebuilding of the great church, but his work was wboliy

to 6 upon payment of a small fee. removed by Herlewin his successor (no1-n2o), who erected

The County Police Station is situated in Benedict street, a new church upon which he spent a large sum ; Henry de

and attached to it are dwellings for the officers. Blois, brother of King Stephen and Bishop of Winchester,

The Vestry Hall, a building of ornamental character, is was abbot from 1126 to 1171, and erected a bell tower, and

in the High street, and beneath it is the Fire Engine house. completed the whole of the monastic buildings as well as a

In 1551 a number of foreign weavers, chiefly Flemings, fine palace, after theNorman model. On St. Urban's day,

encouraged by the Lord Protector Somerset, settled in 25 March n84, the abbey was entirely destroyed by fire,

Glastonbury as weavers of woollen cloths ; these consisted but was soon after rebuilt under the authority of a charter of

in all of 46 families, with six widows, to whom were granted Henry II. the direction of the work being entrusted to Ralph

letters of " denization" and a confirmation of their " craft the chamberlain, son of King Stephen, under whose super-

letters patent," with other privileges; the community, intendence the church of St. Mary, now called" St. Joseph's

governed by a warden and overseers of their own election, chapel," was re-erected on the site of the "Venerable structure

and in matters of religion by a superintendent, who dwelt built by St. Joseph and his companions, and consecrated 11

in part of the disused abbey buildings, thus became, in fact, June, 1186 (circiter), by Reginald, Bishop of Bath, a period of

an English guild, but on the death of Edward VI. they lost two years being occupied in the work : by the king's order

their patron, the duke, who was attainted and executed he repaired the monastic offices and began the building of

Jan. 22, 1551-2, and on the accession of Queen Mary they the great church, to which, when completed, the remains of

quitted England and went to Frankfort. The woollen trade, St. Patrick, Gildas and the martyr Indractus, which had

however, continued to flourish here for upwards of a century: been dug up after the fire and placed in shrines, were re-

some years afterwards the silk manufacture was introduced moved ; the monks also produced other relics, which they

by a man named "Dutch," but this branch of industry died asserted were those of St. Dunstan, and a great controversy

out early in the present century. For many years the knit- arose with Canterbury on this point ; the abbot Henry de

stocking trade gave employment to a large number of hands, Soliaco, nephew of Henry II. by order of that monarch, dis-

and subsequently leather gloves were largely made ; but the interred the remains of the renowned King Arthur and his

prosperity of these trades has been greatly depreciated by Queen Guinevra, which had been buried near the church, and

the introduction of machinery. There are still large manu- eventually placed them in a sarcophagus of black marble in

factories of sheepskin rugs at Northover and Beckery, of the midst of the presbytery: Waiter de Tant.onia, who be-

leather board at Bowling Green, and of leather gloves and came abbot c. 1322, erected when prior the pulpitum or choir

dressed ornamental leather in Chilkwell street. There are screen, which was adorned with figures and bad above it a

also steam flour mills at Beckery and in Magdalene street ; great rood : Adam de Sodbury, abbot 1322-35, vaulted

and several brick and tile manufactories adjoining the Wells nearly the whole of the nave and enriched it with paintings,

road. and he also gave the great automatic clock, which was set

The market, which is an extensive one for cattle, is held up in the south arm of the transept, but on the dissolution

on the second and fourth Mondays in each month, and is of the abbey this ingenious machine, constructed by Peter

well supported. There are large and important horse, Lightfoot., a monk, and the earliest of the kind on record,

sheep and cattle fairs held here on the 19th September was removed to the Cathedral of Wells; where its face and a

(called the Tor fair) and on the nth October (called Michael- great part of its mechamsm still remain : this abbot further

mas fair) ; these fairs are held in a large field conveniently bestowed upon the church organs of unusual size, and placed

situated about midway between the Somerset and Dorset an image of the Virgin over the high altar: Waiter Mon-

railway station and the market place. The new market ington, abbot 1341-74, vaulted the choir and presbytery

cross, 16 feet in height, was erected in 1846 at the intersec- and lengthened the latter by two bays : Richard Beere, abbot

tion of the four principal streets near the site of the ancient 1493-54, vaulted the central tower and strengthened it with
high cross and conduit.
buttressing arches, like those at Wells; he repaired the choir,

The "Somerset Central Gazette," established in June, built St. Edgar's chapel on the east side of the south tran-

1861, is issued on Saturdays. sept, the chapel of our Lady of Loretto north of the nave,

Ponter's Ball, or Wall, intersected at right angles by the and that of the Holy Sepulchre on the south side and also
road from Glastonbury to West Pennard (at Havyatt), is presented to the church a lectern of ancient work : Abbot

an earthwork of great strength, constructed by the Belgic Beere died 20 January 1524, his successor being Richard

Britons, and extends to the low lands, formerly marshes, on Whitinge, the last abbot, who was nominated by Cardinal

each side of the road. There are traces of ancient military Wolsey, the monks having voluntarily given him that privi-

works on and round Tor Hill. A Roman road crossing the lege : the abbey had now attained the utmost height of

moor between ~orthover and the village of Street was dis- prosperity ; it was one of the most wealthy and magni-

covered in 188o. ficent establishments of the kind in England, and pos-

The famous Benedictine abbey of St. Mary, to which this sessed a library ha•·dly equalled by any other in all Britain,

place owes its chief celebrity, is traditionally said to have while the abbot's lodge was one of the greatest schools in the

been founded by Joseph of Arimathea, who, A.D. 63, was sent country, educating at least 300 sons of nobles and gentle-

with others by St. Philip, then preaching in France, to men; and such was its hospttality, that on every Wednesday

evangelise in Britain, and who having been admonished, and Friday all the poor of the neighbourhood were enter-

after his arrival here, by the archangel Gabriel, erected on tained: Abbot Whitinge, remaining firm to. his duty and
•

JDIRECTORY. SOMERSETSHIRE.. 2 3 3GLASTO~BURY.

denying the king's authority, was, on the 14th November, north transept are also left, and there are slight remains,

1539, after a mock trial at Wells, ignominiously hanged with about 4 feet in height, of the east wall of the choir, which,

two of his monks, on a hill overlooking the abbey. The work as well as the transepts, had eastern chapels: the whole of

<>f spoliation soon began ; the valuabl.e library of the abbey this work is elegant Early English, profusely adorned with

was scattered, the buildings dismantled or razed, and the zigzag moulding, with the exception of relics of the Perpen-

<>nce hallowed precincts were given up to desecration. The dicular panelling applied by Abbot Monington to the

.abbey estate and manor of Gla.lltonbury, comprising a large triforium and clerestory and the western doorway, which is

portion of t.he town, were given by Edward VI. to the Duke fully developed Early English of later character. The space to

<>f Somerset, on whose attainder all fell again to the Crown. the east and west of the great arch is covered with turf, but

The abbey estate was afterwards obtained by the Duke of at the western limit of the crossing a terrace is formed, the

Devonshire, who, in 1733, sold it to Thomas Bladen esq. for nave being on a lower level, and here a flight of four steps

£12,500: this gentleman had two daughters,whose husbands, has been constructed out of voussoirs from the crypt of St.

General St. John and Lord Essex, sold it for £40,500, and Mary's chapel ; the common cemetery lay to the north of the

in 18o6 James Rocke esq.becomingthe purchaser at £75,000, church, and on the south side of St. Mary's chapel was the

.sold portions to different persons. The manor, with the cemetery of the monks; a little beyond the west front of the

hundred and lordship of Glaston XII. Hides, was held, about chapel and towards the north once stood two crosses,which,

16o6, by Sir Henry Campbell hart. :it subsequently became in 1777, were reduced to a height of about 10 feet, aud on

divided into seven parts, and after passing through divers the south were two others, one of which, immediately oppo-

owners, by whom nearly all the l:l.nds belonging to the manor .site the south side of the chapel, marked the original burial

were from time to time sold off, the manor itself, with the place of St. Joseph and King Arthur, the other, more to the

hundred of the Twelve Hides, was sold toW. B. Naish esq. east, once bore a brass plate bearing an inscription reciting

in 1838, who disposed of his interest to J. J. Rocke esq. of the visit of the first missionaries and the dedication and

Glastonbury, the late lord of the manor. The abbey estate dimensions of their church ; this plate, now supposed to be

was some years since purchased of the late Henry Danby lost, was in Hearne's time (he d. 1735) in the possession of

Seymour esq. M.P. at a cost of £43,000, by its present pro- Mr. Thomas Hewes of Wells: the abbot's kitchen, situated

prietor, James Austin esq. who has improved the grounds, to the south-west of the church, is a building of the 14th

preserved the abbey ruins from further dilapidations, and eentury, about 33 feet square, with an octagonal roof of

collected and stored all such scattered fragments as could be wood, forming a great louvre, the boards of which could be

found. opened in sections by means of cords; the whole is sur-

The buildings previous to the dissolution of the monastery mounted by a lantern.

comprised the great church, with the ante-chureh and chapel ToR HILL is a remarkable and well-known eminence, on

of St. Mary at the west end, cloisters on the south side, with which a chapel is said to have been founded A. D. 166 : after

a chapter house in the eastern alley, and a slype or passage, this a chapel dedicated to St. Michael was built on the site

giving access to the infirmary and its chapel, and in the of the old chapel ; this edifice, destroyed by a landslip, n

south alley the frater (refectory) ; the principal gateway Sept. 1275, was rebuilt and again destroyed, but the tower,

stood opposite the north porch in the nave of the church; a structure of the 14th century, with later additions and a

.south-west of the church was another gatehouse for the very beautiful though simple composition, still stands, and

laity and guests, and here also stood the almery, with other may be seen from almost every elevated point in the

buildings, including the abbot's guest hall and kitchen, and county.

brewery, bakehouse, granaries &c.: the domestic buildings, On the southern slope of the Weary All Hill, near the Tor,

however, with the exception of the abbot's kitchen, have grew for centuries a famous whitethorn, reputed to have

wholly disappeared : the church, with its western annexe, been originally his staff, planted here by Joseph of Arima-

bad an extreme length of about 520 feet, the chnrch proper thea, which budded and blossomed every year at Christmas,

consisting of a nave of ten bays, 200 feet in interior length, and its produce was not only sent as a Christmas gift to the

transept 16o feet, choir of 6 bays, with retro-choir, together Kings of England but was shipped by merchants of Bristol

I45 feet, central tower, and a porch about 45 by 25 feet, on as a rare and sacred curiosity to places beyond the seas ; its

the north side of the nave ; the internal width of both nave twin trunks continued to flourish till some fanatical Puritans

and choir was 70 feet, and that of the transept about 6o feet; during the Civil War tore them from the consecrated hill.

the total internal length of the church proper was about 380 There are now specimens of this thorn, which had been

feet; the western annexe consisted of an ante-church of propagated from an early period, both in Glastonbury, the

three bays, 57 feet in length, and continued from it west- neighbourhood and elsewhere ; these, produced always by

ward the chapel of St. Mary, about 55 feet long, both having budding and grafting, retain the peculiarity of the original

.a width of 25 feet, and beneath extended a vaulted crypt, thorn, viz. of flowering twice, once early and again later,

90 by 20 feet; the Norman chapel, which is the earliest but the early blooms yield no frnit.

portion of the existing remains, was built in n84-6 as an Norwood Park, I mile east, and Sharpbam Park, 3 miles

isolated rectangular edifice with a turret at each angle, and south-west, were two of the seven parks held by the abbots:

it so remained until about the middle of the 13th century; in the former, at the Dissolution, there were 8oo deer, and

it was connected with the great church by the Early English in the latter 300; at Sharpham, now occupied by Mr.George

structure then erected between the two; the chapel, which Porter, farmer, the celebrated Henry Fielding, author of

consists of four bays, is admirably built, and has four "Tom Jones," was born, 22 April, 1707; he died in I754-

Tound-headed windows on either side, enriched with zigzag At both places are some interesting remains of ancient

ornament, below these is an interlaced arcading with Pnr- mansions.

beck shafts ; the springers of the vaulting, elaborately carved, The " George Inn," near the New Cross, is a building of

remain, and there are two fine Norman doorways; the Late Perpendicular date, and was erected by Abbot Jolm

turrets are also arcaded, and have pyramidal roofs, and the Selwood about 1475, as a town guest house for pilgrims or

western turrets have newel staircases ; of the Early English visitors to the abbey.

building only one dilap~dated bay now exists, the north The "Tribunal" is an ancient building in the High street,

doorway also remaining; the noble flight of steps which led opposite to which was the ancient Hospitium to the abbey;

into the great church are entirely gone, but their abutments here, it is said, the judicial courts of the abbots connected

may be traced ; the crypt, entirely a construction of the with the XII. Hides were held.

1:5th century, was formed for the purposes of burial, and There are several mineral springs in Glastonbury whtch

was vaulted from low shafts at the sides, but Norman rise near the Tor, the waters of which were broug-ht into

materials, probably derived from buildings then in course of high repute about 140 years ago by a man named Matthew

re-erection, were largely used and ingeniously adapted for Chancellor: pump rooms were subsequently built, and for

the purpose ; the windows, very irregularly placed, are years the waters were resorted to by large numbers., and

Iheedlessly cut through the basement mouldings of the exported in considerable quantities ; but they have for many

buildings above: in 1724 the vaulting was hroken in and the years ceased to be used medicinally.
Icrypt filled with rubbish and water, but in 1826 Mr. J. F. In Glastonbury turf moor, at a varying depth of from 2

Reeves, then owner of the ruins, cleared out the interior and to 7 feet, is an ancient timber road, known as " the Abbot's
strengthened the walls of the chapel with bonding arches of way," several portions of which have been from time to time

brick ; he also renewed the steps leading down to the crypt, uncovered ; it consists of rude balks of wood, about 5 feet

and in doing so met with 18 coffins of oak containing skele- long and from 6 to 9 inches broad, placed close together

tons ; on the south side of the crypt is a passage condu(.-ting transversely, and held down on either side by rods or small

to a small arched recess, of the same date as the chapel and poles, kept in place by wooden pegs, to which they were by

containing an an(.-ient well :the portions of the great church some means attached ; the actual origin of this trackway has

now standing include part of the west front with the central not been determined.

doorway, three bays and a half of the south wall of the The Misses Emily Susannah and Eliza Mary Rocke are

nave, the eastern piers, with fragments of the arch support- ladies of the manor.

ing the tower, and attached to these large masses of the The principal landowners are James Austin esq. John

walls of the transepts, exhibiting, especially on the south Albert Porch esq. J.P. Thomas Bath and William Hrown,

.side, the details of the triforium and clerestory; five bays of Robert Neville-Grenville esq. M.A., M. I.M. E., J.P. of Hutleigb.

the south wall of the choir and part of the east wall of the Court, Capt. Thomas GoodsonJ.P. Francis Henry Dickenson

234 GLASTONBURY. SOMERSETSHIRE. [KELLY'S

esq. P.S.A., D.L., J.P. of Kingweston House, and Lady Esme Edgar King of the West Saxons, who occasionally resided in

Stuart Gordon, of Paxton Park, St. Neots, Hunts. a palatial residence there.

The area of the parish is 7,083 acres ; rateable value, Parish Clerks.-St. John's, Caleb Percy; St. Benedict's,
Charles Campbell. .
[21,979; the borough population in 1881 was 3,719, and
parish 3,828. By a Local Government Order, which came into operation
March 25, 1884, the parts of St. Benedict and St. John

The ancient tithings of EnGARLEY and WICK are in this parish outside the municipal borough were amalgamated

parish, the former having been anciently the property of with Meare and North Wootton.

Official Establishments, Local Institutions &c.

PosT, M. '0. & T. 0., S. B. Insurance & Annuity Office.- Cemetery, John George Lawrence Bulleid, High street,

John Baily, postmaster clerk to the burial board

Letters arrive at 5.50 & 8.15 a.m. & 4·5 & 5.40 p.m. De- Police Station & County Constabulary depot, Benedict street,

liveries 7 & 9.30 a. m. & 4.25 & 6 p.m. Despatched, 12.30 Capt. Charles German Alison, chief constable of the

3.25, 5, 6.50 & 7 p.m. mail. Money orders are issued & Somerset county constabulary; John Bisgood esq. deputy

paid from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m. Telegraph from 8 a.m. till chief constable ; the superintendents of the county force

8 p.m are also inspectors of weights & measures for their respec-

Letters for Edgarley, Havyatt & Wick received through Glas- tive districts ; the local force consists of I sergeant & 2

tonbury, which is the nearest money order & telegraph constables

office Prince Albert's Somersetshire Light Infantry, 3rd Volunteer

WALL LETTER BoxEs.-Lambrook street, cleared at 12 a. m. Battalion (So men, part of G Co.); armoury, High street;

3 & 6.50 p.m. ; Railway Station, at 1 & 6.30 p.m. & Clark Major W. T. Swayne, commandant; James Albert Bright,

Son & Moorland's at 10.55 a. m., 2.55 & 7 p.m acting surgeon; Rev. Charles Sydenham Ross M. A. chap-

Borough Magistrates. lain ; Sergeant Farrell, drill instructor
Town Hall, Market place

Albert William Shore Baily esq. (mayor) Upper Brue District Drainage Board, Edward Bath, Chilk-

Waiter Thomas Swayne (ex-mayor) well street, clerk

John Albert Porch esq Vestry Hall, High street, Frank Payne, keeper

Clerk to Magistrates, Edward Bath Volunteer Fire Brigade, Fire Engine Station, Vestry hall;

CORPORATION 1888-9. E. V. P. Barker, captain; W. H. Wright, engineer & 20
Mayor, Albert William Shore Baily. men

ALDERMEN. Public Officers.
I §Jn. Geo. Lawrence Bulleid
tJames Austin Certifying Factory Surgeon, Medical Officer & Public Vac-
tWalter Thomas Swayne I §Alexander Baily cinator, 3rd District, Wells Union, James Albert Bright,
High street
tJohn Baily lCOUNCILLORS.
tJohn Brock Collector of Poor & Highway Rates & Assessor & Collector of
tHenry Joseph Hanham tJohn Morland Income & Land Taxes, Henry JosephTaylor, Magdalenest

tWalter Harrison *Albert Wm. Shore Baily Registrar of Births & Deaths for Wells Sub-District & Re-
tHenry Porch *Thomas Stokes Bath lieving Officer No. 2 District, Wells Union, Robert Whitting
Fear, Magdalene street
tHenry Shore Baily *John ClarkeMills
Town Crier, John Haimes, Cart lane
tJames Albert Bright *John Albert Porch
Places of Worship, with times of Services.
Marke.i thus t retire in 1889.
Marked thus t retire in 1890. St. John the Baptist Church, Rev. Charles Sydenham Ross

Marked thus • retire in 1891,
Marked thus § retire in 1892.

MEETINGS. M.A. vicar; Rev. Henry Lowry Banwell M.A. curate; 11

Town CounciL-Quarterly meetings on the first Tuesday in a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; daily 5 p.m. except saturday
the months of February, May & August at 10 a. m. & on St. Benedict Church, Rev. Charles Grant, vicar; 11 a. m. &
the 9th November, z88g, at noon
6.30 p.m. ; during lent days, thurs. 7 p.m
Urban Sanitary Authority.-Monthly meetings on the first Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Catholic, Rev. Peter Treand
tuesday in each month, at 10 a. m
superior ; Rev. Henri Chetail & Rev. Ferdinand Boulot,
School Attendance Committee, first tuesday in each month priests ; sundays & holidays of obligation, holy com-
Auditors, John Edwards & Henry Joseph 'faylor
munion 8 & mass 10 a.m.; benediction 6.30 p.m.; daily
mass 6 & 7 a.m
OFFICERS OF THE CoRPORA'.rroN & URBAN SANITARY Congregational, High street, Rev. W. E. Francis, minister;
AUTHORITY.
II a.m. & 6.3op.m.; tues. 7.30 p.m

Town Clerk & Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority, Brethren Mission Rooms, Above Town & Lambrook street,
ministers various; 11 a. m. & 6.30 p.m
Edward Bath, Chilkwell street Primitive Methodist, North Load road, Rev. John Jones,
Treasurer, Vincent Stuckey, Langport
Collector of Municipal Rate;;, Edwin Reuben Hann, High st minister; 10.30 a. m. & 6 p.m. ; thurs. 7 p.m
Borough Surveyor & Inspector of Nuisances, George Alves, Wesleyan Chapel, Lambrook street, Rev. Joseph Higham,
minister; 11 a. m. & 6.30 p.m. ; wed. 7 p.m
Norbyn's road
Inspector of Common Lodging Houses, John Swain, Above Salvation Army, Magdalene street, n a.m. & 6.30 p.m, ;
every evening at 8 a.m
Town

Medical Officer of Health, Arthur Alex. Blakiston, 8 Park ter Schools.
School Attendance Officer, Fras. Thos. Wilkins, Norbyn's rd

Sergeants at Mace, William Young & John Rideout St. John's & St. Benedict's National (mixed & infant) with

Town Crier, John Haimes, Cart lane master's house attached to each, t.be former the gift of the

Insurance Agents. Rev. Thomas Parfitt D.D. the late incumbent; the latter of
E. Bath esq

Clerical, Medical & General Life, Walter T. Swayne St. John's National (boys),High street, erected with master's

Commercial Union, Budd & Spires, High street house, in 1865, for 160 boys & 160 girls; average atten-

County Fire, J. Godden, High street dance, 122 boys & 94 girls ; Eli Davis, mastP.r ; Miss

Economic Life, G. Dennes, 67 North Load street Jessie Macnee, mistress

Hand-in-Hand, John Brock, High street Infant, founded in 1864, for 140 infants ; average atten-

Imperial Fire, E. G. Day, High street, Street dance, 87 ; Miss Lavinia Emmeline Light, mistress

Lancashire, William Charles Leaker, Stuckey's Bank; W. St. Benedict's National, Benedict street (mixed), founded in
H. Higgins, Magdalene street
1875, for 315 children; average attendance, 200 ; William
Manchester Fire, W. H. Higgins, Magdalene street
George Cozens, master ; Miss Lucy King, infants' mist

Northern, E. Raine, Wilts & Dorset Bank 'fhe School or Convent of our Lady of the Sacred Heart,

Norwich Union Fire, J. G. L. Bulleid, High street under the direction of the Missionaries oft he Sacred Heart

Phrenix Fire, H. B. Crouch, High street of Jesus, is for boys who have a wish to become priests,

Provident Life, J. Godden, High street & is available for 37 boys
Scottish Accident, W. C. Leaker, Stuckey's Bank
Sun Fire, J. H. Hopper, Lambrook st.reet Newspaper. '
West of England Fire & Life, W. T. Swayne, High street
Westminster Fire, H. J. Tayler, Magdalene street Central Somerset Gazette, High street ; John Brock, pro-
prietor ; published saturday

Public Establishments, Railway Station.

Almshouses, Magdalene street

Assembly Rooms Company Limited, Hy. Joseph Tayler, sec Christopher Hayman, station ma..<lf.er

DIRECTORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. GLASTOXBURY. 235

Glastonbury. COM:ME RCIAL, Champion Alfred,coal dealer,Benedict st

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Adams Isaac Henry, grocer, Benedict st ChampionWilliam,shpkpr.Magdalene st
Alves George, architect, borough sur- Champion Richard (Mrs.), market gar-

Alison Capt. Chas.German,Somerset ho veyor & inspector of nuisances, Nor- dener, High street

Applin Robert, 2 Wells Road villas byn's road Chiffers Job, market grdur. Benedict st

Austin James, The Abbey Anger Mary (Mrs.),beer ret. Chilkwell st Churchill Jas. blacksmith,NorthLoad st

AustinStanley, Melrose vil. Coursingbtch Appleby Morgan Jas. butcher, High st Clark Charles & Son, chimney sweepers,

Baily Albert, Beckery .Archard George, cabinet maker, High st Benedict street

Baily Alexander, High 11treet Assembly Rooms Co. Limited (Henry Clark, Son & Morland, sheepskin rug

Baily Henry Shore, The Elms Joseph Tayler, sec) manufacturers, Northover

Banwell Rev. Henry Lowry l'ri.A. [curate Austin Stanley, solicitor, see Bath & Collyer William, watch maker & jewel-

of St. John's church] Austin ler, High street

Barker Eustace Vere Piers, High street Avalon Club & Reading Room (Henry Cooper Elizabeth (Miss), dress maker,

Bath Edward, St. Dunstan's J oseph Tayler, sec.), Silver street 1 Albert buildings, North Load street

Bath Miss, Chilkwell street Avalon Brick & Tile Co. (F. Merrick & Corp William, dairyman, 8 High street

Bath Thomas Stokes, The Hollies Son, proprietors), Wells New road Counsell John, ironmonger, Above town

Bickerdike Rev. William [Primitive Baily Albert & Co. sheepskin rug, glove Cox Elizabeth (Miss), grocer,Benedict st

Methodist], Above town & legging manufacturers, Northover Cox Frederick, shopkpr. North Load st

Bishop Mrs. 43 High street BBaaiill•yy John & Co. coal mers. Station rd Cox Henry, shoe maker, Benedictstreet
Blakiston Arthur Alex. S Park terrace Henry Shore, leather dresser, Cridland Thomas, coach builder & job-

Bond John, Station road Chilkwell street master; carriages of every description

Boulot Rev. Ferdinand [Catholic] Baily John, miller (water & steam) & built on the shortest possible notice ;

Bright James Albert, High street corn factor, Beckery mill Magdalenestreet. See advertisement

Brock John Sydney, 1 Wells Road villas Barker Eustace Vere Piers, manager of Crocker & King, boot mas. Magdalene s!;

Bulleid John George Lawrence, Mag- the Wilts & Dorset Bank, High street Crocker Edwin, shopkeeper, Here lane

dalene street Barnes Champion, ironmonger, High st Crouch Hy.watch ma. & jeweller, High st

Burnett Mrs. 75 High street Barnett Jn. cabinet ma. 18 Magdalene st Cruse Caroline & Marian (Misses),ladies'

Chamberlain Henry, High street Barnsby John, watch ma. 4S Benedict st school, Chilkwell street

ChetaH Rev. Henry [Catholic] Barrett Brothers, bakers, confectioners, Culverhouse Frank, saddler, Market pl

Colson Alfred, Station road family grocers, agents for W. & A. Curtis William, ldgng.ho. North Load st

Cooper Rev. Wm. [PrimitiveMethodist], Gilbey, wine & spirit mers. High st Day Joseph, architect, Lambrook house

Albert buildings, North Load street Bath & Austin, solicitors, Chilkwell st Down Albert, brick ma.& potter, New rd

Crocker J oseph Collings, Prospect villa, Bath Edward (firm, Bath & Austin), Down George, frmr. Cradlebridge farm

Coursing batch solicitor,town clerk,clerk to the urban Down Stephen Lovell,farmer, Coursing-

Down Albert, Above town sanitary authority, to the borough batch

Edwards Mrs. 4 Wells Road villas justices, to the Upper Brue district Duckett Geo. Lamb inn, North Load st

Fear Robert Whitting, Magdalene street drainage board & commissioner for Dunthorn Robert, tailor, Above town

Fox George, Lambrook street oaths, Chilkwell street Dyer Frank, Red Lion P.H.Magdalene st

Francis Rev. William Edward [Congre- Bath Thomas Stokes,farmr.Above town East Somerset Liberal Association(John

gational], Magdalene street Baylis Wm. Geo. watch ma. Market pl Geo. Lawrence Bulleid, agt. ), High st

Grant Rev. Chas. [vicar of St. Benedict Bennett & Smith,auctioneers & valuers, Edghill Joseph, boot manfr. High street

&rural dean of Glastonbury],Vicarage estate & house agents, 46 High street Edwards Charles, butcher, High street

Griffin Edward, High street & at Wells Edwards Henry, butcher, Benedict st

Hicks Albert, Coursingbatch Best Thomas, baker, Benedict street Edwards James, sen. cooper,Benedict st

HighamRev.Jsph.[Wes.J,Summerhouse Beswetherick John, draper & outfitter, Edwards Mary(Mrs. ), grocer &c. High st

Holman Miss, Park terrace High street England J oseph (Mrs.), miller (steam)&

Holman Mrs. Richard, Above town BigginWilham Frederick, farmer, Abbey baker, Magdalene st. & North Load st

Holman Mrs. So High street farm, Chilkwell street EvansWm.farmer,Park farm,Station rd

Hopper Joseph, Lambrook street Bisgrove Susan (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 21 Fear Robert Whitting, registrar of births

Hulbert Samuel James, Magdalene st Benedict street & deaths for Wells sub-district & re-

Jacob Robert, Above town Blakiston Arthur Alex. lii.R.c.s. surgeon lieving officer for No. 2 district of

J onesRev. J n. [Prim.Meth.],Ebenezer cot & medical officer of health to urban Wells union, Magdalene street

King Alonzo, Coursingbatch sanitary authority, S Park terrace Fisher Rachel(Mrs.),beerretailer,North

Laver Miss, Hill head BondWm.&Son,bill posters,Orchard ter Load bridge

Leaker William Charles, High street Bond Henry, shopkeeper, North Load st Fisher Richard Tilly, builder, carpenter

Lewis William, Beckery Bond Sidney John, farmer, Dod lane & undertaker, Benedict street

Merrick Mrs. 4 Above town Bright James Albert, surgeon, medical Fisher John, nurseryman, Wells Old rd

Millear Mrs. I Richmond villas officer & public vaccinator 3rd dis- Francis Charles, beer retlr.Wells New rd

Miller Mrs. Lambrook street trict, Wells union & certifying factory Francis James, l<'irst & Last P.H. North

Morland John, Northover house surgeon, High street Load bridge

Mullins Mrs. Lambrook street Brock John, printer, publisher, sta- Francis James, shopkeeper, 71 High st

Mumford Mrs. High street tioner, bookbinder, news agent & Gane Solomon, haulier, North Load st

Murch Mrs. 3 Wells Road villas proprietor of the '' Central Somerset Garrett Charles, King William inn, &

Parrett Rev. Charles Henry [Congr9oooa- Gazette," High street. See advert meeting ho. A.O.lt'. Central Somerset

tional], Lambrook street Brooks Austin Vincent, boot ma.High st lodge, 3 box ; & seedsman, Market pl

Porch Arth. Edwd. Elliott,Southfield ho Brooks F. E. boot upper manufacturer, Giblett Shadrach, dairy farmer, North
Load bridge
Porter George, Sharpham park St. John's churchyard
Brooks John, draper & outfitter, High st Gibson & Brooks,mantle & dress makers~
Raine Ernest, High street
Brown Waiter Godfrey, drpr. Market pl Manor road
Rees-Mogg Mrs. Magdalene street
Browning Jn. sbopkeeper,North Load st Gifford John, shopkpr. u North Load st
Ridout Mrs. 61 High street Budd & Spires,architects,land surveyors, Gilbert Thomas, carpenter, High street

Roach Edw. Harris, High street auctioneers, house, land & estate & Gill Henry, road contractor, Benedict st

Rocke Mrs. Chalice hill

Ross Rev. Charles Sydenham l'ri.A. insurance agents & general valuers & Gillard John, basket maker, Benedict st

[vicar], Chilk well street accountants, High street. See advert Gillingham George, butcher, Market pl

Russell Mrs. Park terrace Bulleid John George Lawrence, solicitor Glastonbury Gas & Coke Co. Limited

Scriven Mrs. 2 Park terrace & clerk to the burial board, High st (Joseph Henry Hopper, engineer k

Stacey William Robert, 5 Park terrace Bult Fras. corn. traveller, Lambrook st manager ; Edward Griffin, sec.),
Stott Mark, 2 Richm•md vls. Chilkwell st Busst Louisa. (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 44 North Load street
Glastonbury Museum, Magdalene street
Stuckey George, Lambrook street Benedict street

Swanton Mrs. High street Campbell Charles, tailor & draper, Mag- Godden Job,ironmngr.& oil mer. High st.

Swayne Waiter Thomas, Ynyswytryn dalene street Godfrey Walt.George tap,North Load st
Taylor John, 10 Above town Cantell George James,grocer, Market pl Goodall Frank, printer, bookbinder k
Treand Rev. Peter [Catholic]
Tucker Charles, Northover Cattell Robert, wheelwright,AboveTown stationer, High street
Vernon William, 4 Park terrace Goodson Jas. draper & outfitter, High sf>
Wake Mrs. 67 High street Cemetery(J ohnGeorgeLawrenceBulleid, Grant Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer,
Waiter Mrs. Above town
Welch John, New road clerk & registrar to the burial board), North Load street
Welch Miss, Lambrook street High street
Welch Mrs. 1 Park terrace Central Somerset Gazette (John Brock, Griffin Charles,grocer &butcher,High st
Wright George Whitfield, Tor house, proprietor ; publishedsaturday),High Griffin Henry, butcher, Market place
street. See advertisement
Chilkwell street Chamberlain Edward Thomas, plas- Gunston Samuel, watch & clock maker,

terer, Lambrook street jeweller & music seller, ss High st

Chamberlain Jsph. builder, Benedict st Haimes Henry William, bird & animal

preserver, Silver st

236 GLASTONBURY. SOl\iERSETSHIHE. [KELLY'S

Haimes John, town crier, Cart lane Palmer J oseph & Co. wine & spirit Toomet' John, clock maker, High street

Haimes Joseph, Globe P.H.Magdalene st merchants, High street Toomer J oseph Albert, saddler & harness

Haines J oseph, farmer, North Load st Paull John, cabinet maker, High st maker, High street

Haines William, grocer, High street Payne Francis, shoe maker, High st Toomer Louisa (Miss), milliner & dress

Hallett George, Avalon hotel Pearce Edwin, painter, Manor road maker, High street

Hanham Jsph.Hy.farmer,NorthLoadst Percy Caleb Edwin, grocer, High st Tucker Eliza (Mrs.), shopkpr. High st

HanhamRichd. Rose&Crown P .H.High st Phillips Frank, hair dresser & photo- Tucker William 'rhos. chemist, High st

HannEdwinReuben,coll. of rates, High st grapher, 19 Benedict street TullyWltr. photographer, 76 Benedict st

Harrison Walter, grocer, Market place Phillis James, chimney sweeper, North Vile James, jun. Mitre inn, Benedict st

Hawkins Hy.& Co. buildrs. Magdalene st Load street Vincent Richd. jun. earpntr. Benedict st

Hayman Christopher, stationmaster Pope Charles, boot maker, High street Volunteer Fire Brigade (Eustace Piers

Station road Porch Henry, farmer, North Load st Vere Barker, captain), Vestry hall

Helliker Joel, boot maker, Wells Old rd Porter George, farmer, Sharpham park Vowles Jane (Mrs.), laundress, 37

Higgins J oseph, boot ma. Magdalene st Prince Albert's Somersetshire Light Benedict street

Higgins William Henry, builder, con- Infantry, 3rd Vol. Batt. (part of G Waiter William, plumber, glazier, house

tractor, upholsterer, cabinet maker Co.) (Major W. 'f. Swayne; Sergt. decorator, glass, oil, color & varnish

& furniture dealer, Magdalene street. Thomas Farrell, drill instructor) merchant, 22 Magdalene street

See advertisement Rice George, nurseryman, Chilkwell st. Webb George Oram,veterinary surgeon,

Hodge William, tailor, Market place Rice Thomas, Railway hotel, good ac- 42 Magdalene street

Hulbert Saml.Jas.chemist,Magdalene st commodation for travellers, posting in White John, shopkpr. 9 North Load st

Hunt Joseph, yeoman, Lambrook st all its branches & furniture remover White Thos. Chapman, confctr. High st

Hunt Robert, farmer, Above town Roach Edward Harris, solicitor, High st. White Wm. butcheT, Wells Old road

1diens John & Som, Limited, hay &corn & at Street Wildern Susan (Miss), dress maker,

merchants, Above town Roberts Henry, shopkeeper, Chilkwellst Chilkwell street

JNGRAM .JAMES (from Fullers, Bris- Roe George, farmer, Coursingbatch Wilkins l<'rancis Thomas, borough

tol), carriage builder, 34 Benedict st. Ruddock Wm.Queen'sHeadP.H.High st school attendance officer, Norbins rd

See advertisement Russell Elizabeth (Miss), fancy reposi- Williams Charles, boot & shoe manu-

lsgrove John, blacksmith, Above town tory, High street facturer (established 1887), Jubilee

Jeffery John, railway traffic superin- Sawtell Mary (Miss), china & glass boot works, 2 North Load street &

tendent, 3 Park terrace warehouse, 26 High street 20 Chilkwell street

Keates Samuel, carpenter, wheelwright SHATTOCK ALBERT, house decora- Williams George, grocer, Benedict st

& shopkeeper, Chilkwell street tor &c. estimates given for every Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited

KingEdwin, boot ma. SeeCrocker&King description of repairs to house pro- (Eustace Vere Piers Barker, mana-

Kynaston Harry, shopkeeper, High st perty, including roofing & distemper- ger), High street; draw on London

Leaker William Charles, manager of ing, Silver street & Westminster Bank Limited, Lon-

Stuckey's Bank, High street Sheppard Thomas,dairy farmer,High st don EC

Leach Edward, George hotel. High st Sheppard Thomas, farmer, Above town Windmill John, butcher, High street

Literary Institution (Francis Thomas Sheppard William George, boot maker, Windmill Theodore, grocer & butcher,

Wilkins, sec.), High street North Load street High street

Look William Fredk. coffee ho. High st Skrine David, plasterer &slater,Higb st Windmill Wm. Dutton, butcher,High st

LovellJames,wheelwright,NorthLoad st Skrine Frederick, plasterer, High st Wright Wm. Hy. smith & machinist,

Maidment Geo. Hy. farmer,Chilkwellst Smith George Howard, hair dresser, High street

Mapstone Robt.dairy frmr.NorthLoadst Benedict street Young William, tailor, Benedict street

March Eliza (Mrs.), shopkpr. High st Smith William Henry & Son, bookstall Edgarley.
Marsh Edwin, nurseryman & farmer, Snow John & Co. coal & timber mer-

North Load street & New road - chants, Station yard Porch John .Albert J.P. Edgarley house
Marsh Eli, mrkt. gardener, Benedict st Somers John, farmer, Chilkwell street Richardson Rev. Alfred l curate of St.

Martin Wm. farmer, Nth. Load bridge Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway Cos. Benedict's, Glastonbury]

Masters Edgar, yeoman, Chilkwellst Engineers' Offices (A. Colson, engi- Bell Robert, farmer

Masters John, dairy farmer, Landmead neer), Station road Heal Daniel, dairy farmer

house, North Load bridge Somersetshire Permanent Building Heal Richard, dairy farmer

Masters John, Market House inn, Society (Edwin B. Sly, sec.), Highst Laver Edwin, farmer & cattle dealer

Magdalene street Squire Wm. tanner, fellmonger, leather Lester Thomas, farmer

Merrick & Son, ecclesiastical builders dresser, gaiter, leggings & glove Lovell Gustavus Richard, farmer

&c. High street manufacturer, Chilkwell street Limber William, farmer

Merrick John, shopkeeper, Benedict st Stephens Sidney Thomas, Glastonbury Newton Amos, farmer

Millard & Wall, auctioneers &c. ; & at Arms P.H. ; first-class house for com- Whiting Harriet (Mrs.), farmer

Weston-super-Mare. Seeadvert mercials, High street Winston James, farmer

,Miller Geo. china & glass dlr. Benedict st Stephens Vernun, calf dealer, North Havyatt.
Mills John Clarke, grocer, High street Load bridge

Mitchelmore Edward, refreshment Stokes Rchd. tailor & draper, Market pi Clark William, butcher

rooms, Benedict street Stone Joseph,ladies' school, Chilkwell st Field John, shopkeeper

Morrell James, dairy farmer, Northover Strode Samuel, tailor, Lambrook st HoddinoU Francis James, farmer

Morris Fanny, Ellen & Emily (Misses), Stuckey's Banking Co. (Wm. Charles Turner John, farmer

ladies' school, High street Leaker, manager), High street; draw. Tyrrell Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), beer retlr

Munden Fredk. plmbr.&paintr.High st on Robarts, Lubbock & Co. London Walter John, farmer

Murch Wm. Hy.ironmonger& manfr. of Swain John, inspector of common lodg- Wick.
tin &copper dairy goods, Market place ing houses, Above t<'wn

Museum of the Antiquarian Society Swant.on Henry, shpkpr. North Load st Corp Charles) farmer

(Alderman Bulleid, pres. ;--Campbell, Swayne Walter Thos. solicitor, High Corp Frederick, farmer

caretaker), Magdalene street street Corp Samuel, farmer

Nation George Eling, Crown hotel, High Tachall Jas. beer retailer, Chilkwell st Giblett Frederick, farmer

street. See advertisement Tayler Henry Joseph, collegiate school, Grant Richard, farmer ·

.Xeads Charles, grocer, & agent for W. & poor & highway rate collector & Haines Robert John, farmer

& A. Gilbey, wine &spirit merchants, asse.\'sor & collector of land & income Lintern John, farmer

High street taxes, Magdalene street Pike James, dairyman

NormanJohn Richard, brick, tile & pipe Taylor Samuel, baker, High street Roe George, farmer

maker, New road Tiley Wm. jun. painter, 40 High st Swanton Eleanor (Mrs.),farmer, North-

Oxenham Henry, Bell inn TileyWm.painter& paperhanger,High st wood park

j GOATHILL is a village and parish on the borders of the nave was re-roofed in 1878: there are sittings for 70

Dorset, 2~ miles south from Milborne Port station on the persons. The register dates from 16go. The living is a rectory,
London and South Western railway and 2 east from Yeovii, gross yearly value £98, including 17 acres of glebe, in the
in the Eastern division of the county, Horethorne hundred, gift of J. Kenelm Digby-Wingfield-Digby esq. and held since
union of Sherborne, Yeovil county court district, petty ses- 1876 by the Rev. John Stone B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin,
sional division of Wincanton, Milborne Port disLrict of the who is also vicar of and resides at Haydon, Dorset. John
rural deanery of Merston, archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese Kenelm Digby-Wingfield-Digby esq. .J.P. of 3 Westover villas,
of Bath and Wells ; the river Yeo passes through the village, Bournemouth, is lord of the manor and chief landowner.
turning one mill in its course. The church of St. Peter is The soil is limy; the subsoil is limestone. The chief
an ancient building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, con- crops are corn and meadow produce; the area is 300
sisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a western turret acres ; rateable value, £389; the population in 1881 was

containing one bell; in 1873 the chancel was restored, and 45·

DffiECTORY.] S0l\:1ERSETSHIRE. HA LSE. 237

Parish Clerk, J. Lambert. 1 a.m. Milbome Port is the nearest money order & tele-

Letters received from Sherborne (Dorset), arrive at 10.30 1Thgeracphihldorfefinceof this place attend the school at Haydon

Batch Charles, dairyman 1Foot William, miller (water) for John James Young esq

GOATHURST is a parish, 4i miles south-west from given annually in bread, left in 1831 by Mr. John Jeancs;

Bridgwater, where is the nearest railway station, in the and a lying-in charity, originated by Mrs. Escott, which

Bridgwater division of the county, hundred of Andersfield, amply provides for all occasions, and leaves a surplus for

petty sessional division, union and county court district of the aged poor annually. There is also a large building near

Bridgwater, rural deanery of Bridgwater, archdeaconry of the church, erected in I78o, affording house accommodation

Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. for five or six families, left by Sir C. Tynte for ever, at a '

Edward the Martyr is an edifice of stone in the Norman merely nominal rent. Culverwell's charity of £3 3s. yearly

style, consisting of chancel with north aisle, nave, south is for bread and clothing, also Mrs. Campbell's, value £g.

transept, south porch and an embattled western tower con- Halswell House, the seat of Col. Charles Kemeys Kemeys-

taining a clock and 6 bells : on the north wall of the nave is Tynte F.S.A., D. L., .J.P. is a fine mansion, situated in a noble

a marble monument to Sir Charles Kemeys-Tynte hart. ob. and well-wooded park of 180 acres; Robin Hood's Hut i'! an

178S, who sat as knight of the shire in seven successive ornamental structure situated in the park, from which fine

Parliaments; and another to the Rev. Sir John Tynte hart. views of the Bristol Channel and surrounding country are

some time rector of this parish, ob. August, 1743, erected in obtainable. Col. Charles K. Kemeys-Tynte D.L., J.P. is lord

1742 by his brother, Sir Charles Kemeys-Tynte hart. ~ in of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is red marl and

the chancel aisle is a monument, dated 1633, to Sir Nicholas loam ; subsoil, various. Crops are wheat, barley and beans_

Halswell kt. and family, with recumbent effigies of himself The area is 1,6o1 acres; rateable value, £2,809; the popu-

and wife, and on the sides of the tomb their children lation in 1881 was 254.

kneeling: there are sittings for 140 persons. The register Parish Clerk, Uriah Jenkins.

dates from the year 1S39· The living is a rectory, average PosT 0FFICK.-Mrs. MaryKingston, sub-postmistress. Let-

tithe rent-charge [197, net yearly value [330, including 62 arrive from Bridgwater a tth8.e30neaa.rmes.t; dispatched at t6e.l1e5
acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Colonel Charles p.m. North Petherton is money order &
Kemeys Kemeys-Tynte J.P. and held since 1871 by the Rev. graph office

Henry Brice M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. The prin-
cipal charities consist of lands left by the will of Sir Charles National School (mixed), built in 1876, for 6o children;

and Lady Tynte and Mrs. Busby, now producing about £so average attendance, 47; Mrs. W. Howard, mistress

yearly, distributed in clothing; the interest of [1oo, to be CARRIER TO BRIDGWATFJR.-Brooks, daily

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Escott William, tailor

Baker Henry John, The Grove Baker Henry John, steward to Col. C. House John, farmer

Brice Rev. Henry M.A. The Rectory K. Kemeys-Tynte J.P.,D.L. The Grove Jenkins Uriah, stone mason

Kemeys-Tynte Col. Charles Kemeys Bere George, farmer, Oakenford Kingston Mary (Mrs.), draper & grocer,.

F.S.A., D.L., J.P. Halswell house Bond Abraham, farmer, Huntstile Post office

Kemeys-Tynte Halswell Milborne D.L., Brooks William, carrier Talbot Henry Joseph, farmer, Love1ere

J.P. Halswell house Escott Charlotte (Mrs.), shopkeeper West Henry, carpenter

GREINTON is. a parish, situated on the road from eluding 9 acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of the

Glastonbury to Taunton, 6 miles south-west from Glaston- trustees of H. B. Strangways esq. and held since 1861 by the

bury, 9 east from Bridgwater, 4 south from Shapwick Rev. Robert Bruce Barter M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford.
station and 5 south-west from Ashcott and Meare stations The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor

on the Somerset and Dorset railway, in the Bridgwater and chief landowners. The soil is sand and clay, and the
division of the county, hundred of Whitley, petty sessional subsoil gravel. The chief crops are wheat, beans and barley.
division, union and county court district of Bridgwater, The parish contains 826 acres; rateable value, [1,393; the
rural deanery of Paulet, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese population in 1881 was 133.

of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Michaelis a. building Parish Clerk, Isaac Wheeler.

of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, Letters are received through Bridgwater at 7 a.m. The
nave, north porch and an embattled western tower, with nearest money order office is at Shapwick & telegraph
pinnacles, containing 4 bells : there are several stained win- office at Shapwick railway station. WALL LETTER Box

dows in the chancel and stttings for xso persons. The cleared at 5.20 p.m

soregister of baptisms and burials dates from 1728 ; marriages National School (mixed), founded in 18so, for children;

1730. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value [175, in- average attendance, 23; Miss Sophia Hawkins, mistress

Barter Rev. Robert Bruce M.A. Rectory Kelland James, blacksmith Reynolds Joseph Haine, farmer, West
Town farm
Vale Mrs Murch Albert Charles, farmer
Vale John, farmer
Burch Edmund, farmer & butcher Smith Charles, wheelwright

Chidley George, farmer

HALSE, anciently HALSE PRIORS, is a pretty village and situated in the parish, purchased with a sum of [200 given

parish, 2 miles south-west from Bishops Lydeard station, on by Edward Westcombe, merchant, of London, and distribu-..

the Watchet and Minehead branch, and 2 north-west from ted to the poor in money and kind. This manor, with the

Milverton station on the Devon and Somerset branch of the rectory, belonged in 1335 to the Knights Hospitallers, and

Great Western railway, 7 west from Taunton and 6 north- subsequently to the priory of Mynchin .Buckland, founded

east from Wellington, in the Western division of the county, by them. Richard Chandler Alexander Prior M.D., J.P. wh(}

hundred of Williton and Freemanors, Bishop Lydeard petty is lord of the manor, John Donne Hancock esq. J.P. William

sessional division, Taunton union and county court district, North Row esq. J.P. of Cove, Tiverton, Devon, and John

Wellington district of the rural deanery and archdeaconry of j Winter esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is a rich

Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. sandy loam; subsoil, marl, and produces prolific crops of

James is a small and plain structure, with details of Early wheat, beans, barley, mangolds, potatoes and turnips. The

Decorated character, and consists of chancel, nave of three I area of the parish is about 1,302 acres ; rateable value,.

bays, north aisle, south porch and a battlemented western [3,082; the population in 1881 was 404.

tower, so feet in height, with pinnacles and containing a Sexton, Charles Chilcott.

clock and S bells. The register dates from the year 16s3, PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Ann May, receiver. Letters arrive
but is very defective. The living is a rectory, average tithe
from Bishops Lydeard R.S.O. at 7.2s a.m. ; dispatched
rent-charge [113, net yearly value £135, with residence at S·SS p.m.; sundays dispatched 9.30 a.m. Bishops
and 2 acres of glebe, in the gift of Sir James Langham hart. Lydeard & Milverton are the nearest money order & tele-
and held since 188S by the Rev. Samuel Burgess M.A. of St. graph offices

John's College, Cambridge. Several of the incumbents of

this parish were presented by the priors of Mynchin Buck- Parochial School (mixed), erected in 1848 by the late

land, among whom was Thomas Hyll LL.B. Jan. 23, ISOS-6. Edward Prior esq. & endowed by him with [30 yearly-;

Here is a small chapel for Bible Christians. There are average attendance, 65 children; Mrs. Fanny Chilcott,.

charities of about £6o yearly value, arising from land mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Loney William, baker
Burrows Harry, shoe maker New inn family & commercial inn &

Burgess Rev. Samuel M.A. The Rectory Chapell Edward, farmer, Northway posting house (Robert Pratt, proprie-

Hancock John Donne J.P. Blake's house Chilcott Charles, shopkeeper tor) ; visitors will meet with home

Hearne Thomas & George, Mount house Cross Joseph, wheelwright & blacksmith comforts at moderat.e charges ; within

Prior Richard Chandler Alexander M. D., Greenway William,farmer, Manor farm 2 miles of Bishop's Lydeard & Mil-

J. P. Halse house Hutchings Job, carpenter verton stations (G- W. R)

Sutcliffe Mrs Langford Tom, blacksmith Pole & Son, thatchers & basket makers

238 HAI.SE. SOl\iERSETSHIRE. [KEL.LY's

IPalmer Grorge Wm. farm bailiff to John I Pratt Robert, see New inn Thomas James, farmer

D. Hancock esq Rockett Frank, collar & harness maker Trott John, farmer

Pratt James, baker SkinnerJames(Mrs.),farmer,Northway Watts Francis, shopkeeper, Chapel ho

HIGH arid LOW or NETHER HAM form a the Abbey of Glastonbury. The living is a chaplaincy, yearly

parish, 3! miles north from Langport station, on the Durs- value £4o, in the gift of Charles Wathen esq. and held

ston and Yeovil branch of the Great Western railway, and 5 by the Rev. Samuel Ogilvy Baker B.A. of St. John's College,

west from Somerton, in the Eastern division of the county, Cambridge. The charities are of small yearly value. The

Whitley hundred, Somerton petty sessional division, Lang- Langport Union House, in this parish, is a hexagonal build-

port union and county court district, Ilchester district of ing of white lias, erected at a cost of £g,soo, to hold

the rural deanery of Glastonbury, archdeaconry of Taunton 300 inmates. Thomas Marriott-Dodington esq. M.A., J.P.

and diocese of l:!ath and Wells. The church of St. Andrew, of Horsington House, who is lord of the manor of High

originally erected by John Selwyn, abbot of Glastonbury, in Ham; Charles Wathen esq. who is lord of the manor of

1476, is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, con- Nether Ham; Mrs. S. Reynolds, Henry Anning Gillett esq.

sisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an em- Ebenezer Barnard esq. and Josiaa Dobin esq. are the chief

battled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 5 bells : landowners. The soil is stone brash, clay; and the subsoil

the tower is much older than the rest of the building: there is blue and white lias. The chief crops are whe~tt, beans,

are several gurgoyles round the church and tower, and on barley and apples. There are orchards in this parish pro-

the latter is a small statue of the Virgin and Child in good ducing large quantit.ies of cider. The area is 4,869 acres;

preservation: the rood-screen, remarkable for its beauty, rateable value, {,6,o66; the population in x88x was x,u6,

was brought from Glastonbury abbey : there is a brass to including 109 officers and inmates of Langport Union House.

John Dyer, who built the chancel, dated 1499 : a window in NETHER HAM is a tithing of Champton hundred, Wilton

the north aisle is stained; the font is Norman and the pulpit Free Manors. The villages of HENLEY, I~ miles north,

is of stone :the church was restored in I87o and has 350 sit- PICKS HILL, 2 south, BERE, Ii north-west, and STOUT, I

tings. The register dates from the year I569, and contains south-east, are in this parish.

many curious notes in Latin. There is also preserved here Parish Clerk, Adolphus Gooding.

a description of the parish in Latin, made by Adrian Schael, PosT 0FFICE.-Robert Lavis, receiver. Letters through

who was rector of the parish in the reign of Elizabeth. The Langport R.S.O. which is the nearest money order &

living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £382, net telegraph office. Delivery commences at 7·45 a. m. & box

yearly value £450, including 130 acres of glebe, with resi- closes at 5.20 p.m. ; sundays 7-45 a.m. Postal orders

deuce, in the gift of Worcester College, Oxford, and held are issued here, but not paid. WALL LETTER Box,

since 1875 by the Rev. Charles Danvers Crossman M.A. of Nether Ham, cleared at 5-45 p.m. week days only

that college. There is a Bible Christian chapel at High Langport Union House, Rev. John Stubbs, chaplain; John

Ham, and Congregational chapels at Low Ham and Henley. Morgan, medical officer ; Charles Flack, master; Mrs.

The old school-house is now used as a parish vestry; on the Flack, matron

wall is an inscription, dated 1598. At Nether Ham is a Church of England School (mixed), built in I865, for 150

chapel dating from about 165o, and ancien1ly belonging to children; average attendance, 93; Chas. Mathams, mastr

High Ham. i Lavis Fredk. carpenter & wheelwright Tilley Joseph Burnard, farmer

Crossman Rev. Charles Danvers M.A, Lavis George, wheelwright Thyer Alfred, tailor

Rectory Lavis Rbt. grocer & whlwrght. Post off Thyer Edwin, farmer & turf dealer

Dobin Josiah Loader Henry, farmer Thyer Jane (Mrs.), King's Head P.H

Dobin Mrs Lock Newman, shoeing & general smith Thyer Robert, farmer & drillman

Gillett Henry Anning & maker of agricultural implements Travis Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Henley

Mead John Lloyd Frdk. farmr. & landownr.Henley Vigar Henry, farmeF & overseer, Henley

Paul William Bond, Wearne Wyche Lloyd John, farmer & landowner Wallis Francis, shopkeeper

Reynolds Mrs Parker George, miller (wind & steam) Windsor Joseph George, farmer

Small Grace Perren John, carpenter & wheelwright Low Ham.
COMMERCIAL. Reynolds William, farmer

Barnard Ebenezer, farmer & landowner Robins Aune (Miss), cider & beer retlr Gillett Francis, Classey house

Cockram Robert, blacksmith Rowsell Ethelbert John, farmer Horsey William, New Manor house

Cooksley William, farmer, Henley Sawtell Frank, farmer & landowner Crossman Maria{Mrs. ),shpkpr. Pick's hl

Coulin Joseph, fa1TI1er, Coy Sherrin George, butcher & farmer Gare William, farmer

Crosman Harriet (Mrs.), willow grower Sherrin Henry, farmer, Beer Horsey John, farmer

& dealer Sherrin Stawell, farmer, Henley Horsey Wm. farmer, New Manor farm

Farrow Joseph, farmer, Henley Sherrin Vile, fanner, Henley House James, dairyman

Fido Walter, baker Spearing Simon, miller (water) Phillips Nathaniel, farmer

Gooding Adolphus, shoe maker Tapseott Alfred, farmer Sherrin Alfred, farmer

Groves Theophilus, farmer Tapscott Edward, farmer, Henley Skeat James, farmer & drillman

Hodge William Davey, dairyman Tapseott Henry (Mrs.), farmer, Henley Wallis John, farmer

Keevil Charles, farmer Tatchell William (Mrs.), farmer Wallis Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer

HAMBRIDGE is an ecclesiastical parish, formed Oct. F.C.P.s. of Apsley House, Torquay, are the principal land-

II, 1844, from the parishes of BARRINGTON, CURRY RIVELL, owners. The soil is chiefly clay and sandy loam; the sub-

lLE BREWERS and PucKINGTON, parts of the extra-parochial soil, blue lias and limestone. The chief crops are wheat,

parish of Nidon, and including the whole of the ancient parish oats, beans, barley, mangolds and swedes. The area is

of EARNSHILL ; it is situated on the road from Ilminster to 3,833 acres; the population in I88x was 514.

Glastonbury, about 5 miles south-west from Langport and 5 EARNSHILL is a parish situated near the river Ile, half a
north-north-east from Ilminster, where are the nearest rail- mile west, and in the hundred of Abdick and Bulstone.
way stations, in the Southern division of the county, hun- Earnshill is a handsome mansion, in a fine park of 67 acres,
dred of Kingsbury, llminster petty sessional division, union the seat of Richard Thomas Combe esq. J.P. lord of the
and county court district of Langport, Ilminster district of manor and sole landowner. The land is chiefly in pasture.
the rural deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taunton
and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. James is The area is 357 acres; rateable value, £524; the population
in :r88I was 8.
a building of stone, in the Decorated style, erected in 1843,
and consists of chancel, nave, south porch, organ chamber NmoN, ~~ miles south, formerly extra-parochial, but

and vestry, and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, now annexed to the civil parish of Barrington, is in the

containing one bell: there is a handsome stained window : ecclesiastical district of Hambridge.

the reredos is of marble, with a rich gold cornice : the choir Pariih Clerk, William Vile.

is separated from the nave by a low screen, bearing 30 PosT OFFICE.-William Henry Oatey, receiver. Letters

lights: there are sittings for 246 persons. The register arrive from Taunton at 8 a. m. & dispatched at 5-45 p.m.;

dates from the year :1844. The living is a vicarage, tithe sundays, Io a.m. The nearest money order office is at
l'ent-charge £65, gross yearly value£270, including 6-~ acres Curry Rivell & telegraph office at Langport. Postal orders

of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and are issued here, but not paid

Wells, and held since :r844 by the Rev. Charles Stephen WALL LETTER Box at Westport, cleared at 5.20 p.m
Gru~b~r B.A. of Hert~ord College, Oxford. Here is a Bible INSURANCE AoENT.-Royal Exchange, Joseph Lang, Ham-
Chnstian chapel. Richard Thomas Combe esq. J.P. of bridge mill

lEarnshill, who is lord of the

ol.P. of Bridge House, South
Pmeathneorrt,oWn,ilsl.iaBmaBrtllaektteeessqq.. D.L., . •. . 'i
National School (mnted), ere<;ted m 1814! for ID? children,
Mrs.

Allen, Rev. .dle:xander Henry Fownes Luttrell B.A. vicar of average attendance, 73 ; Miss Mary Spiller, mistress

Minebead, and the Rev. Weston Brocklesby Davis M.A., CARRIER TO TAUNTON.-H. Brownsey, sat. only
ICombe Richard Thomau.P. Earnshill 1 Lang Mrs
Mansfield James, Hambridge farm

GrueberRev.Chas.StephenB..4..Vicarage 1 Lowman John Taylor John Gauge

JDUU:CTORY. SO]tiER$ETSHIRE. EAST HARPTRER. 239

Wyatt Edwin w1mam Davis Jsph. marine store dlr. Westport Oatey Wm. Hy. shopkeepr. fir, post office
COMMERCIAL.
Faulkner Philip, farmer Priddle John, blacksmith
Barnard John, farmer Griffin Frank, farmer Priddle Samuel, wheelwright
Bartlett William, basket maker Lawrence Geo. shopkeeper, Westport Quantock Susan (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Brister Saml. carpenter & wheelwright LloydTh()s.grdnr.to RT.Coombeesq..J.P Russell Edward, shopkeeper
Brownsey Alfred, New inn, & shirt ma Male Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Slocombe James, shoe maker
Brownsey Charles, shopkeeper, Westprt Male John, Westport inn Small John, farmer
Brownsey Wm•. beer retailer, Westport Mansfield Jas. farmer, Hambridge farm Small Thomas, farmer
Morris William, shopkeeper, Westport Woodland John, shopkeeper

HARDINGTON is a parish, 5 miles north-west from rectory, annexed to that of Hemington, joint gross yearly

Frome station on the Frome and Radstock branch of the value £6oo and house, in the gift of Lord Poltimore, and

Great Western railway, in the Ftt>me division of the co:mty, held since 1882 by the Rev. John Storey Raymond M.A. of

Kilmersdon hundred and petty sessional division, Frome Exeter College, Oxford, who resides at Hemington. Hard-

union and county court district, Midsomer Norton district ington Park, 120 acres in extent, is the property of the

of the rnral deanery of Merston, archdeaconry of Wells and trustees <>f the late W. B. Naish esq. of Ston Easton J.P.

diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary, who, together with Albin Shore Baily esq. of Manor farm,

supposed to have originally been a private chapel of the own the whole of the parish. The soil is clayey ; the subsoil

Bamfyldes, is a small building of stone, in the Norman is heavy clay and stone. The land is chiefly in pasture for

style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a small dairy purposes. The area is 853 acres; rateable value,

embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing one £972; the population in 1881 was 38.

bell: the roof was renewed in 1883: there are sittings for Letters through Frome, the nearest money order & tele-

l120 persons. The register dates from 1539. The living is a graph office, arrive at 9 a. m

Baily Albin Shore, farmer & landowner, Russell Carolina (Mrs.), farmer, Hard-, Hill Arthur, farmer, Pon:l farm
Manor farm ington Park farm

HARDINGTON MANDEVILLE is a village and and held since 1883 by the Rev. Henry Holditch Thomas

parish, 4! miles south-west from Yeovil station on the Great Cleife M.A. of Queeas' College, Cambridge. At the rectory
·western and London and South Western railways, in the is a parish room, used for meetings of various kinds and in

Southern division <>f the county, Houndsborough, Barwick winter for divine service. Here is a Bible Christian chapel.
and Coker hundred, Yeovil petty sessional division, union Viscount Portman is lord of the manor andchieflandowner.

and county •court district, Martock district of the rural The soil and subsoil are clay and loam on limestone rock.

deanery of Ilchester, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of The chief crops are wheat, barley and apples and some land

Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary is a plain build· in pasture. The area is 2,6o8 acres; rateable value, £2,674;
ing of stone, chiefly in the Early English style, consisting of the population in 1881 was 633.
chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, south porch and a Parish Clerk, William Slade.

western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 5 bells : PosT 0FFICE.-William Slade, receiver. L3tters from

the church retains a fine Norman arch and a font of the Yeovil, through East Coker, arrive at "9·45 a.m.; dis-

same period: the pulpit is Jacobean: the stained east patched at 9·45 a.m. & 4.15 p.m. North Coker is the

window, placed in 1883, is a memorial to the Rev. ·w. Vas· nearest money order & telegraph office

sail, a former vicar: the church (with the exception of the WALL LETTER Box, in Church wall, cleared 10.45 a.m. &

tower) was rebuilt in x864 and the bells recast in 1881, and 4.25 p.m
in 1885 a new clock was erected : there are sittings for 240 INSURANCE AGENT.-Prudential, Arthur Reynolds
persons. The register dates from 1687. The living is a National School (mixed), built in x86o & enlarged in 1875,

rectory, average tithe rent-charge [3o2, net yearly value for IIS children; average attendance, 87; Mril. Jane Mary
£398, including 109 acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of Sercombe, mistress

Cleife Rev. Henry Holditch Thomas Helliar Philip, baker & flour dealer Reynolds Arthur, assistant overseer;
M.A. Rectory Hodges Giles, farmer agent for Prudential Assurance &c.
Marsh George, farm bailiff to H. Par- The Apiary, West Coker hill
Read Mrs. Partway cottage
COMMERCIAL. sons esq. Bridge Close farm Sandford Henry, New ion
Matraves Thomas, blacksmith Squires Martha Elizabeth (Mrs.), grcr
Baker Henry, shopkeeper Morey Henry, tailor Strode William, farmer, Kingswood
Burt Albert, boot maker Partridge Abraham, baker Voizey Herbert, shopkeeper
Cox Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper PartridgeJoseph, beer retailer White George, carpenter
Genge Abraham, farmer, Manor farm Rendell John, shopkeeper White William, farmer
Genge Thomas, fanner RendellThomas,farmer,WhiteVine farm Wyatt Francis, farmer, Marsh farm
Hayward Edward, farmer

EAST HARPTREE is a parish and village, situated on west of the church. In ~138 it was garrisoned by Sir

the northern side of the Mendip Hills, in a rich and fertile William de Harptree in favour<Of Maud the Empress against

¥alley, on the road from Bristol to Wells and about I mile King Stephen, who, after the siege of Bristol, approached

south-east from West Harptree, 8 miles north from ·wells, and pretended to lay siege to it; the garrison, however,

5 south-west from Clutton station on the Bristol and Rad- made a sally to attack the rear of his army, which the king

stock branch of the Great ·western railway, 12 south from observing, hastened with his cavalry towards the walls,

Bristol and 17 south-west from Bath, in the Northern reaching them before the garrison could secure their retreat,

division of the county, Winterstoke hundred, Clutton union, set fire to the gates and applying scaling ladders to the walls,

Temple Cloud petty sessional division and county court made himself master of the place ; the castle was not en-

district, Midsomer Norton district of the rural deanery of tirely demolished till the time of Henry VIII. when Sir John

Merston, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Newton dug up its old foundations for the purpose of erect-

Wells. The church of St. Lawrence is a building of stone of iug a new house, called " Eastwood ;'' it was an irregular

various dates, but chiefly in the Perpendicular style, and fortification, the principal approach being from the south-

consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower west, and vestiges of a circular building are still visible;

with pinnacles, containing 5 bells, of various dates ; the on the north and east sides is a steep descent into a. deep,

oldest, clrc. (1400), bearing the following inscription:- narrow, winding glen, the sides of which a.re thickly eovered

I H E s u s - N Az AR E Nu s - R E x : with wood.

the chancel walls are Norman, but the windows are later in- Eastwood is now the seat of Charles Adams Kemble esq.

sertions: the south porch has a Norman arch, of probably M.A., .J.P.: there is a model farm on the estate.

unique design : in the south porch is an altar tomb, with the Harptree Court, the residence of William Wildman Kettle-

effigy, in armour, of Rir John Newton kt. who died 10 well esq. M.A., J.P. situated a short distance to the east of

April, 1568, and figures of his eight sons and twelve the church, is an elegant and substantial building in the

daughters kneeling, the whole beneath a canopy with an Renaissance style, with wings and a central portico, and

inscription and shield of arms : there are sittings for 280 stands in an inclosed park, ornamented with ponds, water-

persons. The register dates from 1663. The living is a falls and beautiful gardens and plantations.

rectory and vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £166, net At LAHB HILL, 1 mile south-west from the village, is a

yearly income £268, including 76 acres of glebe, with resi· very remarkable .cavern, \'lith a perpendicular shaft nearly

deuce, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held 70 fathoms deep and 240 feet in lateral extent at the ex-

since 1864 by the Rev. Charles Henry Nutt-Maekenzie M. A. of tremity: the bottom consists of loose rocks, and the roof is

Magdalen College, Oxford. The Catholic church, dedicated very firmly vaulted with limestone, and the pendent stalac~

to St. Michael and erected in x883, is a building of local tites, together with the continual dropping of the water,

conglomerate. There is a Free Methodist. chapel. The make it an object of much local interest; it was fully ex-

charities amount to about £150 yearly value. plored about five years ago by Mr. Joseph Nichols, mining

The remains of Richmond castle, the ancient fortress of agent. Lord Carlingford K.P. is lord of the manor. The

the Harptrees and Gournays, lie about half a mile south- principal landowners are Mrs. Kemble, of Cowbridge House,

240 EAST liARPTREE. SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLY's

Wilts, William Wildman Kettlewell esq. John Weaver Stal- mile east and abounding in trout: here is a grist mill~

lard esq. and Mrs. Wollen ; but many of the farmers own water and steam, occupied by Messrs. Alsop.

s.the land they farm. The soil is generally rich and light, PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

with a subsoil of red sandstone, limestone and gravel. Charles Jesse Redwood, sub-postmaster. Letters through

There is not much wood land, but the Buckley and Grove Bristol a rrive at p9._m15 a. m. ; dispatched at 3_40 p.m. & on
woods, on the estate of Mrs. Kemble, are well stocked with sundays at 3.20
game. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, and beans
and there are many orchards. There is a majority of pasture Assistant Overseer, Frank Sutton

land in this parish, the greater proportion being of excellent National School (mixed), orig-inally founded in 1653 by Sir

quality. The area is 2,770 acres; rateable value, £4,793; John Newton & supported in part by endowments of £3o

the population in 1881 was 655. from Plumley's charity & £13 13s. from Wollen's charity ;

CoLEY, partly in this parish and partly in Hinton Blewitt, it will hold 120 children; average attendance, 107 ;.

is a hamlet, through which runs the river Chew, distant I Hubertus Fenton Dubois, master

Andrews Mrs Currell George, farmer · Purnell John, carpenter
Kemble Charles Adams M.A., J.P. East-
Curtis Job, gardener to "\Villiam Wild- Russell Richard, farmer, Mendip
wood manor
Kennard Mrs. Zion place man Kettlewell esq. M.A., J.P Redwood George, estate bailiff toW. W.
Kettlewell William Wildman M.A., J.P.
Dredge Robert, blacksmith Kettlewell esq. M.A., J.P
Harptree court
Mackenzie-NuttRev.Chas.Hy.M.A.Rctry Durbin George, farmer, Morgans Redwood Charles Jesse, general shop-

Rouquet Miss Edwards Uriah, carpenter keeper & draper, Post office
StallardJohn Weaver
Taylor Francis Clement F.R.G.s. Sum- Fowler Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Proud Salmon Enoch, relieving officer, No. 3

merleaze Cross farm district, Clutton union
COMMERCIAL.
Grant Joseph, farmer, Sherborne farm Simmons Obadiah, Castle of Comfort
Alsop J oseph & John, farmers & millers
(steam & water), Coley mill Hillard John, farmer inn, & farmer, Mendip hills

Ashman Thomas, farmer, Church farm Irvine William, farmer, Hill grange Spear Michael, carpenter

Banwell ,John William, dairy farmer, Latham Frank, farm bailiff to C. A. Stallard Henry, fanner, Shrowl farm
Home farm
Kemble esq Sutton Frank, assistant overseer
Brent Josiah, mason, Shrowl
Chedzey John, carpenter & farmer Lyons Albert, beer retailer •raylor Francis Clement F.R.G.s. board-
Cole Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Coley
Lyons Joseph, Waldegrave Arms P.H ing & collegiate school, Summerleaze
Currell Anthony, yeoman
Lyons Thomas, farmer Tucker Alfred, farmer

Masters Robert, farmer, Hill farm Weaver Henry, haulier

Millard George, farmer, Coley farm Weaver John, farmer & shopkeeper

PayneEdward, carpenter Weston Annie (Miss), shopkeeper

Pickering Thomas, stone mason Wyatt James, haulier

Pool Jeremiah, stone mason, Shrowl

WEST' HARPTREE is a parish and village, situated j Prince of Wales, and held since 1871 by the Rev. George

on the road from Bristol to Wells, II miles south from Pridham, late scholar of Clare College, Cambridge. £25 is

Bristol, 16 south-west from Bath and 5 south-west from yearly distributed from Plummer's charity. There are two
Clutton station on the Bristol and Radstock extension of the manors-the Gournay Manor, of which H. RH. the Prince
Great Western railway, in the Northern division of the of Wales is lord, and the Tilley Manor, of which Francis

county, Chewton hundred, Clutton union, Temple Cloud Wheat Newton esq. D.L., J.P. of Barton Grange, near
petty sessional division and county court district, rural Taunton, is lord ;· they are also the chief landowners.
deanery of Chew, archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of Bath Gournay Manor House and 'filley Manor House, situated in
and Wells. The church of St. Mary is a building of stone in the village, are both old and interesting buildings, now con-
the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, with an arcade verted into farm houses. The soil is light, and the subsoil

of three arches on the south side, south aisle, north transept, is gravel and sand. 'fhe chief crops are wheat, beans, oats
south porch and a western tower with lofty spire containing and some land in pasture. The acreage is 2,850; rateable
4 bells : there is a fine circular font : the church was almost value, £3,791 ; the population in 1881 was 407.
rebuilt in r864 at a cost of £1,400, when the transept was Sexton, Samuel Wyatt.
added: around the church there are seven large yew trees of PosT 0FFICE.-Joseph Collins, receiver. Letters through

great age, about so feet high, each cut in a conical shape: Blagdon R.S.O. at 9.20 a.m. ; dispatched at 3.40 p.m. ;

there are sittings for 26o persons. The register of baptisms sundays 3.20 p.m. East Harptree is the nearest money
dates from the year 1656; marriages, 1655; burials, 1661. order & telegraph office
The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £290, including National School (mixed), erected in 1852, for 120 children;
20 acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of H.R.H. the average attendance, 48; Miss Gornall, mistress

Phelps Mrs Collins Joseph, baker, grocer & draper, Moon Alfred, plumber

Pridham Rev. George, Vicarage Post office Norman Mark, farmer

Wickham Mrs. Newton house Cox George Henry, boot & shoe maker Sheppard Henry, dairy farmer, White

COMMERCIAL. Dudden Rees Mogg, farmer Cross farm

1<1owerJohn,crpntr.bldr.&wheelwright Smith Henry, draper, grocer & mason

Baker Geo.miller (water),Heriott's mill Gay Benjamin, farmer & cheese maker TuckerBros.dairy frmrs.Beaconsfield h()

B(\lton & Collings, Harptree Hill farm Hassell Joseph, corn miller (water) Veater Jsph.saddler,harness ma.&farmr

Burr Eli, Crown inn Howell Henry, biacksmith Veater William, saddler & harness ma

Candy John, farmer, Shortcornbe farm King Joseph, farmer, Plummer's farm Vowles Charles, butcher & farmer

Caple Thomas, farmer, Beaconsfield ho King William, farmer, Spring farm Weeks Mark, farmer, Chancellors

Chapman George, farmer Loxton William, dairy farmer Wookey J ames, farmer

Cole Lewis, farmer, Tilly Manor farm Major Henry, Wells Way inn, & farmer Yeoman Thomas, farmer, Gurney court

HASELBURY PLUCKNETT is a parish and acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of

village, situated on the road from London to Exeter, and on Bath and Wells, and held since 1881 by the Rev. George

the river Parret, 2~ miles north-east from Crewkerne station Augustus Caley M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. There

on the main line of the London and South Western railway, is a chapel here for Bible Christians, rebuilt of stone jn 1887,

in the Southern division of the county, Hound~borough, and seating 150 persons. The only charity is one of £9
Barwick and Coker hundred, Yeovil union, Crewkerne petty yearly value, left by Mrs. Mary :Mumford, who died in 1830~

sessional division and county court district, Martock district and consists of a field, the rent of which is expended in

of the rural deanery of Ilchester, archdeaconry of Wells and repairing her tomb and in providing bread for the poor,

diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Michaelis a the latter being distributed by the vicar and church-

building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, wardens on St. Thomas's day. Here was anciently a priory

nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western of Austin Canons, founded by W. Fitzwalter in nso. Ex-
tower containing R clock and 5 bells : the north aisle, or tensive saw mills, brick and tile works have been erected

chapel of St. Walfric, is now used as a baptistery: the in the parish by Lord Portman, and are in full operation for

stained east window was given in 1872 by Mr. J oseph S. building purposes upon his estate. Viscount Portman is lord

Draper; there is another in the north aisle, placed in 1873, of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is stone brash

and one on the south side of the chancel : the carved oak and clay, and the subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat,

pulpit is a memorial to the Rev. John Hancock M.A. vicar barley, oats, beans, flax and grass. The area is 2,015 acres;.

here (186g-8I), and was erected by parishioners and friends: rateable value, £3,291; the population in 1881 was 592.

the reading desk, also of oak, was presented by his widow Pa1·ish Clerk, Barnard Dean.
and children in memory of Capt. J. N. Draper: there are
•

sittings for 554 persons, of which 398 are free. The register PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

of baptisms dates from 1650; marriages, 1673; and burials, Charles Edward March, receiver. Letters from Crewkerne

1672 ; there are also overseers' accounts from 1618. The by foot post, arrive at 8.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 8.30 a.m~

living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £276, including 7 & 4.30 p.m. Crewkerne is the ne:trest telegraph office

~!RECTORY.] SO~iERSETSHIRE. WEST HATCH. 24\

JNSURANCR AGENTS : - National School {mixed), built in 1858 at the sole expense of
Atlas Fire, T. F. Bartlett Viscount Portman, to whom a nominal rent is paid, to

Edinburgh Life, T. F. Bartlett hold ISO children; average attendance, 87; William Henry
Read, master
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Bartlett ThomasFrancis,corn merchant, Marks John, stock dealer
.Bartlett Thos. Francis, The Hermitage
Eogie David seed, cake &manure merchant, agent Osborne William, boot & shoe maker
Budge Miss, Rose cottage for Lawes' manures, agent for Edin- Patch William, miller ~water &steam),
Caley Rev. Geo. Aug. M.A. Vicarage
Hole Henry, Manor house boro'Life &Atlas Fire Assurance Cos.; corn mer. & farmer, Haselbury mills
Slade William
Smith George Hedgecombe branches, Bridport, Yeovil & Crew- Perry Charles, thatcher

COMMERCIAL. kerne ; telegraphic address, Bartlett, Pitt Henry, blacksmith

Bartlett William, baker & farmer Haselbury. Crewkerne Pitt John, blacksmith
Brooks Abraham, fanner
Brown Benjamin, boot & shoe maker Dean Barnard, grocer & draper Pitt Thomas, baker
Brown Samuel Waiter, farmer
Dowding William, farmer, Globe farm Spear John Henry, mason

Draper Paul, farmer, Pitvine farm Symes Alfred, farmer, Eastleaze

Gotherd James, farmer Symes Alfred W. D. farm bailiff to

Gregory Thomas, White Horse inn Alfred Symes, Eastleaze

Hole Henry, farmer, Manor farm Taylor Elenor (Mrs.), The Swan P.H

Long Elizabeth Ann (Miss), shopkeeper Williams Thomas, boot maker

MarchChas.Edward,grocer,& post office

·HATCH BEAUCHAMP is a parish and village, value £I8o, including 42 acres of glebe, with residence, in

-situated on the main road from Taunton to Ilminster, with the gift of and held since 1885 by the Rev. Charles Edwa.rd
a station on the Chard branch of the Great Western rail- Chard B.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Here are

way, 7 miles south-east from Taunton, 6! north-west from Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. Hache Court, a rect-
llminster, 10 north from Chard and 160 from London, in angular mansion in the Italian style, with towers at the

sothe Bridgwater division of the county, hundred of Abdick angles and an arcade on the south side, and standing in a

and Bulstone, Ilminster petty sessional division, Taunton park of acres, is the seat of William and Henry Hardstaff

union and county court district, Ilminster district of the esqrs.; and Hatch Park that of Henry Powell Gore-La.ngton
rural deanery of Dunster, archdeaconry of Taunton and esq. J.P. MrE~. Uttermare is lady of the manor. The prin-
diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. John the Baptist cipallandowners are H. P. Gore-Langton esq. J. P. Viscount
is an ancient edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, con- Portman and William and Henry Hardstaff esqrs. The soil
sisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and is clay and stone brash ; subsoil, similar. The chief crops

an embattled western tower 40 feet in height, with pinnacles are wheat and beans and grazing land. The parish contains

and containing a clock and 5 bells: in 1867 the building was :r,I2I acres; rateable value, £2,763; the population in t88t
restored, under the direction of the late Sir G. G. ScottR.A.; was 359·
the cost of the restoration ofthe tower being defrayed by the Parish Clerk, John Blackmore.

late W. H. P. Gore-Langton esq. and of the chancel by the PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

1ate Rev. William Gould; the ancient carved oak pews were Edward Pankhurst, postmaster. Letters arrive from
carefully preserved and renovated: a new organ was erected Taunton at 7 a.m. Box closes for dispatch at 9.15 p.m.
in 1875 : there are memorials to the family of Uttermare 'l'he telegraph office is at the railway station
dating from 1747 to 1752: the church has sittings for 250 National School (mixed), for So children; average atten-
persons. The register dates from the year 176o. The living dance, 68 ; Miss Phillips, mistress

is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £1oo, net yearly Railway Station, Alexander Hillier, station master

. Beadon Miss Bulpin Alfred, farmer, Rew house Holloway John, blacksmith

Blackmore Miss BulpinRichard,coal merchant & farmer, Huddy Alfd.& Son,farmers,Hatch green

Chard Rev.Charles Edward B. A.Rectory Railway station · Hunter Thomas, farm steward to Wm.

Cnrtis Rev. Edward [Baptist] Burroughs James, shoe maker & Henry Hardstaff esqrs

Gore-Langton Hy. Powell J.P. Hatch pk Chick Zachariah, wheelwright Mountstephens James, farmer

Hardstaff Henry, Hache court Chorley Mrs.miller (water),Higher mill Nash Robert, surgeon

Hardstaff William, Hache court Churchill Sl. miller (water), Low. mill Pankhurst Edward, grocer & draper

Nash Robert Davy John, farmer, Hache Court farm Post office

Parkins Misses Durman William, butcher Rails Waiter, butcher

Raban George J.P. Beauchamp lodge Grigg Thomas, farmer, Spark's farm Slade Samuel, jobbing gardener

Saul Rev. Edward William M. A. [vicar Hart Thomas, farmer, Palmers green Slocombe Charles, farmer

of Ile Abbott] Haycroft Henry, farmer Trump Henry, shoe maker

COMMERCIAL. Hill Mary (Mrs.), grocer & draper Vile Charles Every, Hatch inn, &farmer

Blackmore John, builder

WEST HATCH is a parish and village, situated on the July 10, r866, average tithe rent-charge £35, net yearly
main road from Taunton to Ilminster, about si miles south- value, £238, including 5 acres of glebe, with residence in
east from the former town and 1! west from Hatch Beau- the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Wells, and held since

champ station on the Chard branch of the Great Western t88o by the Rev. Abraham Daniel Reece Jlt.A. of St. John's

railway, in the Bridgwater division of the county, hundred College, Cambridge. The charities are of £5 2s. yearly

of North Curry, Taunton petty sessional division, union and value. There are several quarries, from which blue lias

county court district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of stone is (obtained, some of which is converted into lime.
Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. Part of Sedgemoor The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor

belongs to this parish. The church, supposed to have been and chief landowners and also lay rectors. In the lower part

dedicated in honour of St. Andrew, is a building of stone in of this parish the soil is a fine rich red loam, while the

the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel with aisles, upper part is of a clayey nature. The chief crops are wheat,

nave of four bays, north aisle, organ chamber, south porch, &c. ; beans and teazels are grown here. The area is 1,677

and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 5 acres; rateable value, £2,343; the population in 1881

bells: the church, including the tower, was rebuilt in 1861, was 481,
.and a north aisle added, from designs by Mr. E. Ferrey, the Sexton, John Forsay.

diocesan architect: there is a memorial window in the Lecthtearms pthirsotuhgehnTeaaurensttonm,oanreryivoeradter7.o2f0ficae.m&. Hatch Beau-
.chancel toW. H. P. Gore-Langton esq. who died in 1873: Hatch railway

'there are sittings for 224 persons. The register dates from station the nearest telegraph office
the year 16o6. The living, originally a chapelry, annexed

with that of Stoke Gregory to the vicarage of North WALL LETTER Box cleared at 6.30 p.m

Curry and under the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and National School (mixed), built in 1858, for So children
"Chapter of Wells, was separated and declared a vicarage average attendance, 53; Miss Watts, mistress

"Cousins Mrs Cousins Jn.Farmer'sArms P.H.& farmer Keats John, road contractor
Mead John, shoe maker, Mare green
Reece Rev. Abraham Daniel M.A.Vicarge Down Samuel, farmer & lime burner Mills George, wheelwright
Palmer Robt. farmer, Mare Court farm
COMMERCIAL. Dyer Joseph, butcher • Sheppard Arthur, farmer
Aplin Albert, farmer Sibley Jsph. lime burner & shopkeeper
Baker William, teazel grower Gollop Alfred, farmer Small Frederick, mason
Bale James, farmer, Boon's farm
Brooks Solomon, farmer Greenslade Francis Nelder, farmer Spiller Joseph H. farmer

Channing Charles, Old Orchard inn Humphreys William, tailor Turner William, farmer

Channing Job, farmer, Mare green Hurford Richard Vine, farmer

Jennings Saml. thatcher & teasel grower

Jennings William, farmer _ .

S. G. & B. 16

242 BAWKRIDGE. SOMERSETSHIRE. LKELLY's

HAWXRIDGE is a parish and village, situated on the poole annexed, average tithe rent-charge £237, joint net

top of a. hill above a. small river named the Dun, which yearly value [665, including 630 acres of glebe, with house,

divides this county from Devonshire, and flowing through in the gift of E. Newman esq. and held since 1881 by the

most beautiful woodland scenery empties itself into the Rev. Rowland Newman M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Barle, a mile and a half south-east from the church, at a The charities amoun• to {,2 13s. yearly, distributed in
bridge called Castle Bridge, which takes its name from the clothing. The Earl of Carnarvon P.c., K.P. is lord of the
ruins of the castle adjoining; it is 5 miles north-west from manor. The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Dyke Acland hart. P.C.,
Dulverton and' 9 north-east from South Molton, in the D.L., J.P. and the rector are the landowners. The soil is of
Western division of the county, hundred of Williton, petty every variety, clay excepted; and the subsoil rock, iron and

sessional division and union of Dulverton, county court manganese. The crops are mostly oats a.nd turnips. The
district of Tiverton, rural deanery of Dunster, archdeaconry area is 3,725 acres; rateable value, £1,o4x ; tP.e population
of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of in 1881 was 90.
St. Giles is an edifice of stone, in the Norman style, and Sexton, Thomas Steer.
consists of chancel, nave and an embattled western tower, PosT OFFICE.-Hannah Lock, sub-postmistress. Letters-.
containing 3 bells; the base of the tower forms the entrance arrive by foot post from Dulverton R.S.O. at II a. m.;
and has a plain Norman doorway: the font, hewn out of a dispatched at 12 noon. Dulverton is the nearest money
hlOC'k of native stone, is of the same period : there are order & telegraph office
sittings for 150 persons. The register dates from the year National School (mixed), built in 1878, to hold 30 children;.

1653. The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of Withy- average attendance, 20; Miss Mary Jane Ellis, mh;tress

• Newman Rev. Rowland M.A. Rectory Clatworthy John, farmer, Hill Westcott Mary (Mrs.) & Son, farmers,.
Bawden George, farmer, Clogs Lock William, wheelwright Shircombe

Bawden James, farmer, Hollowcombe Steer Thomas, blacksmith Westcott Richard, farmer, Zeal
Westcott Thomas, farmer, Row
Clatworthy Charles, farmer, Parsonage Tucker John, farmer

HEA THFIEI·D is a small village and parish, 2! miles dates from the year 1703. The living is a rectory, tithe

east from Milverton station on the Somerset and Devon rent-charge £2oo, gro~s yearly value £3oo, including 62

branch of the Great Western railway, and 5 west-north- acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held since

west from Taunton, in the Western division of the county, 1856 by the Rev. Edward Brian Combe Spurway M.A. of

hundred of Taunton Dean, Bishops Lydeard petty sessional Trinity College, Cambridge. Mary Cornish, who died in

division, Taunton union and county court district, Welling- 1877, gave /,2oo, the dividends to be given to four old men

ton district of the rural deanery of Taunton, archdeaconry and four old women, chosen by the rector and church-

of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of wardens. F. G. Bernard esq. is lord of the manor and

St. John is a building of stone, chiefly in the Early English principal landowner. The chief crops are wheat, barley,.

style, consisting of chancel, nave, south chapel, south porch beans and turnips. The acreage of the parish is 683; rate-

and a western tower containing 3 bells: in 1870 the nave, able value, £1,141; the population in x881 was 102.

chapel and porch were restored and three new windows Parish Clerk, Richard Brown.

added; most of the windows are of Late Decorated lchar- Letters are received through Taunton at 7 a. m. Milverton

acter; the east window is stained : in a recess in the north is the nearest money order office. The nearest telegraph

wall of the chancel is a good illuminated mural monument offices are at Milverton & Norton Fitzwarren. WALL

with male and female kneeling effigies in Tudor costume, LETTER Box cleared at 8 a.m. & 6.50 p.m. on week days

and a Latin inscription now almost illegible: the ancient only

pulpit is of oak quaintly carved: the font is modern Per- The children of this village, which is included in the Hill-

pendicular: there are sittings for 120 persons: in the church- farrance United School Board, district, attend the Board

Iyard stands a large part of an ancient cross. The register school at Oak

Spurway Rev. Edward Brian Combe Hammett William, farmer, Webb hill 'I Norman Christopher, farmer, Heath-
H.A. Rectory Lachbank Benj. blacksmith & wheelwt field house

HEMINGTON is a large parish and village, 121 miles about 1780, a sum of 25s. yearly to be distributed in bread

from London, 3 ee.st-south-east from Radst(lck station on at Chrietmas. Waiter Cox Vallis esq. who IS lord of the
the Great Western and Somerset and Dorset railways, and 6 manor, Lord Hylton, thQ Rev. Charles Peacock and John

north-west from :Frome, in the Frome division of the county, Turner esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is heavy

Kilmersdon hundred and petty sessional division, Frome clay ; subsoil chiefly stone. The land is chiefly in pasture

union and county court district, Midsomer Norton district for dairy purposes. The area is 2,877 acres; rateable value,.
of the rural deanery of Mer:;~ton, archdeaconry of Wells and £3,521; and the population in 1881 was 591.
diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary is an Sexton, Thomas Weaver.

ancient building of stone, consisting of chancel with vestry FAULKLAND is a hamlet, a mile and a quarter north-east

on the north, nave, transept, south aisle, with an arcade of from the church, with a Wesleyan chapel. LowER Row is
four arches on circular piers, south porch and an embattled another hamlet, 2~ miles east; here is a Baptist chapel.

western tower, with pinnacles, in the Perpendicular style, Letters for Hemington arrive through Bath via Norton St.
containing 5 bells ; the east end of the south aisle, once a Philip & are delivered at 8 a.m. & 6. 30 p. m. WALL

private chapel, is now used as an organ chamber: the LETIER Box, cleared at 6.50 p.ni. week days only.
church was restored in 1859, under the superintendence of Letters for Faulkland & Lower Row arrive via Frome ~

the late Sir G. G. Scott R.A. at a cost of £700; during the are delivered at g.2o a.m. WALL LETTER Box cleared at

restoration a very fine Norman arch was discovered at the 4·45 p.m. Radstock is the nearest money order & tela-
entrance to the chancel; and in x862 the chancel was restored graph office for Hemington & Faulkland; & Road for the

at the cost of the rector: there are sittings for 200 persc.ns. Lower Row

The register dates from 1539. The living is a rectory, with A School Board of 5 members was formed September 5·

that of Hardington annexed, joint gross yearly value £6oo, 1881, Thomas Cradock, jun. clerk to the board & atten-

including 84 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of dance officer
Lord Poltimore, and held since x882 by the Rev. John Storey Board School (mixed & infants), erected by subscription in
Raymond M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. There is a Primi- 1875 & transferred to the School board in r88r : it will

tive Methodist chapel, built in 1869, and a United Methodist hold 150 children; average attendance, 106; James J.

chapel, erected in 1875. There are charities of £zo yearly Sheppard, master

value, left in 1694 by the Bampfylde family, to be distri- CARRIER TO BATH & FROME.-Henry ·weaver, sat. & wed.
buted amongst the poor at Christmas. Mr. Vigor gave, returning same day

Hemington. COMMERCIAL. Grist Eli Bourne, farmer & thrashing
Raymond Rev. John Storey M.A.Rectory
Vallis Waiter Cox, Manor house Abraham ·Francis James, New inn machine proprietor
Cradock Thos.sen.farmer,Haywood frm Armstrong James Dovell, farmer, Horwood Job, farmer, Upper row
Hobbs Alfred, stone haulier Matiick Elizabeth (Mrs.), dairy farme •
Morrish Thos.farmer, High Church frm Upper row Pickford Henry, farmer,Chic·kwell far111
Pool Thomas, farmer, Kingman's farm Bazley Thomas, veterinary surgeon Rapps Elijah, farmer, Horse Pond farn,
Vallis Waiter Cox, farmer &landowner, Bolwell Charles, beer retailer Tilley Rd. boot & shoe maker & shopkpr
Craqock Thomas, jun. farmer & assist. Turner John, farmer, Faulkland farm
Manor farm "\\·eaver Henry, farmer & carrier
overseer, & clerk to the school board Wilson Waiter, farmer, Lower row
Faulkland. Dampier John, Tucker's Grave inn Windell John, dairy farmer, Lower row
Davis Samuel, farmer
Weeks John C Grist Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper

HENS TRIDGE is a village and parish trltuated on the Wincanton, II4- from London, in the Eastern division of th(;.
river Stour and intersected by the high road from London county, Charlton Horethorn hundred, Wincanton pett)
to Exeter, on the Dorset border of the county, with a station sessional division, union and county court district, Milborn£'
on the Somerset and Dorset railway, 7 miles south fr(lm P01t district of the rural deanery of Mers1on, archdeaconry

JDIRECTORY. . SOMERSETSHIRE. -BENTON. 243

of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Wesleyan chapel at Yenston. There are charitie$ of £7 xc1.

Nicholas was rebuilt, with the exception of the ivy-covered yearly value. Leather gloves are made here. Jnwood is tpe

tower and a portion of the north and west walls of the north seat of Thomas Merthyr Guestesq. J.P. and Lady Theodora

aisle, in 1873, at a cost of [3,235; the material used being Guest. John Kenelm Digby Wingfield-Digby esq. J'.P. of 3

local forest marble, with Doulting stone dressings, a south Westover villas, Bournemouth, who is lord of the manor, Sir

aisle and porch being added ; the former in the Middle Edward Bradford Medlycott bart. J.P. of Ven House,

Pointed or Decorated style : the church now consists of Milborne Port, and Thomas Marriott-Dodington esq. M.A.,

chancel, with north aisle, organ chamber on the south J.P. of Horsington House, are the principal landowners.

side, serving also as a vestry, nave of five bays, aisles, south The soil is loamy, and the subsoil is limestone. The land is

porch and a western tower, with stair turret, containing a chiefly used for dairy purposes. The area is 3,073 acres;

clock and 5 bells ; the Perpendicular chancel aisle retains a rateable value, £9,077 i the population in x88x was 1,299·

tine altar-tomb, with two mutilated recumbent effigies re- YENSTON, I mile north, WHITECHURCH half-a-mile north,
presenting William and Margaret Carent, and is dated 1463 ; and BownEN, xt miles north-west, are hamlets.

and in the north-west corner is a carved canopy; the Parish Clerk, Robert Rogers.
moulded chancel arch is of lofty proportions and springs

from corbels of Devonshire marble and Bath stone, richly PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

carved ; the ancient Perpendicular font has been restored Robert Rogers, receiver. Letters arrive from Blandford

and placed in the lower stage of the tower, which forms a & Bath, from the former place at 7.50 a.m. & xo a.m.;

baptistery, and is lighted by two small lancets filled with sundays 7.50 a.m.; dispatched via Bath .S p.m. & 7·55

stained glass ; two windows in the chancel are also stained : p.m.; sundays 5 p.m

there are sittings for 440 persons. The register dates from WALL LETTER Box, Yenston, cleared 4.30 p.m. week days

the year x653. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent- only

charge [427, net yearly value [300, with house, in the gift National Schools (mixed), erected in 1872, at a cost of about

of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held since x883 by the £x,3oo, for 216 children; average attendance, 185 ;

Eev. Arthur Giro Dowell x.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Thos. Chas. Pain, master; Miss Ellen Linda Hacker, mist

There are Wesleyan and Congregational chapels here, and a Railway Station, Frederick Hayter, station master

Andrews Mrs Costello Wm. glove agent, Whitchurch Hunt James, farmer, Yenston

Antell Edwin Davis Jas. contractor & coal merchant J effereys J ames, farmer I
Bugg Mrs Davis Richard, farmer, Whitchurch Jonson Elias, farmer, Park lane

CoombsJames Davis Samuel, baker Knott Herbert, saddler & furniture

Coombs Mrs Day Jesse, farmer, Bowden dealer ; branches at Stourminster-

Dowell Rev. Arthur Giro M.A. [vicar] Dewfall William, baker & grocer Newton &Bishops-Caundle, in Dorset

Guest Thomas Merthyr B.A., J.P. & Drew John, dairyman, Yenston Lodderd James, farmer, Whitchurch

Lady Theodora, Inwood Dunstone J ames, grocer Lovelace Robert, machinist

Lemon Thomas, Roundhilllodge Dyke Richard, farmer Lovell George, fanner

Lock George Eavis Edwd. beer ret. &butcher, Yenstn Martin Samuel, l<"ountain inn

Luffman William • F~h Frederick Thomas, beer retailer Moorse Emily (Miss), shopkeeper

Viner Henry Wm. Henstridge house £<"lower Henry, baker, Whitchurch Mullett Eli, thatcher

COMMERCIAL. Foot John, farmer & cattle dlr. Yenston NorrisWm.&Edwd.Reuben,wheelwrghts

Abbott Jesse, farmer, Basland hill Frizzell J esse, farmer, Marsh Nurse Francis, farmer, Quiet corner

Andrews James, butcher Frost Samuel, dairy farmer & butcher. Parsons Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Bastable Waiter, farmer Whitchurch Pickford Josiah, farmer, Pond farm

Belbin William, farmer, Marsh Green J ames, farmer, Marsh Public Coffee Rooms (George Burgess,

Benjafield Allen, farmer Green Thomas, farmer, Marsh manager)

Bishop Matthew, blacksmith Griffin Rester (Mrs.), beer retlr. Yenston Read James John, saddler & harness

Biss George, farmer, Yenston Gulliver William, beer retailer maker & assistant overseer

Bond Mary (Miss), draper Hall Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Marsh Reading Roomi (H. Knott, sec) ,

Bugg Francis, farmer, Toomer Hannen George, farmer Roberts Thomas, farmer, Townsend

Bugg Wm. (Mrs.), farmer, Coppice ho Hannen William, farmer, Lower Syles Rogers Joseph, corn miller (steam &

Burge Job, mason Harris Edwin, grocer water), Henstridge mills

Burt Henry, shoe maker Harris Henry, farmer, Bowden Rogers Robert, grocer, bookseller & sta-

Butt William, farmer, Syles Harris Henry, stud groom to T. M. tioner, & agent for W. & A. Gilbey,

Case J ames, carpenter Guest esq win~ & spirit merchants, Post office

Case William, farmer Haskell William, grocer & baker ScammellLeonardScott,frmr.Whtchrch

Clark Charles, farmer Hill Albert, farmer, Bowden Snow John & Co. (Geo. Warren, agent),

Cockerell George, baker Hooper Asher Osborne, farmer,Yenston coal merchants, Railway station

Collard Henry, farmer, Noon's park Hooper Joshua, farmer, Yenston Vercoe Thomas, farmer & quarry ouwmner

Collard Jn. dairy farmer, Noon's park Hooper William, farmer Wilkins Thomas Andrew, head gardener

Coombes Josiah, carpenter How Thomas, Old Ash & Virginia hotel to T. M. Guest esq

HENTON is a hamlet and was formed into an ecclesias- Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held since x889 by the ReY.

tical parish from the civil parishes of Wookey and Meare, John William Morris M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford.

July 3, 1848, 3 miles west from Wells and 3 west-south- The Bible Christians have a chapel at Bleadney, erected in
west from Wookey station on the Cheddar Valley branch of 1838. The principal landowners ~re Lord Brougham and
the Great Western railway, in the Wells division of the Vaux, John Salmon esq. and Robert Salmon esq. The soil
county, hundred of Wells Forum, petty sessional division, is various; subsoil, gravel and on the north-west peat. The
union and county court district of Wells, Axbridge district land is mostly in pasture. The population in 1881 was 490.

of the rural deanery and archdeaconry of Taunton, and Parish Clerk, John Hurd.

diocese of Bath and Wells. Christ church, erected in 1847, Letters through Wells, which is the nearest money order &

is a tuilding of stone, in the Early English style of the 14th telegraph office arrive at 7.40 a m. WALL Box, cleared

century, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a at 5·35 p.m. week days only

western bell-cot containing one bell: therearesittings for 308 Board School (infants), erected in 1879, for 50 children;
persons. The register dates from 1848. The living is a average attendance, 3I ; :Mrs. ~tott, mistress. The elder
per{letual cnracy, gross yearly value [286, in the gift of the children attend the school at Wookey

Horsington Miss Crossman John W. wheelwright, car- Loxton George (Mrs.), farmer
MorrisR' ev. John Wm. M.A.[incumbent] penter & smith, Yarley
Lumber Thomas, farmer, Callow hill

Stott wrs. Yarley Davis "'illiam, farmer, Yarley Mapstone James, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Giblett John, farmer, Bleadney Masters Charles, farmer
Godfrey Samuel, cooper, Bleadney Masters Mary(Mrs. ),shopkeeper,Yarley

Adlam George, farmer Hill John, cattle dealer & farmer Norman John, farmer

Bartlett Edward, farmer HorsingtonWm. Piccadilly inn, Bleadney Salmon ~idney, farmer, Leaze farm

Hiss George, farmer, Yarley Hurd John, carpenter & parish clerk Savage John, farmer & shopkeeper

Biss Wm. farmer, Reed farm, Bleadney Hurd John, jun. farmer &carpenter Savage William, yeoman

Bryne John, farmer Hurd Wm. farmer, Longstring farm Savage William, jun. farmer, Yarley

Carver Edwin, farmer Latcham Edwin, tailor Sealy Joshua, boot & shoe maker

Clarke Richard, farmer Laver Edward, blacksmith, Bleadney SealyWm. farmr.Marehy farm, Bleadncy

Cook Robert, butcher, Hleadney Lavis Henry, grocer, carpenter &c Shingleton Edmund, farmer, Bleadm:y

Crossman Charles, Punch Bowl P.H Lewis Anne (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Yarley Singleton 'faylor, beer retailer

S. G. & B. 16*

244 HIGHBRIDGE. • EOMERSETSHIRE. [KELLY's

Steeds Joseph, farmer, Yarley Stott Hester (Mrs.), farmer Stott William, farmer, Ripple
Stott John, farmer Watts John, dairyman, Callow hill
Stott Charles, farmer
Stott Frederick, sen. farmer

HIGHBRIDGE is an important and flourishing town both markets are well attended and considered among the

in the civil parish of Burnham, situated on the northern largest in the west of England. At the Railway hotel a

side of the river Brue ; it was formed into an ecclesiastical Masonic lodge, No. 291, is held monthly ; also the Royal Arch

parish Aug. 28, 186o, and is 1! miles south-east from Chapter 291 (quarterly). The Patriarchs' Benefit Society

Burnham, 10 south from Weston-super-Mare, 147 from hold quarterly meetings at the George hotel, and has 6o

London and 12 west-north-west from Glastonbury, with a members. The soil is principally used for grazing, some

station on the Bristol and Exeter section of the Great small portions being under cultivation. The area and rate-

Western railway, and a junction station of this line with the able value are included in Burnham; the population in 1881

Somerset and Dorset railway; it is in the Wells division of was 1,582.

the county, hundred of Bempstone, petty sessional division WALL Row, I mile east, and WATCHFIELD, 2 east, are

and union of .Axbridge, county court district of Weston- within this ecclesiastical parish.

super-Mare, Burnham district of the rural deanery and Parish Clerk, James Coram.

archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells. PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

The river is navigable to this place for vessels of 750 tons Henry James Channon, postmaster

burthen. The communication by railway and the river has DISPATCHES.

made this place prosperous, and its trade is gradually in- All parts (Bridgwater excepted), 10.25 a.m. & 12.55 p.m. ;

creasing. A company was formed in 1878, with a capital North Mail, 5.29 p.m.; General Post, 8.18 p.m

of [.3,5001 for lighting the town with gas, and in 1886 water London late, Bristol late, nort.h midland & eastern counties
works were erected at a cost of letters are received at 7.15 a.m. through the travelling
£1,000, and are under the
control of the Axbridge Rural Sanitary Authority. The post office

church of St. John the Evangelist was erected in 1859 at a DELIVERIES.
cost of £4,440, by Mrs. Luttrell, of Badgworth Court, who II 5.15 p.m. Rural
also endowed it with £3,400: it is a building of stone in the 6 a.m. Rural 6.35 p.m. Town
7 a.m. Town
Early English style, consisting of chancel with aisles, nave 12.25 p.m. ,

of six bays, aisles, north and south porches, and a tower Letters posted by 10.25 a. m. mail are delivered in a great

with tiled octagonal spire, containing 5 bells : the pulpit many towns the same day, including Birmingham,

and font are of Bath stone inlaid with mosaics : the east and Cardiff, Newport, Gloucester, London, Taunton, Exeter

west windows are stained : the choir stalls are of carved & Plymouth

<lak : in 1883 a south aisle was added by public subscription, Telegraph Office open on week days, from 8 a. m. to 8 p.m. ;

at a cost of [.900: the church will seat 500 persons. The on sundays, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m •

register dates from the year 1859. The living is a vicarage, Money Order, Savings Bank, Government Annuity&Inland

.gross yearly value £300, including 31 acres of glebe, in the Revenue business transacted from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m

.gift of trustees, and held since 188o by the Rev. Waiter INSURANCE AGENTS :-

Westmacott B.A. Exeter College, Oxford. The Wesleyan Accidental Death, J. Bm'nett & Co

_chapel, opened in April, 1865, and enlarged in 1888 at a British Plate Glass, Palmer & Stiling

,..cost of £4oo, is a building of stone, with Bath stone dress- British & Irish Plate Glass, T. F. Norris

ings. Here is also a Baptist chapel, erected on the site of Commercial Union, J. Charlton, Market street

a previous structure. A Cemetery of 2 acres was formed Employers' Liability &Workpeople's Provident & Accident,

in 1885 at a cost of £5oo, and is under the control of a T. F. Noms

- burial board of 7 members. A spacious Town Hall was General, T. Hargrave, Railway station

erected in 1885 by the Highbridge Market House Company Imperial Fire, J. Wall

' Limited, and is capable of seating 6oo persons : the magis- Liverpool & London & Globe, Palmer & Stiling

trates hold their meetings here : for list of magistrates and London, Burnett & Co

places in the division see Axbridge. The timber yards Northern, F. Moss & Co. Market street

. and saw mills of John Bland and Co. are of considerable Norwich & London Accidental, Hugh MacMurtrie

extent. The Somerset and Dorset joint railway Com- Norwich Union Fire & Life, Palmer & Stiling

pany have extensive locomotive works here, employing Scottish Accident, Palmer & Stiling & T. F. Norris

- upwards of 250 men. Brick and tile making are carried Scottish Widows' Fund, J. Burnett & Co

on, the principal works being those of Mr. A. G. Pitts. West of England Fire & Life, J. Burnett, jun

· There are also spacious coal yards here, that of Mr. 'f. F. PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of Services:-

- Norris having a wharf where ships of 150 to 200 tons St. John the Evangelist Parish Church, Rev. Waiter West-

burthen load and unload coal, salt, cake, bricks and tiles, macott M.A. vicar; Rev. Charles Henry Jones Wilton,

. and a siding on the Somerset and Dorset joint railway ; Mr. curate; 8 & II a. m. & 6.30 p.m. On saints' days matins

Richard F. Channon's coal wharf has also direct connection & ante-communion, service, II.15 a.m. & 7 p.m

with the Somerset and Dorset line; Mr. A. G. Pitts and Baptist, Church street; Rev. George Heatt Lemon, minis-

Mr. Guy Hodges have also coal yards. The Highbridge ter; II a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; mon. & thurs. 7.30 p.m

.Bacon Company was formed about 1889 with a view of Wesleyan, Church street; Rev. Thomas Dilks, minister;

establishing a bacon factory at or near Highbridge ; the 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; mon. & wed. 7 p.m
~apital of the company is [25,ooo, in £5 shares. The Brethren's Mission Room, Newtown, II a. m. & 6.30 p.m.;
chief hotels are the "Railway," the "George," the tues. & thurs. 7.30 p.m

"Coopers' Arms," and the Highbridge inn. Stuckey's National School (mixed),erected in 1861-2 for 270 children;

Bank, situated in the centre of the town, is a hfl.ndsome average attendance, 260; James Wood, master; Miss

building of red brick faced with Ham Hill stone, erected in Ada Phillips, mistress

1877, and has a residence for the manager adjoining: at- RAILWAYS:-

tached to this office is a -sub-branch at Burnham. There is Great Western, Thomas Hargrave, superintendent

a good market-house for cheese and dairy produce, the Somerset & Dorset, William Wilson, superintendent ; goods

market being held on the 1st Monday in every month. The department, Henry Bastard

cattle market for about four months is held weekly, and at CARRIERS.-J. C. Wall, of Great Western railway; Alfred

.9ther times on the first and third Monday in every month ; Peace, of Somerset & Dorset joint line

Highbridge. Wilton Rev. Charles Henry Jones B.A. Channing Edwin, beer retailer

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. [curate], The Elms Channon Henry James, stationer, Post
Withers Amos, Bertha terrace office, Market street

:Brooks Mrs. Ashley house COMMERCIAL. Channon Richard Fiunimore, coal, coke

.Brooks Mrs. Bristol road BakerDavid,beer ret.&haulier,Church st & salt merchant, Railway coal wharf,

.Burnett John, Island house Baker Thomas, farmer S. & D. Goods yard. See advert

<Coram James, Church street Beale Abel, grocer, High street Charlton John, grocer, Market street

Hicks Henry, The Grange Board Benj. Corner, solicitor, High st Clemetts John, carpenter

Kinsey Miss, Chesnut villa Bradshaw Henry, beer retailer Collyer Bessie (Mrs.),shopkpr.Newtown

Lemon Rev. George Heath [Baptist], Brice Richard, solicitor ; & at Burnham Collyer Thomas Robert, watch maker

The Clyce Brooks George, farmer Coombes William, grocer, Church street

MacMurtrie Hugh, Stuckeys Bank BudgeJohn,shoe&genl.smith,Church st Cooper Margery (Miss), confectioner,

Marsh William, Sycamore house Burnett John & Co. wine & spirit mers Church street

Pitts Arthur George, The Firs Came Edwin, shopkeeper, The Clyce CoozeHy.Chas.fncy.repository,Market st

Pitts Frank, Church street Card Robert Bagg, Coopers' Arms hotel Cox William, general decorator, painter,

Railton Thomas, Church street Cemetery (Chapman & Bishop, clerks glazier, upholsterer & picture frame

Wade Reginald, Southwell house to the burial board ; Thomas Floyd maker & paperhanger & sanitary engi-

Westmacott Rev. Waiter B.A. Vicarage Norris, superintendent} neer, The Elms, Church street

DffiECTORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. BINTON BLEWETT. 245.

Cox Charles & Son, ironmongers MacMnrtrieHugh,mgr.ofStuckey'sBank Stevens John-, George family & com-

Cox Thomas, brick merchant, Church st Maggs Wm.Henry,com. trav.Laurel cot mercial hotel, High street

Crandon Catherine(Miss), music seller, Marsh Elizabeth (Mrs.), china ware- Stinner John, shopkeeper

Church street house, Church street Talbot James, farmer, Isleport farm

CrandonWm.Reynolds,coopr.&brush ma Marsh Robert, contractor & builder Thompson & Collins, cheese merchants

Creamer William, shopkeeper,Newtown Marsh William, builder, Church street Tiley Chas. beer retlr. & baker,New twn

Curry George, boot & shoe maker Mildon Francis, Market house keeper, TozerJohanna (Mrs.), beer retlr.Newtn

Dare James, printer, Church street Market house Tucker Rd. Hy. blacksmith, Church st

DauntonEdmund,farmer,Worston farm Moss Fredk. & Co.cheese fctrs.Market st Tyler John, ironmonger, Market street

Daunton Fredk. farmer, Bristol bridge Moss Joseph, corn merchant, Market st Vincent William, beer retailer

Daunton Robert, yeoman, The Poplars Mulford Joseph, coach & carriage Wade Reginald M.R.c.s. surgeon, medi-

DavisArthurEdwd.hair drssr.Church st builder, Church street cal officer & vaccinator for No. IO

DayMary(Mrs.),diningrooms,Marketst Norris Thomas Floyd, coal, coke, brick Burnham district, Axbridge union,

Day Reuben, dining rooms, Market st & tile & salt merchant & linseed & Southwell house

Dyer Frederick, beer retailer, Newtown cotton cake, & stoneware drain pipes Wells George, farmer, Isleport

DyerMy.Jane(Miss),dress ma.Church st & sanitary warehouse & implement Wells Horace, butcher, Church street

Dyer Thomas, seedsman, Church street agent &agentfor the West of England Wescott William, shopkeeper, Market st

Emery Jabez,grocer & draper, Church st Sack Hiring Co West of England Sack Co. Limited

Evans Thomas, baker, Market street Padden WilliamJn.Somerset Arms P.H (Thomas Floyd Norris, agent)

Fisher Albert Edwin, draper, Market st Palmer & Stiling,auctioneers,architects, Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited

George Eliza (Miss), ladies' school surveyors, valuers, house, land, estate (agency) (open every monday),

Grant Alfred, farmer & cattle dealer, & insurance agents ; & at Burnham Market street; draw on London &

Sandaway farm Pearce Alfred Waiter, tailor & draper, Westminster Bank Lim. London B c

Hadwen Waiter Robt.chemist,Market st orders promptly executed; lvy Withers Frank Anthony Edward, fancy

Hale Francis Richd. coal mer. Church st house, Church street baker & confectioner, Market street

Hamilton Eliza (Mrs.), dress maker, Pitts Arthur George, potter, brick & tile Withycombe Albt.Came,Highbridge inn

Bridgend cottage manufacturer & coal, salt & linseed & Young Men's FriendlySociety,Church st

Harden Nathaniel, grocer, draper &c cotton cake merchant. See advert Watch:field.

Higgins Joseph, tailor, High street Poole J. Ruscombe & Son, solicitors; & •

Highbridge Bacon Co. Limited (Thomas at Bridgwater & Weston-super-Mare Arney Edward, farmer

Floyd Norris, sec) Poole Jas. farmer & cattledlr. Rose cot Arney John, farmer

Highbridge Cattle & Stock Market Co. Porter William, shopkeeper, Church st Bird William, blacksmith

(J. Ruscombe Poole, sec) Prince Albert's Somersetshire Light Ham William, farmer

Highbridge Gas Co. (Tbos. F.Norris, sec) Infantry 3rd Vol. Batt. (part of A Co.) Hill William, farmer

Highbridge Market House Co. (Alfred (Major Elliott Armstrong) Moon J<'rederick, fa1n1er

Evered Burnett, sec) Quier John, butcher, Church street Popham Wm. road contractor & haulier

HighbridgeWaterWorks(Wm.Reece,sec) Rice Robert, confectioner Puddy Michael, farmer

Hill John, farmer, Poples Ball farm Roberts Fanny Emily (Mrs.), draper & Spearing John, miller (water)

Hodges Guy, coal merchant, High st milliner, Church street Whitting Sarah (Mrs.), farmer

Holmes Jas. draper & grocer, Church st Roper Frank & Charles, mechanical Wall Row.
Home Geo. builder, contractor, cabinet engineers & millwrights

maker & undertaker, The Clyce Rudd Thomas Wm. butcher, Market st Gatcombe Miss

Jennings Charles, saddler, Market st Rushen Geo. watch maker, Market st Amesbury Mary Ann (Miss), farmer

Kellaway William, Railway family & Sanders James & Co. watch & clock Baker Charles, beer retailer

commercial hotel & posting house makers, Church street Durston Charles, timber merchant

Kinsey Henry, farmer, Worston Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway Co.'s I<'rench James, carpenter

Knight Thos. boot & shoe ma. Church st locomotive works Heal Jesse, farmer

Langport & Mid-Somerset Benefit Build- Sparks Thomas, butcher, Market street Heal John, farmer, Yew Tree farm

ing Society(Hugh MacMurtrie, agent) Stuckey's Banking Co. (branch) (Hugh Heal Joseph, farmer, Ash house

Lawrence Daniel, farmer 1 Mac Murtrie, manager); draw on Lee James, dairyman

Lewis JoSE.>ph, boot & shoe ma. Market st Robarts & Co. London Salvidge Frank, farmer

HILLFARRANCE is a small village situated on the formerly held by William de Vemai : the several owners of

river Tone, 3~ miles north-east from Wellington station on estates in the parish are now possessed of the manorial

the main line of the Great Western railway, and 4f west rights over the same. The principal landowners are William

from Taunton, in the Western division of the county, Ayshford Sanford esq. D.L., .J.P. of Nynehead Court, and

hundred of Taunton Dean, Taunton petty sessional division, Lord Ashburton. The soil is generally a strong clay; sub-
Wellington union and county court district, Wellington soil, marl ; and produces excellent crops of wheat, beans,

district. of the rural deanery of Taunton, archdeaconry of barley, mangolds and swedes. The acreage of the united
Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. By a Local parishes of Oak and Hillfarrance (united for Union purposes

Government Order which came into operation March 25th, under the name of Oak) is r,69o; rateable value, £4,371;
1884, the parish was for civil purposes amalgamated with the population in r88r was 485.
Nynehead, Milverton and Oak. The church of the Holy Sexton, lsaac Hall.

Cross is a small building of stone in the Early English style, Letters through Taunton by foot messenger arrive at 8 a. m.
consisting of chancel, nave, south chapel, south porch and Taunton & Wellington are the nearest money order &
a western tower with turret staircase on the north side and telegraph offices
containing 5 bells : the south chapel was built by William WALL Box cleared at 5-45 p. m. week days only
de Vemai, ob. 1333, who is buried here: in the porch are the A School Board of 7 members was formed March 26, 1877,
remains of a holy water stoup : there are sittings for 150 for the united district of Hillfarrance, Oak & Heathfield;
persons. The register dates from the year 1813. The Rev. E. B. C. Spurway M. A. chairman & hon. clerk to the

living is a vicarage, yearly value £rso, with residence and board; Robert Crocker, Bradford, attendance officer
about 13 acres of glebe, in the patronage of Trinity College, Board School (mixed), built at Oak in 1879 at a cost of

Oxford, and held since I887 by the Rev. David Payne about £7oo, for 120 children; average attendance, 70;

Williams, of Hertford College, Oxford. The manor was Garth Chapple, master ; Mrs. Emily Chapple, mistress

Elton William Wary, Heathfield lodge Court George, farmer, Allerford Hayman John,farmr,Pontispoole farm
Williams Rev. David Payne, Vicarage Crocker James & Robert., builders Jenks Sarah (Miss), shopkeeper
England William, farmer, Knapp farm Oaten Wiiliam, Anchor inn
COMMERCIAL.
England William Herbert, assistant Ware James,wheelwright&blacksmith
Bond Benjamin, farmer, Pitland overseer for Hillfarrance,Knapp farm Winter James, farmer, Slough corner
Chappell James, farmer & assistant
Hawkins Henry, miller (water)
overseer for Milverton, Court farm

HINTON BLEWETT is a picturesque and healthy dicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, with an arcade of ·
four arches on the north side, north aisle, south porch and
parish and scattered village, situated on an eminence corn- a massive embattled western tower, with three pinnacles
manding extensive views, about 3 miles south-west from and a staircase turret terminating in a very bold finial and
Clutton station on the Bristol and Radstock branch of the containing 5 bells: there is a piscina in the south chanc-.el
Great Western railway, 12 south from Bristol, IS south- wall and a gallery at the west end: the church has sittings
west from Bath and 8~ north-by-P-SSt from Wells, in the for ISO persons. The register of baptisms dates from the
Northern division of the county, Chewton hundred, union
year 1565; marriages and burials, I563. The living is a
of Clutton, petty sessional division and county court district
rectory, tithe rent-charge £170, gross yearly income £320,
of Temple Cloud, Chew Magna district of the rural deanery including ro6 acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of Mrs.
of Chew, arobdeaconry of Bath and diocese of Bath and Johnson, and held since 1867 by the Rev. Edward Frederick
Wells. The river Cam takes its rise V!. this parish. The
Johnson, of St, John's College, Ca.mbridga, and surroJate,
church of All Saints is an edifice of stone, in the Perpen-

246 BINTON BLEWETT. SO~IERSETSHIRE. [KELLY'S

who is non-resident ; the Rev. Richard Charles William The hamlets are SouTH WmcOMBE, about half a mile

Raban M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, is curate west; CoLEY, I mile south-west; and SHORT Woon, J: mile

in charge. There are charities of £4 yearly. William south.

Wooldridge Rees-Mogg esq. who is lord of the manor, Parish Clerk and Sexton, Charles Lovell.
William Wildman Kettlewell esq. M.A., .J.P. of Harptree

Court, and the trustees of the late W. B. Naish are the Letters are received through Bristol, vi~ Temple Cloud.
chief landowners. The soil is chiefly white lias, some of East Harptree (an adjoining village) is the nearest money
which is very rich grazing land; subsoil, corn-grit. The order & telegraph office. WAtL Box cleared at 3.52 p.m.
chief crops are grass, hay and corn. There are fine quarries week days only

of building stone and, it is generally believed, veins of coal.

The area is I, I02 acres; rateable value, £3,257; the popu- National School, erected in I876, for 30 children; average

lation in I88r was I8g. attendance, I7; Miss Emma Elizabeth Yetman, mistress

Hunt John, Coley Fear Abel, farmer, South Widcombe Lyons Andrew, Seven Stars inn

Johnson Rev.Geo. [Cath.],Shortwood ho Fear Henry, farmer, Coley Hill farm Middle Hy.dairy frmr.&carrier,Shortwd

1\Iogg Wm. Wooldridge Rees, Manor ho Fear John, farmer, Middle Hill farm Pool Jas. Hunt, farmer, Sadbrook farm

Mostyn Charles, Widcombe villa Ferris Thomas, farmer, Greenway Pool William, farmer, Shortwood

Raban Rev. Richard Charles William FlowerRd.gardnr.toW.W.Rees-Mogg esq Rawlings Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Hinton

M.A. [curate in charge] Flower William, Ring of Bells P.H Field farm

Vowles Mrs Hunt John, farmer & landowner, Coley Sage Charles, farmer, Elm Grove farm

Appleby George, farmer,Sth.Widcombe James Mark, farmer, Field farm Speed Henry, boot & shoe maker

Crossman Chas.farmer,CoombeHillfrm Lovell Thomas, carpenter & farmer Withey John Brock, farmer, Shortwood

HINTON ST. GEORGE is a parish and well-built Poulett or his agents, amongst eight widows of the parish;

Tillage, situated on the road between the two towns, 4 miles there are some smaller charities, and also eight almshouses
north-west from Crewkerne station on the London and for poor women, nominees o{ EarlPoulett. Areading room
South Western railway, and 4 south-east from Ilminster, in and lending library, furnished by Lady Augusta, third
the Southern division of the county, hundred, petty sessional daughter of John, 4th Earl Poulett, is maintained by sub-
division and .county court district of Crewkerne, union of scriptions. A fair is held on the 23rd of April for cattle.
Chard, rural deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taun- This place gives the title of Viscount to the Poulett family,

ton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The village has long Earl Poulett is lord of the manor and chief landowner; Bin-
been lighted with gas, and now ( r889) a service of pipes is ton House, his seat here, is a noble mansion, surrounded by a
being laid to afford a constant supply of water. The church park of about 6oo acres, and is approached by a carriage drive
of St. George is a building of stone, in the Early English style, from the village, anti from the Higher and Middle lodges,

consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle, south through avenues of trees. The soil is light and stony ; sub-
porch and a lofty embattled western tower, with pinnacles, soil, sandy. The crops are wheat, barley and roots, with
containing a clock and 5 bells: the etained east window is a pasture. The area is r,,:oo acres ; rateable value, £5,012 ;
memorial to John, 4th Earl Poulett K.T. d. qth January, the population in r88I was 68r.

I8r9, and his family; and there are monuments in the Assistant Overseer, James Mitchell.

church to the Pouletts, dating from the early part of the l::lexton, Charles Clark.

I6th century: there are sittings for 250 persons. The PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

register dates from I632. The living is a rectory, tithe James Mitchell, receiver. Letters arrive from Crewkerne

rent-charge £I7I, net yearly value £I90, including r2 acres & Taunton, delivery at 7.30 a.m. & 7·45 p.m. ; dispatch

of glebe, with house, in the gift of Earl Poulett, and held at ro a.m. & 7·45 & 9.30 p.m. Telegraph office open
since r869 by the Rev. James Ratcliffe Dolliag M.A. of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ; sundays, delivery 7.30 a.m. ; dispatch

Worcester College, Oxford, rural dean of Ilminster district, 7·45 & 9.30 p.m. Telegraph office open from 8 a.m. till

in the deanery of Crewkerne, and domestic chaplain to Earl Io a.m

Poulett. There is a Wesleyan chapel and a chapel for the INSURANCE AGENT.-West of England Fire & Life, B. Love

Brethren. The charities include £I5 for blankets, £9 for National School (mixed), built in I8So, for r6o children;

shoes and stockings, and 3os. for bread. Hutching's charity, average attendance, II2; Mr. James Nathaniel Flaxman,

amounting to r6s. weekly, is divided at the discretion of Earl master; Mrs. Flaxman, infants' mistress

Poulett Earl, Hintonhouse; & 30 Belsize Frost Henry, boot maker Norman Benjamin, jun. plumber

Park gardens N w; & Arthur's & Gas Works (Henry Jas. Barnwell, man) Norman William, painter

Army & Navy clubs, London s w Goodland William, butcher Palmer Rd. Bicknell, farmr. Priory frm

Anley Mrs. Abbey house Gosling Thomas, Poulett Arms P.H Poole J.J. & G. farmers,Lodge farm; &

Ayling George, Chestnut house Grinter Robert, fly proprtr. & farmer at Henley, Crewkerne .

Darbey Mrs. The Cottage Holland James, plumber & decorator Reading Room & Library

Dolling Rev. Jas. Ratcliffe M.A.[rector] Hutchings Eliza (Mrs.), day school Richards Edward, boot & shoe maker

Flaxman James Nathaniel Irish Chas. farm bailiff to Earl Poulett Silley Emma Catherine & Charlotte

Gill James, Terrace house Irish Samuel, farmer, Tetts farm (Misses), milliners & dress makers

Leigh Arthur Egerton, Hope villa Lawrence Hannah (Miss), shopkeeper Somerset Conservative Association

Love Benjamin, Springfield Love Benjamin, land agent& surveyor; (Lieut.-Col. E. L. Sawyer .J.P. pres)

Newbery Mrs. Summerville steward to William Wyndham esq. of Stembridge Henry Chas. accountant

Sawyer Lieut.-Colonel Edward J.P. St. Dienton park,Wilts; to Charles Pen- Trask Jane (Mrs.), George & Crown

George's house ruddocke esq. of Compton park, family, commercial & tourists' hotel

Stembridge Henry Charles Wilts & Mrs. Wyndham, Hinton, & posting house ; horses & carriages

COMMERCIAL. Hants ; agent to theWest of England for hire ; stabling. See advert

Baker John Albert, grocer !<'ire & Life Insurance Co Warry Benjamin, grocer & draper

Bishop Daniel, thatcher Love Joseph, wheelwright Warry Frederick, blacksmith; all

Clarke Charles, saddler Love Robert, builder kinds of smith's work ; agricultural

Crossman Josepb, wheelwright Mitchell James, sen. fanner implements made & repaired; agent

Dawe Sarah Sophia (Mrs.), grocer Mitchell James, grocer & draper & as- for principal manufacturers

Dowding James, dairy sistant overseer, Post office Webb Edwin, mason

Dunell Thomas, farmer, Old farm Mitchell John Alfred, farmer & builder Whitty EmmaCaroline (Mrs.), milliner

Estate Office of the Earl Poulett (Henry Newick. James, baker & farmer & dress maker

Charles Stembridge, manager) Norman Benjamin, tailor

HOLCOMBE is a parish and village, 2} miles south-east vestry, and a small western turret containing one bell : there

from Chilcompton station and 3~ south from Radstock station are sittings for 280 persons. The register dates from I698,

on the Bath extension of the Somerset and Dorset railway, The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £52, net

6 north-east from Shepton Mallet, 7~ west from Frome and yearly value £83, including 18 acres of glebe, with residence,

I2 south-west from Bath, in the Frome division of the in the gift of Lord Hylton, and held since r874 by the Rev.
county, hundred and petty sessional division of Kilmersdon, Waiter Eugene Whitaker B.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford.

Sheptoa Mallet union, Wells county conrt district, Midsomer who is also rector of Babington. There is a W esleyan chapel

Norton district of the rural deanery of Merston, arch- here, built in I7741 with a day school attached. Here is an

deaeonry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The old extensive brewery. The Rev. James Douglas Clephane

church of St. Andrew, situated about I mile north of the Wickham B.A. rector of Horsington, is- lord of the manor.

village, is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular Capt. Wyndham Knatchbull, of Babington, Lord Hyltoa,

style, withaNormandoorway:itisnowusedonlyasamor- Lieut.-Col. Sir Richard Horner Paget M.P., D.L., .J.P. of

tuary chapel. The new church of St. Andrew, situated in the Crimmore Hall, J. E. Salmon esq. and Emanuel Green

centre of the village, and consecrated July I8, r885, is a esq. are the chief landowners. Coal abounds, and there
building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of are the remains of many old works, discontinued for want

chancel, nave of four bays, south porch, organ chamber and of the necessary draining machinery. A new mine was

DIRECTORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. HORNBLO'M'ON. 247

commenced at Edford Green, in January, 1862, and is now & 7·45 p.m. on week days only. Stra.tton-on-the-Fosse &

worked by the Edford Colliery Company. The soil is Coleford are the nearest money order offices, the latter

various ; the subsoil, clay and limestone. The land is being' the nearest telegraph office

chiefly in pasture for dairy .purposes. The acreage is 687 ; SCHOOLS :~

rateable value, £2,154; the populatio1;1 in x88r was 531. National (mixed), erected in 1857, for 100 children; aver-

EDFORD is a hamlet, I mile south.· age attendance, 'JO ; Miss Minnie Treasure, mistress

Parish Clerk, Paul Treasure. Wesleyan Day (mixed), erected in 1859, for 100 children;

PosT OF'FICE.-Mrs. Ellen Padfield, 'receiver. Letters average attendance, 70; Miss L. Wilkinson, mistress

through Bath to Stratton-on-the-fosse, & thence by foot lNsUBANCE AGENT.-Sun Fire, London & Norwich Acci•

post, arrive at 6.40 a. m. & 3.40 p.m. ; dispatched at 2.30 dent, & Marine & General, A. F. James

llackhouse John James Chafey, Hill ho Bissex Ernest, farmer, Moor's farm Padfield William Haine, dairy farmer,
Lickes Rev. Robert [Wesleyan]
Marsland Rev. I<'redk.Bourne [curate] Candy Arthur, dairy farmer, Littlefield Holcombe farm
Padfield Benjamin
Ridler Howard James Clarke Albert, shopkeeper Plummer William, shopkeeper
Whitaker Rev. Waiter Eugene B •.A..
Clarke George, shoe maker Steeds Albert James, dairy farmer, Red
.Rectory
Edford Colliery Ca. (Howard James House farm
COMMERCIAL.
Ridler, manager), Edford Treasure Joseph, underground manager
JBadman & Son, painterS', house decora•
tors & general contractors, iron- Ford Mary (Mrs.), corn miller (water), to Edford collieries 1
mongers & smiths
Ham mills, Edford Treasure J oseph, jun. carpenter
Badman Oliver William, grocer, draper
& outfitter Gilson Seward, wheelwright •.rreasure Leah (Mrs.), shopkpr. Edford

Hamblin Edward, beer retailer Webb Joseph, Duke of Cumberland P.H.

James Arthnr Frederick, builder, Edford

undertaker, wheelwright & smith Wilcox Edward, farmer, Edford

Martin Waiter, farmer, Edford farm Wilcox Joseph, shopkeeper & beer seller

Padfield Ellen (Mrs.), shopkpr.&post oil 1

HOLFORD is a. pleasant village and parish, situated by The area is 796 acres; rateable value, £r,250; the popnla...

the road from Bridgwater to Minehead, and -2 miles from tion in 1881 was 157.
the coast of Bridgwater Bay, 6 east from Williton station on By a Local Government Order which came into operation

the West Somerset branch of the Great Western railway and March 26, 1884, a nearly detached part of this parish,
xo~ west from Bridgwater, in the Western division of the known as Newall, was amalgamated with Dodington, and on
.county, hundred of Whitley, Willitonpetty.sessionaldivision, March 25, 1886, a portion of Kilton was added, and a

union and county court district, rural deanery of Bridg-water, detached part of Stringston, known as Alfoxton, was added
archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. to this parish. Alfoxton House, the seat of Mrs. St. Albyn,
The church of St. Mary is a small edifice of native stone in is pleasantly situated in a fine park, stocked with deer, and

the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north commanding an extensive view of the Bristol Channel; this
porch, vestry and a low western towet containing 3 bells: was formerly the residence of the poet Wordsworth, and
there are sittings for 100 persons. The register dates from then called" Alfoxden."

the year 1578. The living is a rectory, rent-charge £140, Sexton, Henry Browning.
with 68 acres of glebe, gross income £'210, with residence, in
·the gift of E tFornedCeorlilcekgeP, eaankdeMh.eAl.dofsiSnct.eM1agrgy7Hbayll,thOexfRoervd., PosT OFFICE.-Thomas Jones, receiver. Letters arrive
<George Eden from Bridgwater at 5.46 a.. m.; dispatched at 8.5 p.m.

.and surrogate. Sir Alexander Bateman Periam Fuller- The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Nether

Acland-Hood bart. D.L.• J.P. of St. Audries, West Quantox- Stowey
head, who is lord of the manor, and Mrs. St. Albyn are the The children of this parish attend the school at Dyche, in the
.principal landowners. The soil is principally stone rush. parish of Stringston

Fleay Mrs Browning Henry,blacksmith & shopkpr Jones Thomas, carpenter

Hayman Robert Corner William, farmer Stroud Philip, Plough inn

PeJ.ke Rev.Geo.Eden Fredk.M.A.Rectory Hayman John J. tanner & currier Williams Charles, farmer

St. Albyn Mrs. Alfoxton house .

HOLTON is a village and parish, situated on the road formerly annexed to that of ~orth Cheriton, but separated
by an Order in Council, January, 1886, yearly tithe rent-
from Wincanton to Taunton and Yeovil, 6 miles south from
charge £uo, with residence and 35 acres of glebe, in the
Bruton, 6 south-east from Castle Cary and 2! south-west
gift of 'f. J. Garniss esq. and held since 1888 by the Rev.
irom Wincanton station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, Thomas Dunn. Here is 11. Baptist chapel. The Plucknett
.in the Eastern division of the county, Whitley hundred, family are lords of the manor. The principal landowners
Wincanton petty sessional division, union and county court
are Thomas Todd Walton esq. the Rev. Joseph John Stan-
district, deanery of Cary, archdeaconry of Taunton and
ton M.A. of Holton House, Wincanton, and Mr. Baker. The
diocese of Bath and Wells. A stream flows to the south of soil is clayey ; subsoil, clay and stone ; the land is chiefly
the parish, but does not form the boundary. The church of
used for dairy purposes, the arable growing wheat and
St. John is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, barley. The area is x,x87 acres; rateable value, [.217o6;
.consisting of chancel, nave. north aisle, south porch and an the population in 1881 was 169.
embattled western tower containing 3 bells: the church was
restored in 1882-5, under the direction of Mr. Willcox, Parish Clerk, Thomas Pittman..

architect, of Bath, when the old oak roof, long concealed by PosT OFFICE.-William Rowden, receiver. Letters arrive
plaster work, was opened and restored and a north aisle from Bath to Wincanton & are delivered at 7.30 a.m.;
dispatched at 6.10 p.m. ; sundays, 10.25 a. m. Wmcanton
added, at a cost of £2oo: during the alterations the remains is the nearest money order & telegraph office

-of a fine stone pulpit were discovered : the font is of early The children of this place attend the school at North
-date: there are sittings for 120 persons. The register dates
Cheriton
lrom 1558, and is imperfect. The living is a rectory,

.Ames Miss Benjafield Silas Henry, farmer & bldr Howes James, farmer
Norris John, wheelwright
Dendy Rev. Samuel M..A.. [rector of Beveridge John, commercial traveller
Richards Samuel, farmer
Pensthorpe, Norfolk], Lattiford ho Chapman Thomas, miller (water) Rowden Henry, farmer

Dunn Rev. Thomas, Rectory Down Geo. farmer, Hatherleigh farm

-Garniss Thomas John, Holton lodge Down Jamel!l, dairy farmer,La.ttiford Rowden Wm. shopkeeper, Post office
Longman Mrs
'Taylor John William English George, farmer Thick Robert, farmer, Lattiford

COMMERCIAL. Foot John, farmer, Lower Hatherleigh Warren Saml. (Mrs.), farmer,Lattiford
.Andrew William M. farmer
Goddard Charles Edward, blacksmith t White Thomas, butcher

Hillier John Thomas, Old inn 1

HORNBLOTTON (11.nciently called HoRNBL.A.WERTON, dressings, in the DecoTated style, consisting of chancel, with

given in the time of King Ethelwolf to the monastery of organ chamber and vestry on the north, nave, south porch
Glastonbury) is a parish, situated on the l<'osse way and and a western tower with wooden spire, covered with oak
bounded on the south-east by the river Brue, 3 miles north- shingles, and containing an electric clock and 3 bells : the
west from Castle Cary station on the Great Western railway, base of the tower forms a porch: the chancel is paved with
7~ south from Shepton Mallet and 10 south-by-east from glass mosaic, and contains a piscina, removed from the old
Wells, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of .church : the walls of the church are adorned with Sgraffito
'Vhitestone, Shepton Mallet petty sessional division and work : there are several stained windows, the east window
1mion, Wells county court district, rural deanery of Cary, exhibiting the Crucifixion in the centre, and on either side
archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. figuresof AngelsholdingtheinstrumentsofthePassion: the

The church of St. Peter, erected in 1874, at the cost of the reredos is of Derbyshire alabaster, with figures of the four
Rev. Godfrey Thring B.A. rector, and his wife, near the site Evangelists on blue enamel in the panels: the chancel seats,

of the old church (the tower of which still remains), is a pulpit and lectern are of oak, richly inlaid with designs in

small building of orange oolite stone, with Donlting stone satin-wood, holly and ebony, on black walnut: the Norman

248 HORNBLOTl'ON. SO:M:ERSETSHIRE. (KELLY'S

font and a monument to Elizabeth, wife of Elias Dymock, a owner. The soil is a strong clay, with mar! subsoil in parts,.

former rector, who died in I730, were removed here from (from which excellent draining tiles are made), and alluvialr

the old church: the seats are of oak and afford sittings for with gravel subsoil, near the river. The land is chiefly

85 persons: the church was consecrated in February, I874· pasture. The area is x,o82 acres; rateable value, ,li,_sxo;.

The register dates from 1763. The living is a rectory. an- the population in I88I was u3.

nexed tc> that of Alford, average tithe rent-charge £282, Sexton, William Cock.

joint net yearly value £129, including 40 acres of glebe, with Letters through Castle Cary S.O. (which is the nearest.

house at Hornblotton, in the gift of Theodore Thring esq. money order & telegraph office) arrive at 8.I 5 a.m
and held since I858 by the Rev. Godfrey Thring B.A. of
Balliol College, Oxford, and prebendaryof.Wells. Theodore WALL LETTER Box, cleared at 5.10 p.m. week days only

Thring esq. J.P. is lord of the manor and principal land- The children of this place attend the school at Lovington

Green Charles • Green Thos. dairy farmer,Church farm Ottery Wm. carpenter & shopkeeper

Thring Rev. Prebendary Godfrey B.A. Martin William (Mrs.), dairy farmer, TilleyJn.(Mrs.), dairy frmr.Middle frm

Rectory Easton farm Thring Theodore, drain pipe & tile ma

Longman Jas. dairy frmr. Mendip frm Moody John, farmer Travers William, farmer, Higher farm

HORRINGTON, 2 miles east from Wells, where is the WEST HoRRINGTON hamlet is I mile north-north-west and
nearest railway station, was formed into an ecclesiastical 2~ north-east from Wells. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. The

parish from the civil parish of St. Cuthbert, Wells, Sep- County of Somerset and Bath Lunatic Asylum for Paupers

tember 14, 1844: it comprises EAST and WEST HORRINGTON, is situated here, full particulars of which are given under-

CHILCOT, WHITNELL, HAYDON and HILLGROVE, and is in Wells.

the Wells division of the county, hundred of Wells Forum, Parish Clerk, William Ridewood.
petty sessional division, union and county court district of

Wells, Shepton Mallet district of the rural deanery of WALL LETTER Box, East Horrington, near the church,.
Powlett, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and cleared at 6.Io p.m. week days. Letters through Wells,.
Wells. The church of St. John the Evangelist, erected in which is the nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive,

I838, is a small building of stone in the Early English style, at 7.3o. a.m.
consisting of chancel, nave, west porch and bell turret con.

taining one bell; the interior was restored in x88o, and there WALL LETTER Box, West Horrington, near the pump,.
are sittings for 350 persons. The register dates from the cleared at s.so p.m. week days only. Letters through..
Wells, arrive at 8, which is the nearest money order &
year I838. The living is a vicarage, yearly \'alue £3oo, in telegraph office

the gift of the vicar of St. Cuthbert's, Wells, and held since
x865 by the Rev. Stephen I<'rancis Bedford Peppin M.A. of

St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and priest vicar of Wells Cathe- National School (mixed), erected in 1839, for xoo children;:

dral. The population in x881 was I,366. average attendance, 6o ; James Thorn, master

East Horrington. Ridewood William, blacksmith Wade Arthur Law B.A., M.D. (resident.
Thorn William, farmer physician & superintendent)

Peppin Rev. Stephen Francis Bedford

M.A. [vicar & priest vicar of Wells West Horrington.

cathedral], Vicarage RESIDENTS AT THE COUNTY LUNATIC Law Mrs
Boyce Charlotte (Mrs.), farmer ASYLUM. Ball Frank, farmer, Haydon
Gould Geo. propr. of thrashing machines Bryant William, shopkeeper

Hill George, beer retailer Downes Rev. James Johnson B.A.Lchap- Golledge James, farmer, Whitnell

J ames Richard, Slab House inn lain] James William & Charles, fanners, The.

James William, farmer, Washing Pool Duke Benj. Thomas (clerk & steward) Rookery, Whitnell

farm, Chilcot James Arthur William L.R.C.P.LOnd. James Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer

Matthews Henry, shopkeeper (junior assistant medical officer) James Richard Norris, farmer,Haydon..

Pearce Hy. propr. of drilling machines McWilliam Alexander M.A., M.H., c.u. Masters .H.ichd.farmer,Hill Grove farm

Reakes George, farmer, Chilcot (senior assistant medical officer.} Vowles Edward, farmer

HORSINGTON is a parish I mile north from Temple by T. H. M. Bailward esq. J.P. of the Manor House; it is.

Combe Junction station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, under the control of a Burial Board of 7 members. Thomas·

3~ miles south lrom Wincanton and 113 from London, in the Henry Methuen Bailward esq. J.P. of the Manor House, who-

Eastern division of the county, Horethorne hundred, Win- is lord of the manor, and Thomas Marriott-Dodington esq.

canton union, county court district and petty sessional M.A., J.P. are the chief landowners. Some of the soil is a.

division, Milborne Port district of the rural deanery of deep sandy loam : the substratum of the parish may be-

Merston, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and divided generally into four bands, running nearly north and

Wells. The river Cale, a tributary of the Stour, flows south, the most westerly being forest marble, then corn-

through the parish. The church of St. John the Baptist brash, marl or marl stone and Oxford clay. The land is

is a building of local stone, in the Early English style, con- chiefly in pasturage for dairy purposes. The area is 3,073'

sisting of chancel, nave of five bays, south aisle, north porch acres; rateable value, ,£6,589; the population in x88x was

and a fine embattled western tower containing a clc>ck and 734·
6 bells: the church (with the exception of the tower) was HoRwoon, a detached hamlet, was on March 25, x886,.

entirely rebuilt in 1884-5, at a cost of £2,600, when it was amalgamated with Stoke Trister.

reseated, refloored, and the passages repaved : the chancel WILKINTHROOP is a hamlet, x mile west of the church.
screen of iron and brass and the lectern were given by Parish Clerk, William Godfrey.
various members of the Marriott-Dodington family : there

are memorial windows to John Bailward, William Gifford PosT OFFICE.-Miss Elizabeth Hallet, receiver. Letter~
and James William Parsons, erected at the time of the arrive from Bristol via Templecombe by foot post & are.

restoration: there are sittings for 350 persons, of which delivered at 7 a. m. & 2.45 p.m. ; sun. 7 a.m. ; dispatched_

I20 are free. Near the church stands an ancient cross at 3.25. & 7·35 p.m. week days; sun. I0.20 a.m. Temple.

bearing a sculptured figure, supposed to represent the patron Combe is the nearest money order & telegraph office_

saint of the church. The register dates from 1558. The Postal orders are issued here, but not paid

living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £734• gross PosT OFFICE, South Cheriton.-James Hillier, receiver-

yearly value £834, including 75 acres of glebe, with house, in Letters arrive from Bath via Temple Combe 7 a.. m. &.

the gift of and held since I875 by the Rev. James Douglas 3·5 p.m.; dispatched 3.15 & 7.15 p.m.; sun. xo a.m.

Clephane Wickham B.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. The Temple Combe is the nearest money order & telE\:,OTapll.

mission room at South Cheriton is a structure of brick, office

seating no persons. Here is a Baptist chapel and at SOUTH National school (mixed), erected, with house for master&.

CHERITON, a hamlet I mile north, there are Congregational mistress, in I857 for ISO children; average attendance, 120;

and Wesleyan chapels. The charities amount to about £2o Henry Reuben Hillyer, master; Mrs. Hillyer, mistress

yearly value. A Cemetery of three-quarters of an acre, CARRIER.-Mogg from Stalbridge to Wincanton passes.

with a mortuary chapel, was presented to the town in I885, through on wed

Bailward Thomas Henry Methuen J.P. Wadman John, Cheriton cottage Cemetery (William Smith, clerk to the.
Manor house Wickham Rev. James Douglas Clephane burial board)

Bewsey John L. Cheriton house B.A. [rector] Corp Henry, blacksmith
Jordan Rev. John Jeremiah (Congrega- Cox Waiter, farmer, Makin Hill farm
COMMERCIAL. Cross Henry. farmer, WilkinthrOOJ\
tional], South Cheriton Davis Samson, farmer, Darkharbo.nr
Marriott-Dodington Thomas M.A., J.P. Biggin John, farmer, South Cheriton Francis Wm.Chas.farmer, Wilkinthronp.
Bnrt James, market gardener
Horsington house

DIRECTORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. HUNTSPILL. 249

Godfrey William Henry, beer retailer & Hicks Geo. blacksmith, South Cheriton Raymond James, carpenter & wheel

baker, South Cheriton Hilliar James, shopkeeper, & post office, wright, South Cheriton

Hallett Elizabeth (Miss), shopkeeper South Cheriton Rowden Thomas, coal dealer

& postmistress Imber George, plumber Smith William, Half Moon inn

Hannam Michael, builder Parsons James, farmer, Hull farm Shepherd Wm. farmer, Peccles Ash

Hannam Thomas, farmer, Marsh Perrett John (Mrs.), farmer, Marsh Thring George, grocer &baker

Herridge Ebenezer, farmer, Marsh Perrett John George, farmer, Horsing- Wadwan John, farmer

Herridge Edward, farmer, Marsh ton farm

HU'ISH CHAMPFLOWER is a village and parish, including 200 acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of Sir

3! miles west-by-north from Wivesliscombe station on the Alfred Wilson Trevelyan hart. of Nettlecombe Court, and held

Devon and Somerset branch of the Great Western railway, since I872 by the Rev. Walker King s.c.L. of Emmanuel

and IO north-west from Wellington, in the Western division College, Cambridge. At the northern extremity of the

of the county, hundred of Williton, Wiveliscombe petty parish, on Brendon Hills and partly in King's Brompton,
sessional division, Dulverton union, Taunton county court are iron mines, formerly worked by the Ebbw Vale Iron
district, Wiveliscombe district of the rural deanery of Taun- Company, but now disused. Sir Alfred Wilson Trevelyan
ton, archdeaconryof Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. hart. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is

The river Tone rises in this parish. The church of St. Peter loamy, with some clay and the subsoil slate. The crops are
is a building of stone, of the Late Decorated period, consist- mostly wheat, oats and barley. The area is 2,909 acres;
ing of chancel, nave, north aisle, with an arcade of five rateable value, £2,988; the population in I88x was 368.

arches with clustered piers and foliated capitals, south porch On March 25, I884, a part of Chipstable parish, consisting of
and an embattled western tower, with stair turret, containing two farms known as Chitcombe and Withy, was amal-

5 bells : the tower and the tracery of the windows are Per- gamated with this parish.
pendicular; a handsome window, with rich tracery, at the Sexton, Robert Burge.
east end of the aisle contains portions of ancient glass; the
east window is a memorial to the Rev. John Woodhouse, 36 PosT OFFICE.-Richard Tout, sub-postmaster. Letters
years rector, who died in I872, and there is another good arrive from Wiveliscombe R.S.O. at 7.I5 a.m.; dispatched
at 6 p.m.; sundays at 9 a.m. Wiveliscombe is the

stained window near the porch: there are sittings for 320 nearest money order & telegraph office

persons. The register dates from I677. The living is a School (mixed), erected about I8571 for6o children; average-
rectory, tithe rent-charge £237, net yearly value £380, attendance, 35; Miss Elizabeth Mathews, mistress

King Rev. Walker sc.L. [rector] Hawkins George, farmer, West Combe r Sillick James, farmer, Middle Brown
Wright Miss
Hawkins James, shoe maker Sloman JamM, farmer, Manor farm

COMMERCIAL. Herniman Henry, farmer, East Combe Stone Edwin, miller(water),Washbrit.tla
Atkins James, farrier, Huish moor Tout John, carpenter, The Moor
Baker Henry, farmer, Middleton court Hill Richard, farmer, Middle Shute Tout Richard, shopkeeper, Post office
Baker John, farmer, Lower Brown King William, blacksmith Tout Thos. carpenter, Church cottage
Baker William, Castle P.H. & shopkpr Luxton John, farmer, Sholford Tout William, carpenter
Bucknell Robert, farmer, Higher Brown Warren William, shoe maker
Martin Emma (Mrs.), farmer, Catford
Norman Charle~, farmer, Withy

Clapp Barnard, farmer, Lower Shute Palfrey James, farmer, Sperry Willis Thomas, farmer, Smiths

Clapp Charles, farmer, Scotshill Rockett Edward Wm. farmer, New ho Webber Wm. bailiff to Mrs. Bowdridge

HUISH EPISCOPI is a parish adjoining Langport, I678. The living is a vicarage, of the yearly value of £250,

situated on the high road from Crewkerne to Langport, and with 75 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Archdeacon of Wells,

bounded on the south by the river Yeo, in the Eastern and held since I882 by the Rev. Joseph Stubbs M.A. of

division of the county, Kingsbury East hundred, Somerton Trinity College, Dublin. Bond's charity amounting to

petty sessional division, Langport union and county court £7 I5S. is distributed yearly. The Duke of Devonshire P.c.,.

district, Ilchester district of the rural deanery of Glaston- K.G. is lord of the manor of Wearne. Mrs. Michell, of

bury, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of .Bath and Huish Honse, Vincent Stuckey esq. J.P., D.L. of Hill House,.

Wells. The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of Langport, and James Kelway esq. are the principal land-

stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting owners. The soil is clayey, and the subsoil is blue and

of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and an embattled white lias stone and graveL The chief crops are wheat,

western tower with crocketed pinnacles and containing 5 barley and beans. The acreage is 2,095 ; rateable value,.

bells: the tower is remarkable for its great beauty and £3,904; the population in I881 was 66I.

elegance of design: the doorway of the south porch is a fine WAGG, half a mile north-east; WEARNE, I north ; PIEs-

example of Norman work: the east window is stained, and BURY, half a mile east, and NEWTOWN are hamlets.

there are memorial windows in the north transept to Sir Parish Clerk, Philip Vile. .

John Michell K.C.B. and to Major-General John Edward WALL LETI'ER Box at Wearne, cleared at 6.25 p.m. week

Michell R.A., C.B. and on the north side of the nave to the days only. Letters from Langport R.S.O. the nearest

wife of Mr. James Kelway: in 1882 a brass lectern was pre- money order & telegraph office, arrive at 7 a. m

sented by Mr. Wm. Kelway as a memorial to his wife: the This place is included in the Langport & Huish Episcopi

pulpit of carved oak dates from I625: the church has been United School Board district

restored and affords 450 sittings. The register dates from The children attend the school at Langport

Kelway James, Gladioli villa Barnard Thomas, farmer, Pibsbury David William, farmer, Pibsbury

Kelway William, Brookland house Bradford & SQ.ns, quarry owners,. Pibs- Gooding Frederick, farmer

Michell Mrs. Huish house bury stone quarry Gooding William, farmer: Paradise

Stubbs Rev. Joseph M.A. Vicarage Broadmead James, tanner &c Jeffrey William, farm bailiff to the

COMMERCIAL. Clarke John, farmer Duke of Devonshire, Bowdens
Cox Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer PerkinsLydia(Mrs. ),milliner & dress ma.

Barham Bros. lime burners & quarry Cousins Richard, farmer Blade Wm. beer retailer & stone mason

owners Crossman Charles, farmer, Bowdens Small Frederick, Pibsbury

Barnard Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer,P1bsbury Cullen Anthony John, farmer, ·wearne Wheller William, beer retailer, miller

Barnard Frederick, farmer, Pibsbury Cullen Elizabeth (Mrs.),farmer,Wearne (steam, wind & water), & saw mills

Barnard James, \\'·earne Cullen James, farmer, Coombe Windsor Martha (Mrs.), farmer, Wearn

Barnard Jehu, farmer, Pibsbury Cullen John, farmer, Wearne

HUNTSPILL is a widely scattered village and parish, 6 bells: it was partially restored during the incumbency of

situa~d on the high road from Bristol to Exeter, 6 miles the late Rev. William Charles Lake, but was burned down
north from Bridgwater and It south from Highbridge in December, I878, and rebuilt in I88o by subscription :
station on the .Bristol and Exeter section of the Great the east window is a memorial to the Rev. N. T. Elli-
Western railway, in the Bridgwater division of the county, son, a former rector of this parish, and his wife : he had
Huntspill and Puriton hundred, Bridgwater petty sessional inserted a window in the church previous to its destruction,
division, union and county court district, rural deanery of which, being covered by insurance, was thus re-inserted :

• Pawlett, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and there are sittings for 400 persons. The register dates from

Wells. The river Brue, in parts, separates it from the the year 1654- The living is a rectory, net yearly value.
adjoining parish of Burnham, and the Parrett flows at its £350, with residence and I40 acres of glebe, and rectory
western extremity. The Great Western railway runs manor (now, and for a long time to come, let on lease), in
through the parish. East Huntspill IS now a separate the gift of the Master and Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford,
ecclesiastical parish, and will be found under that head. who receive from the rector £3oo yearly, and held since.
The church of All Saints is an edifice of limestone, in the I878 by the Rev. William Osborne l'ocock Wilson M.A. o£
Perpendicular style of the early I5th century, consisting of Balliol College, Oxford. The Wesleyan Methodist chapel is
chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, transept, soutn porch, an edifice of brick, erected in 1851. Huntspill Court,

-and an embattled western tower with turrets, containing situated in a finely timbered park of 57 acres, is the resi-

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deuce of William Tilley esq. The rector is lord of the manor. 12 noon & S p.m. The nearest money order & telegt.aph

The soil is clay, and the subsoil is sand in some parts and office is at Highbridge. Postal orders are issued here but

clay in others. The land is chiefly rich pasturage, and IS not paid

applied to the manufacture or cheese of superior quality and
other dairy produce. The area is 6,089 acres; rateable A School Board of 5 members was formed May u, 1875;
value (inclusive of East Huntspill), £21,o87; the population P. 0. H. & T. M. Reed, Bridgwater, clerks to the board;
in 1881 was 1,920, of which 1,239 ~e in West Huntspill.
Charles Sparks, attendance officer

Parish Clerk, Job Came. Board School (mixed), erected in 1877, for 190 children;

P.osT 0FFICE.-James Newton, receiver. Letters arrive average attendance, 153; John Rowe, master; Mrs. Ann

from Bridgwater at 6 a.m. & 12.30 p.m. ; dispatched at Bacon, assistant mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Burnett James Davis, wholesale & retail Lawrence George, farmer, Guy farm

Board Waiter grocer, provision merchant, linen & Needs Charles, baker, East terrace

Brown Charles woollen draper & ironmonger,& china Newton Jas. draper & grocer, Post office

Carter Mrs & glass & earthenware depot. See Norris William, yeoman, Smerle farm

Clapp Mrs. Rock house advertisement. 'felegraphic address, Palmer Samuel, farmer, The Grove

Dean Mrs "Jaydebee, Highbridge" Palmer Thomas, hrmer, Swell house

Hurman William, Huntspill villa Came Job, parish clerk Sharp Samuel, farmer & cattle dealer

Isgar Mrs. Fern cottage Cann George, farmer Squire Henry, corn dealer

Norris Thomas Floyd, Hope cottage Chanter Richd. corn. trav. Exeter villa Stevenslssac,farmer&assistant overseer

Porter William, Laurel cottage Clarka Genrge, carpenter Stevens Waltr.Sl.farmer,WithyBrdg.fm

Saunders Misses, Alston terrace Deane Charles, shopkeeper Thyer William, hair dresser

Tilley William, Huntspill court Durston Mrs. Ellen, farmer Tilley Mrs. Ellen, farmer

Wase Jeremiah Eveleigh Chas. boot&shoe ma. & beer ret Tilley Wm. Hy. farmer, Alston court

Wilson Rev, William Osborne Pocock Fackrell Joseph, beer retailer Toogood Clement, veterinary surgeon

M.A. Rectory Fear Thomas. farmer Toogood Edward, registrar of births &

COMMERCIAL, Ford M. S.(Miss),ladies' schl.Alstone vil deaths for Huntspili sub-district

Bagg George Crandon, farmer Haines Edward, farmer Toogood John, farmer

Bagg William, farmer, Mulberry house Haines Joseph, farmer & cattle dealer Wase Jeremiah, surgeon, & medical

Betty Montague, corn. trav. Rose villa Hardacre Joseph, plumber officer & public vaccinator, No, 4

.Bishop Susan (Mrs.), Cross Ways inn Hawkings Wm. Body,farmer,Plymor hl district, Bridgwater union

Body Edward, farmer Holley Albert, saddler &harness maker, Way Samuel, market gardener

Brake James, farmer, Seely's farm & sole proprietor of Holley's cattle oil Weeden Charles, farmer

Budge Joe, blacksmith Holley Fredk. farmer, Porch Housefrm Withy Combe Waiter, farmer

EAST HUNTSPILL is a village, with a station at at a cost of £2oo, is a building of stone, in the Gothic style,

Bason Bndge on the Somerset and Dorset railway, and and will seat 175 persons. There is a rectorial manor, of
ecclesiastical parish, formed May 2, 1845, from the civil which the rector is lord. The Hon. Mrs. Frederica Georgiana

parish of Huntspill, and is situated on the river Brue, 7 miles Jones, of Cardigan villa, Harrogate, Edward Sealey esq.

north from Bridgwater, 133 from London and 2 south from and John Sealey esq. are the chief landowners. The soil is
Highbridge station on the Bristol and Exeter section of clayey~ the subsoil is clay, and on the eastern border peat.
the Great Western main line, and is in the Bridgwater The land is chiefly in pasture. The acreage is 3,500; the
division of the county, Bridgwater petty sessional division, population in 1881 was 1,239.
union and county court district, rural deanery of Pawlett, Parish Clerk, Henry Masters.

archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The Letters from Bridgwater are dispatched from Huntspill at
church of St. Peter, built in 1840, is an edifice of stone in 8 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at
the Norman style, and consists of chancel, nave of four Highbridge

bays, aisle, south porch, and has one bell: Lhe church will WALL LETTER BoxEs, Bason Bridge, is cleared at 6.35 p.m.
seat 230 persons. The register dates from the year 1846. & Withy road, cleared 6.30 p.m. week. days only
The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £150, including Board School (mixed), erected, with a house for the master
4 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the rector of & mistress, in 1855, for 150 children; average attendance,
Huntspill, and held since 1873 by the Rev. Edward Williams 105 ; Henry Short, master
1\f.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, who is also incumbent Bason Bridge Station, Somerset & Dorset joint line, Henry

of Catcott. The Bible Christian chapel, erected in 1840, Butt, station master

Hawkings William Cook Edwin, smith & wheelwright Moon William, farmer
Highman Frederick
Williams Rev. Edward M. A. Vicarage Coombers Thomas, farmer Puddy George Acreman, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Durston George, farmer, Hackness Puddy Jeffrey Robt.frmr.Pontings farm

Ashford George, farmer Durston John, farmer Sandford Samuel, farmer
Babbage William, farmer
Baker Charles, farmer Durston Thomas, yeoman, Lake house Saunders Sarah (Mrs.), farmer
Baker Edwin, butcher & farmer
Jlaker John, farmer & cattle dealer Gatcombe John, farmer Saunders Stephen, farmer, Wright farm
Baker Waiter, farmer
Bennett Henry, farmer, New bridge Gill John Thomas, White Hart inn Shires John, shopkeeper
Jlird Thomas, Bason Bridge inn
Jlowns George, farmer Heal Joshua, farmer Slo<:ombe Oliver, carpenter
Bowns Richard, farmer
.Caple William, carpenter & farmer Highman Frederick, farmer Sturgess William, Lamb inn
Cattle Johanna (Mrs.), Crown inn
Coles Henry, cattle dealer Highman Henry, farmer Tidball James, farmer, Cote

Hill Francis, farmer Tilly Edward (Mrs.), farmer

Hill Joshua, Model farm Toogood Thomas, farmer

Hooper Shadreck, fanner Tucker John, farmer

Isgar William, farmer, Murray Vowles Edwin. farmer, Withy farm

Jeffery James, farmer, Babb's farm Vowles John, farmer, Heath farm

Jeffery Robert, farmer, Cote Wall Frank, blacksmith

Meaker Henry (Mrs.), farmer Wilkins John, shopkeep3r

Moon John (Mrs.), farmer,Everattfarm

.HUTTON is a parish and village, 3t miles south-east monument with effigies kneeling at a prayer desk, and

from Weston-super-Mare and 8 north-west from Axbridge, behind them figures of one son and three daughters, corn-
in the Wells division of the county, Winterstoke hundred, memorating Nathaniel Still esq. his wife and family: there
Axbridge petty sessional division and union, Weston-super- is a shield of arms, and the date 1626: in the chancel are
Mare county court district, Locking district of the rural brasses, with effigies, to John Payne esq. ob. Aug. 5, 1496,
deanery of Axbridge, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Elizabeth, his wife, and 11 children: and to Thomas Payne
Bath and Wells. The Great Western railway passes through esq. ob. Aug. 12, 1528, Elizabeth, his wife, and also 11
the parish. The church of St. Mary is a building of stone, children : the chancel was rebuilt and south aisle added
in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, with organ in 1849, under the direction of Mr. Fripp, architect, of
chamber on the north side, nave of two bays, south aisle, Bristol: in 1870 a new organ and organ chamber were
and an embattled western tower of three stages, with pierced added : there are sittings for 258 persons. The register
parapet, pinnacles, and an octagonal spired stair turret at dates from 1715. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge

the south-east angle, and containing a clock, erected in 1887 £328, gross yearly value £434, including 65 acres of glebe,
by public subscription, and 5 bells: the eastern gable of the with residence, in the gift of W. Gibbs esq. and held since
nave has a sanctus bell cot: both nave and chancel have 1869 by the Rev. George Henry Gibbs B.A. Exeter College,
wagon roofs, and the wall plate of the former is carved with Oxford. Button Court, the seat of Alfred H. Bisdee esq.
a floral pattern : the lower stage of the tower has lierne was erected in the 15th century, and is supposed to have
vaulting: there is a memorial window to the Rev. Alfred belonged to the Abbey of Glastonbury : it has a fine old
Harford, a former rector : the stained west window was hall with open oak roof, and in the passage leading thereto

placed b,· private subscription: in the south aisle is a is a curious old font: from the embattled tower the views

DIRECTORY.) SOMERSETSHIRE. ILE. .2.5L

of the stlrrounding county are very fine: a porch has been the Great Western railway, the property or Miss Bisdee,

added, over the doorway of which are the arms of the Bisdee partly in Hntton parish and partly in that of Bleadon.

family. Alfred H. Bisdee esq. who is lord of the manor, Parish Clerk, George Starks.

and Sir John Henry Greville Smyth hart. M.A., l.P. of PosT 0FFICE.-Mrs. .Ann Palmer, receiver. Letters from

Ashton Court, are chief landowners. The soil is loam and Weston-super-:Vlare arriTe at 4.30 a.m.; delivered at

clay, and the subsoil is clay. The chief crops are wheat 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 9.24 p.m. Banwell is the nearest

and some land in pasture. The area is 1,877 acres; rateable money order office & Weston-super-Mare the nearest tela-

value, £4,638 ; the population in 1881 was 344· graph office. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid

ELBOROUGH is a hamlet and manor, I mile east, belonging National Schools (mixed), erected in 1873 in the Gothic

to Sir J. H. G. Smyth bart. style, by voluntary subscription, at a cost of about £850,

OLDMIXON is a hamlet and manor, 1 mile west and 2 miles for 100 children; average attendance, 40 ; William Alfred

east from Bleadon and Uphill station, on the main line of Sharp, master

Bisdee Alfred H. Hutton court COMMERCIAL. Honeychurch William, shoe maker
Bisdee Edward Herbert, The Grange Amesbury James, beer retailer House Waiter, farmer
Bisdee Miss, Manor house, Oldmixon Baber Samuel, farmer Palmer Ann {Mrs.), Post office
Durston John Bisdee Sydney,farmer,The Grange farm
Edwards Arthur P Brown James, farmer, Oldmixon Palmar Samuel, carpenter
Edwards Mrs Davis Daniel, farmer Parker Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Furnivall Misses Edwards Arthur P. land agent Pople James, blacksmith
Gibbs Rev. George Henry B. A. Rectory Gane William, haulier
Paterson Rev. Waiter George B.A. Hemans Sidney, farmer, Hutton Court Porter James, farmer
Shute Robert, farmer & blacksmith
[curate], Moor Lane cottage farm
Thorne John, farmer

ILCHESTER is a small town and parish, situated on will hold 200 persons. Here is an almshouse for 12 men,

the river Ivel and at the junction of the roads from Chard founded in 1426 by Robert Veel; the inmates are provided
and Yeovil to Shepton Mallet, 127! miles from London, 5 with clothing, fire, medical attendance and four shi1Jingsper

north-west from Yeovil, 3 north-east from Martock and 6 week; ineome £300; the same charity provides, by a grant

south-west from Sparkford station on the Frome, Yeovil and to the National school, education for the children of the in-
Weymouth branch of the Great Western railway, in the habitantsofthistown. Kingshamistheresidenceof George

Southern division of the county, Tintinhull hundred, Yeovil Tuson esq. The principal landowners are William Ernest
petty sessional division, union and county court district, Brymer esq. and E. J. E. Wyndham esq. The soil is loamy;

rural deanery of Ilchester, archdeaconry of Taunton and the subsoil, gravel and clay. The area is 678 acres; rateable

diocese of Bath and Wells. The corporation, created by value, £2,2o1; the population in 1881 was 683.
charter in 1289, was abolished in 1886 under the provisions Parish Clerk, Albert Ayres.
of the Municipal Corporations Act of 1883 (46 & 47 V1c. cap. SocK DENNIS, I mile south, formerly extra-parochial, is
18). This place gives the title of earl to the Fox-Strangways now a parish, in Yeovil union; area, 666 acres; rateable
family. The town has a very ancient and memorable origin, value, £1,339; population in 1881 was 28.

and was at one time the county town of Somerset, and had PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office.-

as many as five churches, only one now remaining. The Josiah Parsons, postmaster. Letters arrive from Taunton
church of St. Mary is an ancient building of stone in 1he at 6.20 a.m. & 4.50 p.m. ; dispatched at 12 noon & 6.20
Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of three p.m.; box closes at 11.50 a.m. & 6.10 p.m
bays, south aisle, west porch, and an octagonal western INSURANCE AGENTS:-

tower containing a clock and 5 8ells: the nave was much West of England Fire & Life, J. & W. Baker
altered in the Early Perpendicular era, and at the restora- Westminster Fire, S. Y. Brake, Limington
tion in x88o part of its original arcading was found to have PuBLIC OFFICERS:-
been built up in the Perpendicular walling: the original Assistant Overseer, George Bennett, West street
chancel remains, and contains a beautiful east window and Clerk & Receiver of Ilchester Almshouse Trustees, Robert

a memorial tablet to Mary Raymond, ob. 1639, wife of Baker
William Raymond of this town, and daughter of John Every Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, 3rd District, Yeovil
esq. servant to King Henry VIII. Edward VI. and Queen Union, George Daunt L.R.C.P. & s.Edin. Ivel house
Mary, and sergeant-at-arms to Queen Elizabeth: the church ScHOOLS:-

was restored in 1879-80, when the south aisle was added at A School Board of 5 members was formed April 6, 1875,
a cost of £x,6oo: all the windows are stained, and there are Northover being contributory with 2 members; Robert
400 sittings. The register dates from the year 1690. The Baker, clerk to the board

living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £130, net Board (boys & girls), erected with master's house in 1878,

yearly value £176, including 48 acres of glebe, with house, for 90 children; average attendance, 71; G. W. Robin-
in the gift of the Bishop of London, and held since 1887 by son, master
the Rev. William Nicolls M.A. of Hertford College, Oxford. National (infants), for 200 children; average attendance,
The Congregational chapel has 200 sittings. The Wesleyan 64; Miss Sarah Millard, mistress
chapel was built in 185o, and will seat 200 persons. The CARRIER.-Arthur Abbot, to Glastonbury, mon. wed. & sat.;
Town Hall, a spacious building situated in the Market place, to Yeovil, tues. & fri

Ilchester. Daunt George L.R.C.P. & s. Edin. Pym Henry, harness maker, West st

Daunt George, Ivel house physician & surgeon, medical officer & Sibley Hy. beer retailer & baker, West st

N icolls Rev. William M.A. Rectory public vaccinator, 3rd district, Yeovil Stone John, carpenter & wheelwright

union, Ivel house Stuckey's Banking Co. (William Fredk.

COMMERCIAL. Edwards Harry, mason, West street Baker, agent); draw on Robarts,

Ansty Edwin, grocer, Church street Evans Henry, carpenter, West street Lubbock & Co. London E c

Baker Robert, clerk & receiver of alms- Gillingham Thirza(Mrs.),baker,Westst Sugg Henry, shoe maker, West street

house t.rustees Hands Edwin Jame~, grocer, West st Tanner Edward, baker, Market place

Baker "\\'illiam Frederick, agent to Harding Samuel, blacksmith, Church st Tuson George, solicitor, Kingshams

Stuckey's Banking Co. & to Mid Hockey Fredk. Geo. Bull inn, Market pl Vincent Frank Collier, grocer, West st

Somerset Building Society Ilcheste:r Coffee Tavern (Charles Free- Wilson Eli, draper; & at Yeovil

Bennett George, grocer, West street man, manager), West street Yard Mary (Mrs.), Swan P.H

Browning Silas (Mrs.),baker, Church st Lane Albert, grocer

Cox John, farmer, "\\'est street Look Ernest Edward,farmer, Market pi Sock Dennis.

Culliford J ohn,Dolphin commercial inn, Pardy John, grocer & tailor Bradley Hy.farmer,Wyndham Sock frm

& butcher, West street Payne Susan (Mrs.),Cowinn,Church st Hussey Wm. farmer, Sock Dennis farm

ILE (or IsLE) ABBOTTS is a village and parish, situ-1 from the year 1685. The living is a vicarage, yearly value
ated on the west bank of the river Ile, 3~ miles east from £xoo, including 5 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Dean and
Hatch station on the Chard branch and 6 south-west from 1 Chapter of Bristol, and held since 1858 by the Rev. Edward.
Langport station on the Yeovil branch of the Great Wes- William Saul M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, who resides at

tern railway, and 5 north from Ilminster, in the Bridgwater Hatch. Here is a Baptist chapel. The charities are £5 ¥·

division of the county, hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, yearly. H.R.H. the Duke of Cornw.Ul, who is lord of the
Ilminster petty sessional division, Langport union and manor, the Uttermare family, and Mr. Pine are the principal
county court district, Ilminster district of the rural deanery landowners. The soil is gravelly, and the subsoil is blue lias
of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taunton and d1ocese of Bath stone. The chief crops are wheat, beans and oats. The

and Wells, The church of St. Mary is a building of stone area is 1,135 acres; rateable value, £1,737; the population
in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of five in 1881 was 347-
bays, aisles, transept, south porch and an embattled western STEWLEY is a hamlet and tithing, situated midway be-

tower containing 5 bells: the church was restored in 1875 at tween Ashill and Broadway, about 4 miles south-west of lie

a cost of £3,000, and has 170 sitting&. The register dates Abbotts.

252 ILE . ABBOTTS. SOMERSETSHIRE. [KELLY'S.

Sextoness, Mrs. Phoobe Elizabeth Bostock. A School Board of 5 members was formed November 14,

PosT OFFICE.-Miss Anna Patten, receiver. Letters arrive 1874; J. E. G. Sandford, North Curry, clerk to the

through Taunton at 6.45 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. board

The nearest money order office is at Hatch. Nearest tele- Board School (mixed), erected in 1g75, for so children ; ·
INsgUrRaAphNCoEffiAceG,EHNTa:t~cPhhroaoilnwiaxyFsitraet,ioAn. Tapp & Son
average attendance, 35 i Miss Matilda Newberry, mistress

Barrington Edward, Northalls farm Grigg -,fanner, Folly farm, Stewley Matravers Edwin, farmer

Dyker Rev.Jas.[Baptist], Stewley lodge Giles John, farmer, Stewley Matravers Levi, dairyman

Humphrey William Goodland William, farmer Mear Benjamin, farmer, Stewley

Tapp Abraham Hallett Richd.farmer,HigherWoodland Patten Anna (Miss), baker, Post office

Tapp Robert Hooper Robert, thatcher Patten Heman, farmer, Two Bridges
Humphry Edward, farmer, Woodlands I Tapp Abraham & Son, blacksmiths,

COMMERCIAL. Humphry John, farmer, Manor farm agricultural implement manufactrs.

Adams William, dairyman, Woodlands Lilleycrap William, blacksmith & car- machine owners & commission agents

BarringtonEdwd.yeoman,Northalls frm penter, Stewley Targett Charles, dairyman, Broadfields

Brinson Thomas, farmer, Stewley Lee James, baker

ILE BREWERS is a village and parish, situated on the register dates from the year 1692. The living is a vicarage,

east bank of the river Ile, 5 miles north-east from Hatch tithe rent-charge £183, net yearly value £182, including

station on the Chard branch and 6 south from Langport 15 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of H.R.H. the
station on the Yeovil branch of the Great Western railway, Prince of Wales, and held since x884 by the Rev. John Cole.

5 north from Ilminster and xo east-by-south from Taun- H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall is lord of the manor and chief
ton, in the Bridgwater division of the county, hundred of landowner. The soil is clayey, and the subsoil is sandstone.
Abdick and Bulstone, Ilminster petty sessional division, The chief crops are wheat, beans and oats. The area is

union and county court district of Langport, Ilminster dis- x,313 acres; rateable valu6l £2,307; the population in x88x
trict of the rural deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of was 316.
Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. Under the provi· Parish Clerk, John Young.

sions of the Divided Parishes Act, 1882 (45 and 46 Vie. c. Le5ntteeaprr.semstht. rteolTueghgheraTpnaheuaonrfetfoisctne,maHrorainvteceyhartoa7ridl.w3e0rayao. smfftiac.te;iodinsisaptatcHhaetdcha;t
58), portions of the former parish of North and South Bra-
don were incorporated in this parish Mar. 25, 1885. The
church of All Saints is a building of stone in the Gothic
style. rebuilt in 1861, and consisting of chancel, nave, south WALL LETTER Box, cleared at 5 p.m

porch and a tower on the south side with spire and con- School (mixed), erected in x869, for 6o children; average
taining 4 bells : there are sittings for 190 persons. The attendance, 25 ; Miss Annie Browne, mistress

Cole Rev. John, Vicarage Garland Theophilus, farmer Slade Sidney, farmer, Bradon farm
Snow William, dairyman
COMMERCIAL. Jeffery John, farmer 'fawning Simeon, thatcher
Manning George Henry, carpenter Walker RIChard (Mrs.), beer retailer

Clyde Chales,farmer,Bushl<'urlong farm Manning Thomas, blacksmith Young John, farmer

Dally Robert, shopkeeper Shells Thomas, dairyman

Edwards Sidney, miller (water) Slade Edwin, farmer, Walrond park

ILMINSTER is a small market town and parish, and August. for cattle. Dillington House, standing in a beautiful

head of a petty sessional division, situated on the river Ile, park of about 47 acres, is the seat of Arthur Vaughan Ban-

and at the junction of the roads from London, Bristol and ning Vaughan-Lee esq. who is lord of the manor and chief

Bath to Exeter, Plymouth and Falmouth, 135 miles from landowner. The Shrubbery, the seat of James William

London, 12 south-east from Taunton and 5 north from Shepherd esq. J.P. is a substantial building of Ham Hill

Chard, with a station three-quarters of a mile west on the stone, standing on an eminence, in grounds of about 25

Chard branch of the Great Western railway, in the Bridg- acres. The soil is partly sandy loam and gravelly clay, very

water division of the county, hundred of Abdick and Bul- fruitful, and comprises arable, meadow, pasture and orchard

stone, Chard union and county court district, Ilminster land. The area is 3,88o acres; rateable value, £16,559;

district of the rural deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of the population in x88x was 3,281.

Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The town corn- Sexton, Jabez Hallett.

prises two long streets, running ?n~ f~om east ~o west, and The parish comprises the hamlets of SEA (1 mile south).
the other f~om north to south: It .IS hg~ted With gas by a CROCK STREET (3 west), PEASMARSH (2 south], HORTON (rt
company, IS well paved and supplied With excellent water. west) WINTERHAY (! mile north-west) HIGHER HoRTON'

The c~urch of St. Mar~ is a noble cruc~form building of (2 w~st), ASHWELL ( 1 north), and DrLr.'INGTON (xi north-
stone m the Early English and Perpendicular styles, con- eTaoswt)~ and is divided into the following tithings :-CHURCH~
sisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transept, north and south WINTERHAY HORTON and HILLCOJ\IBJ<J.
o:,porches and a western tower ~ith pinnacles, containin~ a PosT, 'M. 0. & T. S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office.-
cl?ck and 6 bell.s: the church IS snrro.unded on three SI~es Charles Pope Chapple, postmaster. Letters delivered at
With a galler.y: IT?- ~he north transept I.s an altar tomb. WI~h
b~asse~, to ~1r Willlam Wadhat:? and his m?ther (or wife m 77.&159&.30s. a.m. & 4 p. m. ; dispatched at 12. 15 noon, 3· 35,
Wid~w s attue), c. ~440; thesemclude effigieS of bot~ un~er 4o p.m. Money order!'! are granted & paid from
a t.np.le canopy, w.Ith embattle~ entabl!lture, margmal m-
~cr1ptwn, now mutilate~, and eight Lati~ verses: here also 9 a.m. till6 p.m.; saturdays, 9 a.m. till 7 p.m
IS another altar tomb With brasse~, to ~ICh~las Wadham, of WALL LETTER BoxEs, High street, cleared 10.45 a.m. &.
Merefield, Somerset, ob. 1609, With effigy m armour, and
6.so p.m. ; West st.reet, 6. 45 p.m. ; East street, II a.m.
& 6. 50 p.m.; Horton Green, 6. 2o p.m. No sunday col-
lections

his widow Dorothy, ob. 1618, also with effigy; these were COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR THE lLMINSTER PETTY SESSIONAL
the founders in 1610 of Wadham College, Oxford: tbe DIVISION.
chancel was restored in x883 at the expense of the late V. H.
Vaughan-Lee esq. : there are sittings for 6oo persons. The Blake William esq. D.L. Bridge, South Petherton 8.0.

register dates from the year x66o. The living is a vicarage, chairman

average tithe rent-charge £46o, net yearly value £248, in- Bridport Viscount K.C.B., D.L. Cricket lodge, Cricket St.

cluding 4 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Major Thomas, Chard
Barrett, and held since 1877 by the Rev. James Rynd Bris- Hood Col. Hon. Arthur Wellington Alexander Nelson, Cricket.

coe M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. The living is a Royal lodge, Cricket St. Thomas, Chard

Peculiar : until lately the vicar held his own visitations, and Blake Major Malachi Locke, Bridge, South Petherton 8.0

was not under the jurisdiction of the bishop. The Congre- Combe Richard Thomas esq. Earnshill, Taunton

gational chapel is a building of stone, seating 350 persons. Elton Charles Isaac esq. M.P., Q.C,, F.S.A. Whitestaunton

The Wesleyan chapel is a building of stone, erected in 1887, Manor house, Chard

and has 400 sittings. The Unitarian chapel was built in Gore-Langton Henry Powell esq. Hatch park, Hatch Beau-

1718, and will seat 450 persons. A Cemetery of 2 acres champ, Taunton

was formed in 18591 about 1 mile from the town, and is Henley Lieut.-Col. Henry Cornish, Leigh house, Chard
under the control of a Burial Board of 9 members : there are Hoskins Col. Arthur Reginald R.A. King Ina's palace, South
• two mortuary chapels. There are charities of £17 yearly, Petberton S. 0

distributed to the poor. The Conservative Club, Silver King William esq. Burridge house, Chard

street, established in x886, comprises reading and recreation Langdon Maj. John Churchill Stuckey, Parrock'slodge,Chard

rooms, the former, when required, serving as a meeting Langworthy Lieut.-Col. Vincent Upton, Horton, Ilminster

room, holding 300 persons. The town has a small brewery, Lean James esq. Oaklands, South Petherton S.O

large flax and tow works, cloth manufactory, rope, brick and Raban Geo. esq. Beauchamp ldg. Hatch Beauchamp, Taunton

tile and collar factories. The market days are Wednesday Shepherd James William esq. The Shrubbery, Ilminster

and Saturday. The fair is held the last Wednesday in Speke William esq. Jordans, Ilminster

DIRECTORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. ILMINSTER. 2.53

Trevilian Edwin Brooke Cely- esq. Midelney place, Drayton, Inspector of Nuisances for Ilminster District of Chard Rural

Langport R. S.O Sanitary Authority, William Fenner, West street

Vaughan-Lee Arthur Vanghan Hanning esq. Dillington park Inspector of Weights & Measures, Wm. Uriab. Self, Market pl

Clerk to the Magistrates, John Baker, North street Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, No. 3 C District,

Petty Sessions are held at the Court house the last wed. in Langport Union & No. 3 Ilminster District, Chard Union,

each month except Aug. then fri. following if in Aug. but Charles Munden, Silver street

if in Sept. last wed. but one in Aug. at 12 o'clock noon. Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, No. 1 Ilminster Dis-

The following places are included in the Petty Sessional trict, Chard Union, Edward Stephens L.R.C.P.Edin. West

Division :-Ashill, Barrington, Beercrocombe, Broadway, street; No. 2 Ilminster District, Chard Union, Charles

Buckland St. Mary, Chard, Chaffcombe, Chillington, Hawkes Marwood Mules, Silver street

Combe St. Nicholas, Cudworth, Cricket St. Thomas, Relieving & Vaccination Officer & Registrar of Births &

Cricket Malherbie, Curry Mallett, Curry Rivell, Donyatt, Deaths for Ilminster District, Chard Union, Richard

Dowlish Wake, Dinnington, Drayton, Earnshill, Fivehead, Love, East street

Hatch .Beauchamp, Ilminster, Ilton, De Abbotts, Ile Surveyor to Ilminster Highway District Board, Bernard

Brewers, Kingsbury Episcopi, Kingstone, Knowle St. John Shier, West street

Giles, Puckington, Stocklinch, Shepton Beauchamp, South Superintendent of Police, William Uriah Self, Market place

Petherton, Seavington SS. Mary & 1.\Iichael, Swell, West Superintendent Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages

Dowlish, Whitelackington, Whitestaunton & Winsham for Chard Union District, Henry Paul!, Cross house

INSURANCE AGENTS :-- Treasurer Highway Board, William R. Lidderdale, Stuckey's
Alliance Fire & Life, A. B. Crees, Wilts & Dorset Bank &
Bank
W. R. Lidderdale, Stuckey's Bank PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of Services:-
Atlas Fire & Life & British Law Fire, M. B. Baker, North st
St. Mary's Church, Rev. James Rynd Briscoe M. A. vicar;
County Fire, R. T. Waiter, West street Rev. John Hagley Rntter M.A. curate; II a.m. & 6.30
Economic Life, E. F. Paull, West street
Edinburgh Life, W. R. Lidderdale, Stuckey's Bank p.m. ; fri. 7.30 p.m
Phoonix Fire, H. Sheppard, Silver street & C. Hill, Hollo- Congregational, Rev. William Phillips Duke, minister; II

way road, Lopen a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; wed. 8 p.m
"Provident Life, R. T. Waiter, West street
Railway Passengers' Accident, W. R. Lidderdale, Stuckey's Unitarian, Rev. Alfred Muller Holden, minister; n a.m.

Hank & 6.30 p.m
Wesleyan, Rev. Arthur Holland, minister; n a.m. & 6.30
Royal Exchange, W. R. Lidderdale, Stuckey's Bank
p.m. ; tues. 7.30
Scottish Widows' Life Fund, H. J. Paull, Cross house SCHOOLS:-
Sun Fire & Life, H. M. Hext, Silver street
West of England Fire & Life, H. Paull, Cross house A School Board of 5 members was formed October 3rd,
1874; Henry Paull, Cross house, clerk to the board; F.
PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS : - Taylor, North street, attendance officer
Cemetery, Hy. Paul!, Cross house, clerk to the burial board
County Police Station, Market place, William Uriah Self, The Ilminster Grammar School was founded in 1549 in the
reign of Edward VI.; the income is about £870 yearly:
superintendent, I sergeant & 2 constables it was dissolved in December, 1873, through the Endowed
Court House, William Uriah Self, keeper
Masonic Hall, North street, Charles P. Chapple, sec Schools Act & reorganized by the Endowed School Com-
West Romerset Yeomanry Cavalry (B Troop), Major J. C.
missioners in I874; in its stead were instituted schools for
Langdon; Sergeant-Major Wm. Fenner, drill instructor
boys & girls: the boys' school was erected on a new site in
1879 : Hanning's charity of £52 yearly is for exhibitions
Grammar (boys), erected in I879, for roo boys; average

attendance, so; Rev. William John Woodward M.A. head

PUBLIC OFFICERS : - master; Mr. Wainwright, second master

Assistant Overseer, Henry Batten, East street Grammar (girls), in the old school, built about 1586, to

Certified Bailiff under the Law of Distress Amendment Act, bold 100 children ; average attendance, 7S ; Miss Caroline

1888, Henry Marwood Hext, Silver street E. Hairsine mistress

Certifying Factory Surgeon, Charles Hawkes Marwood Board (boys), built in 1877, for 200 children; average

Mules, Silver street attendance, 170 ; Thomas Bird Edmonds, master

Clerk to the Ilminster Highway District Board & to the Board, Horton (mixed), erected in 1877, for 8o children;

Governors of the Ilminster Endowed Schools & to the average attendance, 68; Miss Elizabeth Stoodley, mistress

Commissioner of Taxes, John Baker, North street National (girls & infants), built in I853, for 300 children;

Collector of Taxes, Henry Sheppard, Silver street average attendance, 90 girls & ISO infants; Miss Jessie

Government Emigration Agent for Somersetshire, Charles Angel, mistress ; Miss Emily Helps, infants' mistress

Pope Chapple, Post office CARRIERS TO CHARD.-Grabham & Co. daily

Inland Revenue Officer, M. M. Costello, Silver street Railway Station, W. G. Hole, station master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Lawrence Gilbert Monta!!u, East street Vine Edward, Ditton street

Baker John, North street LidderdaleWilliarnRobertson,Market pl Wainwright -,(secd.mas.)Grammr.schl

.Baker John Collins, Bay house, East st Mare Charles James, West street Wallbridge Mrs. West end

.Baker Malachi Blake, North street Maurice Arthur Pryce, Chilworthy ho Walliker Vincent Thomas, Cornhill

Baker Miss, Town end Mules Chas. Hawkes Marwood,Silver st Warry George William, Horton green

.Bond Mrs. Silver street Munden Charles, Silver stree~ Webb Mrs. Silver street

.Briscoe Rev. James Rynd M.A. [vicar] Munden Miss, East street Wembridge Mrs. East street

Bryant Misses, Ditton street Murray Mrs. Laurel bank ·wheadon Robert Poole, Leicester house

Hulgin John, Fairfield house, Horton Osborne Rev. George [Congregational], WoodwardRev.Wm.Jn.M.A.(head mast.

Cannicott John, West street Broadway hill of Grammar schoolfor boys),Silver st

Castle John Edwin, Lesters hill Paull Frederick Reginald, Cross house COMMERCIAL.

Cbapple Frank George, Ditton street Paull Henry, Cross house Adams & Dening (Mrs.), bakers, East st

Connett Thomas, West street Paull Henry John, Cross house Andow Theodore, Crown P.H. West st

Cooper Mrs. Acacia villa, West street Paull Joseph, Summerlands Baker Henry, blacksmith, West street

Crees Albert Basil, Heath villa, West st Paull Mrs. Hernelea, West street Baker John, solicitor & perpetual com-

Duke Miss, East street Radford William, Hort-on missioner for oaths, clerk to commis-

Duke Rev. William Phillips [Congrega- Relleen William, West street sioners of taxes, highway board &

tional], Cornhill Rowe Samuel, Ditton street governors of endowed schools & to

Edmonds Thomas Bird, Ditton street Rutter Rev. John HagleyM.A. [curate], the magistrates, North street

Every Mrs. West street Ditton street Baker John Collins, solicitor, North st

Gadd Mrs. West street Rutter John, Ditton street Baker Malachi Blake, solicitor & agent

Goodridge Miss, Silver street Scott Miss, Grasmere to Atlas & British Law Fire Insurance

-Grabham James, North street Shepherd Frederick Geo. The Chantry Cos. North street

Hall Rev. Henry Arthur M.A. West st Shepherd JamesWm.J.P.The Shrubbery Baker Samuel, jun. farmer, Sea
Rayhurst Mrs. Townsend
Stephens Edward, West st~et Baker Thos. linen collar maker, East st

Heckworthy Wm. Richd. Hazelwell ho Stephens Isaac Amor, Greenway house, BALDWIN WM. EDWARDS WOOD

.Hext Henry Marwood, West street Dowlish Ford M.R.c.v.s. veterinary surg. Market pi

.Hine John Petty, Beacon cott. New rd Stephens Mrs. East street Barber John, saddler & harness maker,

.Holden Rev. Alfred Muller [Unitarian], Still Mrs. Hazelwell lodge London house

West street Stoodley Mrs. East street Barber Petr.Blake,currier,Strawbrry.bk

Holland Rev. Arthur[WesleyanJ,East st Taylor Mrs. Hazelwell Bartlett Theophilns, baker, Ditton st

Hosegood Frank E. Ashwell farm Templeman Mrs. Sea Batten Henry, tailor & woollen draper

Knight Miss, Broadway hill Turner Henry William, Horton & assistant overseer, East street

Langworthy Lieut.-Col. Vincent Upt-on Vaughan-Lee Arthur Vanghan Hanning Bond Carry & Emmie (Misses), dress

.J.P. Horton .J.P. Dillington park makers, Cornhill

254 lLMINSTER. SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLY's

Bond Jered, blacksmith, Broadway hill Hockaday Waiter, shoemaker, & coffee I Poole .Alexander, builder, New road

Bond John Hall, baker, West street tavern, Ditton street Porter Phillip, watch maker, Silver st

Bonning Frederick, seedsman, East st Holbrook James, shopkeeper, Silver st Preston James, Bell inn, High street

Bradford & Sons, general merchants Hosegood !<'rank E.farmer,Ashwell farm Purnell Robert, beer retailer, West st

(Samuel Rowe, agent) Hosegood Obed, farmer, Dillington Radford William, farmer, Horton

Brown Annie (Miss), shopkeeper, Cross Hucklebridge Mary .Ann (Miss), milli- Rimand Eleanor (Mrs.), Dolphin P.H.

Bryant Wm. Mead, draper, Market pl ner, North street Silver street

Callander William Wright, chemist & Hurlstone Hy.rope &twine ma. High st Russell Joseph, Lamb inn, Horton

tobacconist, Market place Hutchings, Shepherd & Co. flax & tow Samways William Thomas, grocer, East

Cemetery (Henry Paull, clerk & regis- spinners, Dowlish Ford mills street & West street

trar), New road HutchingsAsher, paperhanger,Silverst Sanders John Fletcher, stationer &;

Channell Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Ilminster Gas Light & Coke Co.Limited chemist, Silver street

Broadway hill (Edwd. Francis Paull, sec.),. West st Sandy Alfred, pork butcher, East street

Cbapman Joseph, butcher, Silver street Jeffery Edwd. baker & confctnr. East st Sansom John, miller (water), Sea mills

Chapple CharlesPope,bookseller, printer Johnson & Co. boot & shoe dlrs.Silver st Self William Uriah, superintendent of

· & emigration agt. Post office, Cornhll KiddleSarah(Miss),lodgingho.West end county police station & inspector of

Chard Thos. Norman, boot ma. Silverst Lambert Robert, photographer, West st weights & measures, Market place

Chase Wm.G.B. George hotel,Marketpl Langport &Mid-Somerset Benefit Build- Shepherd l"rederick George, flax & tow

Clarke James, farmer, Peasemarsh ing Society (William R. Lidderdale, spinner, see Hutchings,Shepherd & Co

Coleman Elizabeth(Mrs. ),FiveDials P.H. agent), Stuckey's Bank Sheppard Hy. collector of taxes, Silver st

Horton Legg .Albert William, mineral water Sheppard William Henry, draper, milli-

Connett John, dairyman, Dillington manufacturer, Silver street ner, tailor & outfitter, hosier, glover,

Conservative Club (E. Ash, hon. sec.; Legg Daniel, carpenter, Town end family mourning,boots&shoes,Silver st

W. R. Lidderdale, treasurer),Silverst Lidderdale William Robertson,manager Shier Bernard John, surveyor to Ilmins-

Cook A. K. linen collar maker, High st Stuckey's Bank, treasurer to highway ter highway district board, West st

Coombes Rt. wood turner, Court Barton board, school & burial boards & Sibley Alfred, basket maker, Ditton st

Coombes Waiter, builder, Rose cottage National schools, Market place SibleyGeo. Chas. brick & tile maker,Cross

Cooper & Dwelly, coach bldrs. Ditton st Love Richard, registrar of births, deaths Sibley Jesse, basket maker, West street

Costello M. M. inland rev. off. Silver st & marriages, & relieving & vaccina- Small John William, carpenter & black-

County Police Station (William Uriah tion officer forIlminster district,Chard smith, North street

Self, supt. ), Market place union, East street Southwood Charles, farmer, Cross farm

Cranfield Chas. Jas. plumber, Ditton st Lumbard Robert, farmer, Chilworthy Southwood James, beer retailer,Silver st

Cranfield James, shoe maker, Ditton st ManningWaltr.assuranceagnt. West end Sparks Benjamin, plwnber, East street

Cranton Chas. chimney sweeper,East st Marks Caleb, farmer, Town end Standerwick Martha (Miss), dress

Crocker William, tailor, East street Marshalsea Albert Jn.coach bldr.East st maker, West street

Dare Wm. Abraham Gould, land agent Masonic Hall (Charles P. Chapple, sec.), Stephens Edward r..R.c. P.Edin. phy-

& steward to W.Speke esq.J.P.Horton North street sician,& medical officer & public vacci-

DavisHy.Newton,shopkpr.Broadway hll Mitchell Francis & Co. wine & spirit nator, No. I Ilminster district, Chard

Day Frdk.F.linen collar maker, Ditton st merchants, Market place union,& medical officer of health,Chard

Dening Charity (Miss),shpkpr.Ditt.on st Mules&Munden, surgeons, Silver street rural sanitary authority, West street

Dening Charlotte (Mrs.), baker, see Mules Charles Hawkes Marwood (firm, Stone Joal Diment, White Horse, East st

.Adams & Dening Mules &Munden), surgeon, & certify- Stuckey's Banking Co. (branch) (William

Dinham Eli,saddler&harness ma.East st ing factory surgeon & medical official Robertson Lidderdale,manager),Mar-

Dinham Fredk. beer retailer, Ditton st & public vaccinator, No. 2 Ilminster ket place; draw on Robarts, Lubbock

DinhamGeo. (Mrs. ),bE'..er rtlr.Broadwy.hl district, Chard union, Silver street & Co. London E c

Dollen Wm. F.miller(water), Eames mill Mullins Noah, farmer, Winterhay TauntonManufacturingCo.collarmanu-

Edwards Lilly & Mary (Misses), milli- Mullins William, dairyman, Winterhay facturers, Silver street

ners, West street MundenCharles(firm,Mules&Munden), Taylor John & Gabriel, collar manufac-

Elswood Frank, Swan (The) family & surgeon, & medical officer & public turers, Cornhill

commercial hotel & posting house, vacl'inator, No. 3 C district, Langport 'faylor & Son, plumbers &c. ·west street

Ditton street union & No. 3 Ilminster district, Taylor .Arthur, hair dresser & shop-
• Elswood Susan (Mrs.), beer rtlr. East st Chard union, Silver street
keeper, West street

Elswood William, beer retailer, Cross MurleyKate(Miss),dress maker,Silverst Taylor Frederick, hair dresser & school

Emms Wm.M.R.c.v.s.vet.surgn.Ditton st MurleyWalt.paintr.&paprhngr.Silver st attendance officer, North street

Every Jane Cornish (Miss), bookseller, Palmer William Henry, butcher, East st Taylor William Henry, builder, Silver st

East street Parrett Edgar James, grocer & wine & Thorne Josiah, boot maker, West street

Fenner William, inspector of nuisances spirit dealer,& agent for W.&A.Gilbey, Thorne Thomas, blacksmith, East street

for Ilminster district of Chard rural wine & spirit merchants, Market place Trott George Masters,grocer,East street

sanitary authority, West street ParsonsElizh.(Mrs.),dressmakr.Silverst Tucker Mary .Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper,

Frankland James, commercial traveller, Paul Edward, shopkeeper, Silver street Strawberry bank

Ditton street Paul Edwin Edmund, tin smith,Silver st Turner Elizabeth (Mrs. ),coal merchant,

Frampton Saml. china dealer, Silver st Paul Thos. W.chimney sweeper, Silver st Station road

Gale George, farmer, Rose mill PaullChas.Mortimer,farmr. KnotOak ho Vincent Sa.ml. Walter,farmer, Winterhay

Goodall Wm. boot &shoe dealr. East st Paull Edward l<'rancis, solicitor, ·west Wakley Wm. cabinet maker, West st

Grabham & Co. carriers street; & at Taunton Walden Thomas, grocer, East street

Grammar School (Boys') (Rev.William Paull I<'redk. cabinet maker, Market place Waiter Richd. Tertius B. A. solictr. West st

John Woodward M.A. head master; Paull Frederick Reginald, solicitor,Cross Warry George William, civil engineer &

-Wainwright, second master) house; & at Chard surveyor, Horton green

Grammar School (Girls') (Miss Caroline Paull Henry, solicitor, clerk to burial & West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry (B

E. Hairsine, mistress) school boards, perpet11al commis- troop) (MajorJ. C. Langdon; Serg·t.-

Grimster Thomas, shoe maker, West st sioner &commissioner for oaths; clerk Major Wm. Fenner, drill instructor)

Ham Albert, organist & professor of to the guardians & rural sanitary an- Wheadon Edward, grocer, Silver street

music, East street thority & school attendance .1£ assess- Wheadon Robert Poole, general draper,

Hansford John & Son, watch makers & ment committees ; superintendent tailor & outfitter, millinery, mantle&.

jewellers, Market square registrar of births, deaths & mar- dress- making, hosier, hatter, glover,

Harwood Joseph, boot maker, North st riages for Chard union district ; & ladies' habit maker & boot, shoe &

Hayball Emanuel, beer retailer,Ashwell Conservative registration agent for le~ging dealer, family mourning &c.

Haycraft James, baker, North street Combe St. Nicholas & Curry Mallet Leicester house

Heckworthy William Richard, corn polling districts, Cross house WhiteHarriet(Miss),dressma.Station rd

merchant, Hazelwell house Paull Henry John, solicitor, Cross house; Willy Thomas, farmer & rope & twine

Heard Alfred William, grocer & iron- & at Chard manufacturer, Sea

monger, Silver street Paull JosefYh, brewer &maltster, West st Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited

Hellier Waiter, farmer, Horton Perry Jane & Emily (Misses), china & (branch) (Albert Basil Crees, mana-

Hext Henry Mar wood, .auctioneer, ap- glass warehouEe, Market place ger), Market place ; draw on London

praiser & agent Sun Fire & Life Office Phillips John, Nelson .Arms, East street &WestminsterBankLimited,London

& bailiff under the Law of Distress Pike James, boot maker, West street Wiscombe Waiter, pork butcher, West st

' Amendment Act, 1888, Silver street Pittman George, Railway hotel

ILTON is a village and parish, situated on the river Ile, sessional division, Chard union and county court district,

2 miles north from Ilminster station on the Chard branch of Ilminster district of the rural deanery of Crewkerne, arch-

the Great Western railway, in the Bridgwaterdivision of the deaconry of Taunton and diocese .of Bath and Wells. The
county, hundred of Abdick ~~d Bulstone, Ilminster petty church of St. Peter is an edifice of stone in the Early Deco-

J_.DJRECTORY. SOl\iERSETSHI RE. KEL.<:;'fOY. 255

rated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel with charities of £xo4 yearly value, and almshouses for 17 aged
north aisle, nave, north aisle, south transept and a tower on people. Within this parish is the ancient manor house of
the south side, adjoining the transept, containing 4 bells: Merrifield,formerlytheresidenceofSirNicholasandDorothy

the base of the tower forms a porch :in the chancel is a brass Wadham, founders in 1610 of the college of that name in
with effigy in shroud to Nicholas Wadham, ob. 1508, son of Oxford~ the moat and the basement portion of one of the
Nicholas Wadham, captain of Carisbrook Castle and the Isle towers are still in existence. The trustees of the late Earl of

of Wight, 14 Henry VII. (1498-9), who was grandfather of Egremont own the manor andchiefportionof the land. The
Nicholas Wadham, founder of Wadham College, Oxford: the soil is stone rush and the subsoil is gravel. The chief crops
church was restored in x86o and has sittings for 250 persons. are wheat, beans, oats and flax. The area is 1,719 acres;

The register dates from the year 1642. The living is a vie- rateable value, £2,794; the population in 1881 was 425.
arage, average tithe rent-charge £236, net yearly value PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Charlotte Player, receiver. Letters are
£161, including 12 acres of ~lebe, with residence, in thegift received through Ilminster, which is also the nearest

of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held since 1879 by the money order & telegraph office, delivered at 8.30 a.m. ;
Rev. Robert Blake Poole ~l.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford. dispatched at 4.50 p.m
There is an appropriate tithe and glebe, of about the yearly 1 National School (mixed), erected in 1875, for 8o children;
value of £xoo. Here is a Wesleyan chapeL There are average attendance, 57; Miss Emily Murrow, mistress

Poole Rev. Robert Blake M.A. Vicarage Carter James, dairyman, Silvench Hunt Joseph Joel Harman, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Crabb Samuel, farmer, Ilford Jeffery George, dairyman

Adams John, earpenter Dean Samuel, dairyman, Silvench Jeffery John, farmer, Ilford

Adams Robert, farmer Denner Thomas, farmer, Woodhouse Jouxson Thomas Edwin, shoe maker

Adams William, wheelwright Downton Thomas, farmer, Rapps Matthews George, haulier

Bindon John, farmer, Cad's farm Eames James, farmer Parsons John, dairyman

Bowerman David John, fanner, New- Goodland Ann (Mrs.), machinist, Rapps Partridge Joseph, yeoman, Ashford frm

house farm Goodland John, farmer, Burleaze Slade William, farmer, llford

Bowerman Frederick, farmer Goodland Sampson, farmer Stanton George, agricultural machinist

Broomfield Abraham, Wyndham Arms GrabhamJosh.millr.(water),Ashford ml Trump Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer

Bryant Cornelius, baker Granger William, tailor Williams Benjamin, shopkeeper

KEINTON MANDEVILLE is a parish, 6 miles Combe Hill House is the property of Mr.i!. Chaffey and the

west-south-west from Castle Cary station on the Great residence of Waiter Harding esq. The Rev. John David.
Western railway, 4 east-north-east from Somerton and 9 Morrice M.A. vicar of Longbridge Deverill, Wilts, is lord of
north-east from Langport, in the Eastern division of the the manor. Francis Henry Dickinson esq. F.S.A., l.P; of
county, hundred of Catsash, Somerton petty sessional divi- Kingweston House, George Tuson esq. and Mrs. Chaffeyare
sion, union and county court district of Langport, rural landowners. The soil is clay, and the subsoil is blue lias,

deanery of Cary, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of particularly serviceable for paving and building purposes.
Bath and Wells. The river Brue or Brewe runs on the The chief crops are orchard produce, clover, beans and

north side of the village. The church of St. Mary, an edifice wheat. The acreage is 648; rateable value, £1,154; the
of very early date, was partly rebuilt in 1800, and consists population in 1881 was 537·
of chancel, nave of two bays, north aisle, south porch and a Sexton, Silas Bailey.
western tower containing 3 bells : the earliest remaining ·
portion is the chancel, which is probably Norman: to this PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

period the font also belongs :the stained east window, placed Jane Brooks, receiver. Letters arrive from Somerton 8.0.

in 1883, is a memorial to the Rev. Henry G. Livius, late at 7·45 a.m. ; dispatched at 5 p.m. week days only. The

rector: there are sittings for 265 persons. The register nearest telegraph office is at .Baltonsborough

dates from 1726, the earlier registers having been burnt. A School Board of 5 members was formed December 2oth,

The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £114, gross yearly B18r7o8ok;s,F.atPte.ndPaitnmceano,ffihcoern. clerk to the board; George
income £222, including 78 acres of glebe, with house, in the
gift of and held since 1880 by the Rev. Amos William Pitcher

T.A.K.C.L. and student of the University of Bonn. There Board School (mixed), erected in 1878, for 100 children;

are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels. Great quantities average attendance, 85 ; Charles William Hunt, master ;

of blue lias paving stone are obtained from the quarries here. Mrs. Hunt, mistress

Bailey Mrs. Corner house Brooks Jane (Mrs.), grocer,& post office Hyde John Harris, stone merchant &

Cannon Charles, sen Cannon Charles jun. cattle dealer quarry owner

Chalker John, Corner house Cannon Herbert, cattle dealer Knight WilliamDan,auctioneer,valuer&

Cox William Chalker & Son, stone merchants & farmer, Manor farm

Harding Waiter, Coombe Hill house quarry owners, High street Lukins Albert, farmer

Pitcher Rev. Amos William T.A.K.C.L. ChalkerJohn, stone merchant, Prospect Masters George. draper & carpentPr

Rectory place Matcham James, stone merchant

COMMERCIAL. Chalker Oliver, quarry owner & stone Perry Sophia (Mrs.), shopkeepel'

merchant, Castle street. See advert t Pitman & Batt, bakers

Bailey George, stone merchant Cox James, stone merchant Pitman Frank Pursey, grocer

Bailey Robert, stone merchant Culling Ebenezer Hugh, quarry owner, Pyke James, butcher

Barnes Frank, farmer Church street Scott Frank, veterinary surgeon

Brooks Benjamin, stone merchant, Dark John, tailor Squires Thomas, farmer

Combe Hill quarry Dyke John, Three Old Castles inn, & Udall George, Quarry inn, & farmer

Brooks Frederick. Chalker, quarry stone merchant Waiter George Penny, draper

owner Grant Jacob, carpenter Wilcox Henry, stone merchant

Brooks George, attendance officer Grant John (Mrs.), carpenter, wheel- Young John, quarry owner & blue lias

Brooks Henry Charles, stone merchant wright & boot dealer stone merchant, Keinton quarries

KELSTON is a parish and village, situated on the upper sittings for 130 persons. The register dates from 1538 and

road to Bristol, bounded on the south by the river Avon and is in unusually good preservation. The living is a rectory,

on the west by the Coombe rivulet, with a station on the average tithe rent-charge £210, net yearly value £296,
Bath extension of the Midland railway, 4 miles north-west including 48 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of
from Bath and 8 south-east from Bristol, in the Frome divi- Mrs. Inigo Jones, and held since 1858 by the Rev. Francis

sion of the county, hundred of Bath Forum, Weston petty John Poynton M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. There are
sessional division, union of Keynsham, county court district four charities as follows :-the Rev. Robert Kening in 1709
of Bath, rural deanery of Keynsham, archdeaconry of Bath, left £1 8s. 6d. yearly, for apprenticing poor boys; Arch-

and diocese of Bath and Wells, The church of St. Nicholas deacon Lawson Hudleston in 1743left £1 yearly, charged on
is an edifice of stone in the Early English style, rebuilt with his property in Gloucestershire, to be distributed to the poor

the exception of the tower in 186o, at the cost of the late in bread at Christmas; Mr. John Hudleston in 1835 left £5

Lieut.-Col. Inigo Jones; it consists of chancel, nave of three yearly, and the Rev. Charles Edward Harin,o-ton, late chan-
bays, south aisle, north porch and a Perpendicular western cellor and canon of Exeter Cathedral, in 188a left £8 yearly
tower with saddleback roof containing 4 bells: there are for the poor of the parish, to be distributed at the discretion
several fine stained windows, some of which contain ancient of the rector. In this parish are several ancient build-
glass: Sir John Harington kt. godson of Queen Elizabeth ings of an interesting character, and a fountain, erected in
and a translator of Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso," d. 2oth 1858, at the expense of the late Lieut.-Col. Inigo Jones~
November, 1612; Henry Harington M.D. a famous musician who also restored most of the cottages. Kelston Park,

and founder of the Harmonic Society, d. xsth January, the seat of Mrs. Inigo Jones, lady of the manor and sole

1816, and the Very Rev. Sir William Cockburn hart. dean landowner, is a picturesque residence on the slopes of the
of York, d. 1858, are all buried here; the church affords. Avon. The soil is clayey and sandy; subsoil, stone. The

256 KELSTON. SOMERSETSHIRE. [KELLY's

chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 1,095] nearest money order & telegraph office is at Twerton-on-

acres; rateable value, £2,821; the population in 1881 was Avon

185. Parochial School (mixed), erected in 1863 by the late Lient.-

Parish Clerk, Daniel Young. Col. Inigo Jones, for 36 children; average attendance, 24,
PosT OFFICE.-William Charles Flower, postmaster. Letters & endowed with £3 a year from the manor of Kelston;

from Bath at 8.10 a.m. & 2.55 p.m.; dispatched at 9.40 Miss Amy Watson, mistress

a.m. & 4·45 p.m. week days ; Sundays at 9.40 a.m. The Railway Station, Robert Manners, station master

Jones Mrs. Inigo, Kelston park Bath & Bristol Steam Laundry Co. 1Marsh Thomas, grocer
Miller Mrs. Kelston lodge (Francis William Tripe, manager) Steger James William, market gardener
Newman Miss
Poynton Rev.Francis John :M.A. Rectory Crocker ArthurStuart,farmer,Millfarm Vowles George, farmer

COMMERCIAL. IFlowerWm.Chas.blacksmth.&post office Vowles Richard, farmer, Manor house
Brimble William, market gardener
Gunning Arthr.Ernest,frmr.Manor frm Wilton Ann (Mrs.), Crown P.H
King Samuel, carpenter

XEN (OR KENN) is a village and parish, situated on a low the family of the great and good Bishop Ken, "who,though

plain, 2 miles south from Clevedon terminal station of a not a native of the diocese which he afterwards adorned, was
branch of the Great Western railway, 2 north from Yatton descendant of a very ancient Somersetshire family,seated at
and 13 west-south-west from Bristol, in the Northern division Ken Court, from the reign of Edward II. until the 17th

of the county, Long Ashton petty sessional division, Bed- century, when that estate passed, by the marriage of Eliza-
minster union, Bristol county court district, Winterstoke beth, second daughter and co-heiress of Christopher Ken, to
hundred, rural deanery of Portishead, archdeaconry of Bath John, first Baron Paulett." Margaret, eldest daughter and

and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church (dedication un- co-heiress of Christopher Ken, married William Guise esq.
known) is a small building of stone in the Early English of Elmore, at Ken church, January 2, 1592. Mrs. Aunie
style, rebuilt (except the tower) in x86x, at a cost of £x,ooo, de Merle, of 42 Ennismore gardens, London s w, is lady of
and consists of chancel, nave, vestry, south aisle, south the manor. John Griffin esq. and Charles Lund Fry Edwards
porch and a western tower containing one bell: in the esq. M. A., J.P. of The Grove, Wringtou, are the principal
church is a monument to Christopher Ken, of Ken Court, in landowners. The soil is loamy, chiefly grass ; subsoil, clay
this parish, ob. 1593, and others of ancient date: the date and bog. The chief crops are wheat, beans and bay. The
.of the communion cup and of the. cover is 1545: there are area is 821 acres; rateable value, £2,617; the population in

sittings for 150 persons. The register dates from the year 1881 was 289.
1544. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge Sexton, John James.
£213, net yearly value £x68, including9 acres of glebe,with Letters lrom Yatton R.S.O. arrive 9.30 a.m. Clevedon is
house, in the gift of the vicar of Yatton, and held since 1876 the nearest money order & telegraph office
by the Rev. Robert Trevor Still B. A. Trinity College, Dublin. WALL LETTER Box cleared 4.30 p.m. week days only
Here is a Congregational chapel, built in 1861-62. The National School (mixed), erected in 1842, for 50 children;
parish possesses a lasting interest, from its connection with Miss Wilcox, mistress

Griffin John, Portbury house 1Carey Samuel Joseph, beer retailer Rawlins Henry, market gardener

Still Rev. Robert Trevor B. A. Vicarage Chapple Jesse, market gardener Sprod Edward, tallow chandler & farmr

Dyer George, shopkeeper Staples Charles, farmer,Stonehouse frm

COMMERCIAL. Dyer Samuel, farmer, Ken Court farm Staples William, farmer, Moorside

Amesbury Henry, blacksmith HardwickFrancisTiley, assist. overseer Stuckey Joseph, farmer

Avery William, fanner, Ken Pier farm Hardwick Thomas, farmer Wall Henry, farmer

Baker Sarah Ann, Harriet & Lucy James John, carpenter Withy Lucinda (Mrs.), farmer

(Misses), farmers, Yew Tree farm Parsley John, market gardener

XEWSTOKE is a parish situated on the Bristol channel, souls of Robert de Courtenay,the founder's father,his mother

2 miles north-east from Weston-super-Mare, in the Wells and their ancestors, has led to the conclusion that this
division o[ the county, Winterstoke hundred, Axbridge petty monastery was built as an expiation for the murder of St.
sessional division and union, Weston-super-Mare county Thomas, from one of whose murderers, William de Tracy,

court district, Locking district of the rural deanery of Ax- the founder was descended ; his progenitor, Sir Gervase de
• bridge, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. Courtenay, having married the heiress of that family: two

The church of St. Paul is a building of stone in the Early others of the four homicides, Reginald Fitzurse, of Williton,
English and Perpendicular style!!, with some Norman remains, and Richard Brito, of Sampford Brett, belonged to this
and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a western count.y: on either side of the approach to the priory are
tower with pierced trefoiled parapet, small pinnacles, and an stone piers, supporting shields removed from the north aisle
octagonal spired turret at the south-east angle; it contains 5 of the priory chnrch,one of which exhibits" the five wounds,"
bells : there is an ancient stone pulpit and a curious old and the other a chevron between 3 bugle horns stringed ;
stone font : the upper and lower doors of the rood loft also the entrance gateway is by a large segmental headed arch,
remain ; there was formerly a reliquary in the north wall of boldly moulded and having a good scrolled weather mould-
the chancel, which on examination was found to contain a ing : immediately beyond is the west front of the church,
wooden vessel or cup, containing remains of human blood, which anciently consisted of choir, nave of three bays, a
conjectured to be that of Thomas-a-Becket (see Dean central tower and a north aisle of three bays, extending to
Stanley's "Memorials of Canterbury," which gives a full the east side of the tower, to which it originally opened by a
account of it); in front of the stone containing this reliquary fine arch; the west front is an admirable composition in the
was a small shafted arch inclosing a demi-female figure, Late Perpendicular style, and the gable of the nave is
originally holding some object in its upraised hands ; the flanked by octagonal turrets, with a pierced embattled
relic is now in the museum at Taunton, and it has been parapet, continued along the nave; the great west window,

suggested that it was removed to Kewstoke from Wood- now built up, had canopied niches containing figures on
spring priory, on the surrender of that house : there are either side and above it, and these still remain, though
sittings for 200 persons. An admirable view of the church much mutilated: the tower, of somewhat earlier date, is of
and low-lying meadows around it, and of the Bristol Channel, two stages, with large traceried windows in the belfry story
may be obtained from the "Hermit's Steps," on the rocky and on the south side is a stair turret with pyramidal cap-
heights to the south-west. The register dates from the year ping; the lower stage retains fan-traceried vaulting of rich

1667. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge character; the parapet is panelled in quatrefoils, and bases
£265, net yearly value £320, including 28 acres of glebe, of pinnacles remain, of which there were once eight; at the
with house, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor,and held since south-east angle of the tower is a fragment of the destroyed
x883 by the Rev. Sidney George Gillum M.A. of St. Peter's choir, beneath which is a crypt; and on the north and south
College, Cambridge. The church of St. Jude, chapel of ease sides are structures with lean-to roof, concealed on the south
to Kewstoke, and situated at Milton, is a building of stone, side by a Perpendicular parapet, and affording space for a
erected in 1886, in the Early English style, and consists of quasi-transept or chapel; on the north side of the tower the
chancel, nave, north porch and a low central tower contain- work was left incomplete, and the north aisle which adjoined
ing 3 bells : there are x8o sittings : the Rev. James Henry it has been partially destroyed, but much of its ancient
Adeane Law M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, is curate character may still be made out: the nave is now converted
in charge. There are chapels for the Plymouth Brethren into a farm house, the entrance to which is by the south
bere and at Milton, and a Wesleyan chapel at Milton. In doorway,which formerly led into the 14th century cloisters,
the parish are the remains of Woodspring Priory, founded some portion of the walls of which remains, exhibiting on
in 1210 by William de Courtenay, for canons of the Angus- the east side two blocked arches and a doorway of the
tinian order, translated here from Dodelyng or Dodelynch, Decorated period, with remams of very fine carved work: of
and dedicated to the Holy Trinity, St. Mary the Virgin and the domestic buildings but little is now standing: to the
St. 'fhomas the Martyr. This dedication, and the stated south-east of the cloister garth is a large and well-propor-
Qbjects of the foundation, viz. the establishment here of tioned structure 45 by 19 feet, generally regarded as the
ecclesiastics who should maintain constant prayers for the refectory, but possibly the Priory hall ; it retains some good

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-,:,Sth century windows, with transoms and cinquefoiled ogre road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, are the principal landowners.

beads, and the ruins of a stair turret on the south side, and The soil is loam ; subsoil, mixed. The land is chiefly pasture

has an excellent timbered roof : north of the church is a with some market gardens. The area is 2,256 acres ; rate-

fine barn, with a bold south transept with angle buttresses, able value, £7,371 ; the population in x88x was 840.

one of which exhibits a shield of arms, much mutilated; at MILTON, a mile south, and No&TON-BEAUCHAHP, half a

the east end of the barn is a pond fed by a perpetual spring, mile east, are hamlets.

which may perhaps have given this place its name. At the Parish Clerk and Sexton, George Beakes.

Dissolution there were seven canons, and revenues estimated Letters delivered by foot post from Weston-super-Mare at

at [,87. The road from Kewstoke to Weston-super-Mare, 8.30 a.m. & 5.30 p.m. Weston is the nearest money

through the wood, is one of the most delightful that can be order office

nnagmed, and the occasional breaks in the foliage afford WALL LWl'TER Box, cleared at 5.30 p.m. week days only;

pleasant glimpses of the Bristol channel; the view of the & at Milton, cleared week days, 7.20 p.m.; sundaya

surrounding country from Worlebnry Hill is also very exten- 10.35 a.m

sive. Cecil Hugh Smyth-Pigott esq. .J.P. of Brockley Court, National School (mixed), erected in 1875, for xoo children;

who is lord of the manor, and Stiverd Vores esq. of x Albany average attendance, 9o; Miss Blackall, mistress

KewF.Jtoke. Keedwell John, farmer, Sand Law Rev. James Henry Adeane li.A.

Gillum Rev.SidneyGeorge M. A. Vicarage Lockyer Thomas, farmer, Sand [curate of St. Jude]
Petheram Jane (Mrs.), laundress Lawrence Edward, Sandusky
COMMERCIAL, Pouting Richard, farmer
COMMERCIAL.
Bawden Elizabeth (Mrs.), laundress Stabbins George, market gardener
Alexander John, market gardener
Beard John, farmer, Culm Stabbius Henry (Mrs.), farmer Bishop George, market gardener
Bragg William Henry, farmer
Bown James, farmer, Norton Stamp John Henry, farmer Fry Frank, farmer
Harris Charles, farmer
Court James, farmer Thomas Annie (Mrs.), laundress Harris George, watch maker

Day Daniel \Vakely, farmer Tntt George, farmer1 Norton
Edwards George, farmer, Culm Urch Albert, New inn

Farer Henry, market gardener Weakley Ann (Mrs.), laundress

Fry Robert, farmer Weakley John, wheelwright Martin Edward, grocer &c

Gay Chas. Sydney, shopkeep. & carpent Webber William, blacksmith May William, carpenter

Gill John, farmer, Sand Winter James, market gardener Nobbs Thomas William, grocer &c ,

Hard wick Edward,farmer & landowner, Milton. Pet.heran Richard, farmer
Newtons
Pittman Henry, wheelwright

Harris \Villiam, farmer, Priory farm, Bisdee William, The Grove Sprake George, Windsor Castle inn

Woodspring James Misses, Hill cottage Tucker Thomas, butcher

KEYNSHAM is a parish, village, head of a union and God, the Blessed Virgin and St. Peler and St. Paul : it was

petty sessional division, formerly a market town, situated one of the greater religious houses, and its yearly revenue

on the southern bank of the river Avon at its confluence at the Dissolution was valued at £419 145. 3d. : a consider-

with the Chew, and on the borders of Gloucestershire, with able portion of the remains were used in building the tower

a station on the Bristol and Radstock branch of the Great of the parish church and for repairs, but the almonry and

Western railway, and on the road between Bath and Bristol, barn still exist. The principal landowners are Harford

7 miles north-west from the former city, 5 south-east from Lyne esq. D.L, J.P. who is lord of the manor, Thomas Cour-

the latter and 114 miles from London. The parish is in the tenay Theydon Warner esq. of Highams, Woodford, Essex

Northern division of the county, hundred of Keynsham, and Joseph Cooke Hurle esq. J.P. of Brislington. The soil

county court district of Bristol, Keynsham district of the is clay ; subsoil, blue lias. The chief crops are wheat,

rural deanery of Chew, archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of barley, oats and roots. The acreage is 4,171 ; rateable value,

Bath and Wells. The parish church of St. John the Baptist [,24,302 ; the population m 1881 was 2,482, including 117

is a spacious building of stone, in the Early English Deeor- officers and inmates of the workhouse.

ated and Perpendicular styles, and was appropriated to the PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office

abbey as early as 1292 : it consists of chancel, nave of eight (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. Somer-

bays, aisles, south porch and a western tower, with pin- set added).-Miss RaC'hel Ann Spiller, sub-postmistress.

nacles, containing a clock and 8 bells ; the clock was Letters arrive from Bristol at 6.50 a. m. & 1.50 & '5·20

erected in 1721 and restored in 1875; there is a sanctus p.m. Box closes at 12.20, 4.30 & 8.20 p.m. ; sundays,

bell : the east window and three others are stained : in the 8.20 p.m. only. Letters are delivered to callers on son-

chancel is a double piscina and several monuments of the days from 8 to :ro a. m

Bridges family, ancestors of the Dukes of Buckingham and WALL LETTER Box, Gas works, cleared at 4 & 7.30 p.m

Chandos, dating from 1587: the chancel is Early English, COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR KEYNSHAM PETTY SESSIONAL

the north aisle Perpendicular and the south aisle Decorated : DIVISION.

the east end of the south aisle forms a chapel, now used as Clayfield-Ireland James Clayfield esq. M.A. Brislington hall

organ chamber and vestry, and is separated by a handsome Bristol, chairman

Perpendicular carved screen: there is also a screen, erected Temple Earl, Newton park, Bath

temp. Charles I. interesting as being one of the latest exist- Allen Lieut.-CoL Ralph Edward, Hampton manor, nr. Bath

ing examples of the Stuart period : the lofty tower is of Baker Wm. Procter esq. Bramwell house,Brislington,Bristol

mixed Perpendicular and Debased work; the original tower, Coles William Gale esq. Cleeve wood, Down end, Fish-

which stood over the present vestry, was thrown down and ponds R.S.O

the nave and north aisle damaged by a terrific thunderstorm, Cooke-Hurle Joseph, jun. esq. Southfield house, Brislington,

January 13th, 1632 : the restoration of the church was com- .Bristol

pleted in 1863, and in 1883 the organ was restored at a cost of Daubeny Lansdowne esq. Shockerwick house, near Bath

[.250: there are 1,000 sittinQ"s, 512 of which are free. The Lean George Stuckley esq. Lyde house, Bath

register dates from 1605. The living is a rectory, average Lyne Harford esq. The Manor house, Keynsham R.S.O

tithe rent-charge, {,245. net yearly value {,274, including 8 :Metcalfe His Honor Judge William James M.A., Q.C. Wood-

acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of trustees, and ville house, Whiteladies road, Bristol

held since 1870 by the Rev. Joseph Henry Gray M•.&.. of Palmer-Samborne Samborne Stukely esq.Timsburyho. Bath

Trinity College, Dublin, and surrogate. .A fair is held here t!krine Henry Mills esq. M.A. Warleigh manor, Bath

on the first Wednesday after August xsth. There are Bap- Clerk to the Magistrates, Frederick Edward Whittuck

tist, Primitive :Methodist, United Methodist and Reformed Petty Sessions are held at the County Police Station at n

Methodist chapels. The Cemetery, 2~ acres in extent, was a.m. any friday in each month

formed in 1867 at a cost of about [,2,200, and has two mor- The following places are included in the Division :-Brisling-

tuary chapels ; it is under the control of a Burial Board of ton, Burnett, Compton Dando, Keynsham, Marksbury,

nine members. On the road to Bristol are almshouses, Norton Malreward, Priston, Publow, Queen Charlton,

founded by Sir Thomas Brydges, for six poor widows, each Saltford, St. Thomas in Pensford, Stanton Drew, Stanton

of whom receives £4 yearly from the Brydges estate and £7 Prior, Whitchurch
each from Miss Eastwick's legacy; another charity of £67 PUBLIC EsTABLISHMENTS:-

y.early was left by the late Miss Eastwick ; the feoffees ha\"e Cemetery, John Nelson Fear, clerk to the burial board

about £ x6o a year for the middle poor; there are also alms- County Police Station, Daniel Drewett, sergeant, & one

houses for fonr aged married couples, founded in 1885 m constable

memory of Alfred Milward. The abbey of Kt>ynsham, Public Hall, to seat 500, John Rogers Lloyd, sec

which stood south-eastward of the present parish church, Prince Albert's Somersetshire Light lnfantry,1st Volunteer

was founded, according to Dugdale, between the years u67 Battalion (C Co.) ; commandant, vacant; Rev. J. H.

and 1172, by Wllliam, Earl of Gloucester, for Black Canons Gray M.A. hnn. chaplain; Sergeant Thomas Brown, drill

regular of St. Austin, and was dedicated to the honour nf instructor·

s. G. "{x)_. n. 1.,..

2D8 KEYNSHAM. SOMERSETSHIRE. [KELLY'S

KEYNSHAM UNION. Sprye, chaplain ; Charles Harrison, medical officer ;

Board day, tnesday at n a.m. at the Union Board Room. Thomas Hignell, master; Mrs. Elizabeth Hignell, matron;

The Union comprises the following places-viz. : Bitton Miss Snsannah Webb, schoolmistress ·

(Gloncester),Brislington,Bnrnett,ComptonDando,Corston, RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY.

Hanham (Gloucester), Kelston, Keynsham, Mangotsfield Meets the 3rd tnesday in the month at the Board room~

(Gloucester), Marksbnry, Northstoke, NewtonSt.Loe,Old- Union, at II a.m.

land (Gloncester),Priston,Qneen Charlton, Saltford, Siston Clerk, Samuel Frederick Andrews, Keynsham

(Gloucester), Stanton Prior & Whitchnrch or Felton: the Treasurer, John Chetwood-Aiken, Stuckey's Bank, Bristol

population of the Union in I88I was 25,648; rateable Medical Officer of Health, John Cookesley Heaven L.R.C.P.

value, £I36,2I8 Lond. 2 Queen square, Bristol

Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Samuel Inspectors of Nuisances, J. J. 0\lis, Saltford (Somersetshire

Frederick Andrews, Keynsham part); J. D. Bolt, Downend (Gloucestershire part)

Treasurer, John Chetwood-Aiken, Stuckey's Bank, Bristol SCHOOL ATTENDANCE COMMITTEE.

Relieving Officers, No. I district, James Coates, Keynsham; Meets the 3rd tuesday in the month at the .Board room,

No. 2 district, J. B. Barton, Kingswood Hill; No. 3 dis- Union, at 10 a.m.

trict, J. Greenway, Staple park, Mangotsfield Clerk, Samuel Frederick Andrews, Keynsbam

Vaccination Officer, C. J. Tyler, Kingswood Attendance Officers, J. E. Morgan, Oldland (Gloucestershire

Medical Officers No. I district, Charles Harrison, Tregeare part), & J. J. Ollis, Salford (Somersetshire part)

house, Keynsham; No. 2 & 3 districts, George Gilmore Inquiry Officers, The Relieving Officers

Drake Willett, Millward house, Keynsham ; No. 4 dis- PUBLIC OFFICERS :-

trict, Henry Grace L.R.C.P.Lond. Kingswood; No. 5 dis- Assistant Overseer, Collector of Poor Rates & Clerk to the

tiict, Henry Skelton M.R.C.P.Edin. Downend Burial Board, John Nelson Fear, Keynsham

Public Vaccinator, Henry Grace L.R.C.P.LOnd. Kingswood Certifying Factory Surgeon, Charles Harrison

Superintendent Registrar, Samuel Frederick Andrews, Clerk to the Commissioner of Taxes for Keynsham Union,

Keynsham; deputy, John Nelson George Frederick Fox ,

Registrars of Births & Deaths, Bitton sub-district, Joseph Road Surveyor, John Herbert, Laura villa

B. Barton, Kingswood Hill; deputy, Edward Hathway, ScHOOLS:-

Kingswood; Keynsbam sub-district, James Coates, Keyn- Parochial (mixed & infants), built, with residence for

sham ; deputy, Charles Harrison, Tregeare ho. Keynsham ; master, in I858, & enlarged in 1873 to hold 353 children;

Newton sub-district, Char!es Glover, Newton St. Loe; average attendance, I83; Geo. Edward Wheeler, master;

deputy, George Mercer, Newton St. Loe; Oldland sub· Mrs. Mary Ann Harvey, infants' mistress

district, James Y. Young, Kingswood Hill; deputy, Chewton Keynsham (mixed), entirely supported by Thomas
Conrtenay Warner esq. for so children; average attend-
Alfred Ladd, Kingswood

Registrars of Marriages, James Coates, Keynsham; deputy, ance, 3I ; Miss Emily Togwell, mistress ..,;

Charles Harrison, Keynsham; Alfred Ladd, Kingswood British (mixed), established in I87I for 1:50 children; aver-

Hill; deputy, William D. Stran~e, Kingswood Hill age attendance, 79; James Usher, master

The Workhouse is situated south of the village, near Railway Station, Thomas William Bohn, station master

Chewton Keynsham; it was built in I838 at a cost of CARRIERS TO BRlSTOL.-James Keates, daily; Ambrose

£5,I7o& will hold 257 inmates; Rev.TheodoredeLandulph Ford, daily

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Lodge John, Meridian house Andrews James, builder, Bath road

Andrews Samuel :Frederick, Priory road Long Mrs. James, The Ferns Andrews Sl. Fdk. solicitor, clerk to the

Bain Donald, Avon house Long Mrs. Joseph, Longton house guardians, supt.registrar, clerk to the

Baker Miss Mann Rev. Walt. [Baptist], Elmhurst rural sanitary authority & to the sch.

Bath Ernest James Marklew Edward, 2 Abbey park attendance & assessment committees

Beauchamp Frederick, Priory road Martin Henry, Aubrey house Barnes Alfred, baker & grocer

Bray Frederick Charles Mitchell Josepb, Hill view Barren & Bath, veterinary surgeons

Briggs William, Abbey park Morris James, Abbey park Bath Ernest James M.R.c.v.s.veterinary

Brown John, Rush villa Morris Mts. 5 Priory road surgeon, see Barrell & Bath

Bull Mrs. Avon villa Moxley Edwin, Abbey park Belsten John, undertaker

Bush Philip, Abbey mead Nicholls William Thos. 2 Priory road Belsten William John, wheelwright,

Bush Mrs. The Old Manor house Nightingale Mrs. 6 Priory road carpenter & undertaker

Butler Henry, x Abbey park Oxford Thomas Benjafield Alfd.farmer,Dapps Hill farm

Cant Robert Parfitt George, 6 The Avenue Bishop .Alfred, Ship P.H

Carter John, Hope cottage Parnell Geo. O'Connor, Flanders h~;~use Bowden Thomas Lemon, chemist

Cary Mrs. Ellsbridge Parsons Simpson, Aubrey house Bromwich l''rederick, lime burner, see

Chard Henry, Leigh house Paxton Thomas, Freeland house Sheppard & Bromwich

Clark Mrs. Stockwood house Pillinger Fingal, Anber house Brownsey Robert, butcher

Clifton John Henry, Upland house Pinfield Samuel, Lulworth house Butson, George, saddler

Coates James Henry Scears Charles, Sunnyside Cantle James, basket maker

Condon James, Western villa Sheppard Alfred, Vyvian villa Cantle James Harrill, beer retailer

Cooper Henry, Hill head Sheppard George, Cromwell house Cantle John, market gardener

Cox James Sheppard Henry, Virginia villa Cantle William, shopkeeper

Cox William, Devon house Sheppard Mrs. Antwerp house Carpenter Charles, pork butcher

Cremore Mrs. 5 The Avenue Smith Herbert, Prospect house Carter Jn. Lee, carpenter &undertaker

Crisp Mrs. Chandos house Smith Sherwood, Pines Carter Walter, draper & grocer

Cross Miss, .Abbey park Smith William, 7 Priory road Cemetery (John Nelson Fear, clerk to

Davies Alfred Thomas Snell Algernon, Priory road the burial board)

Duley Edmund, 2 Avenue Speck Mrs. Prospect villa Chappell Edwin, grocer & coal mer-

Edwards Thos. Millwood,Lichfield lodge Stokes Charles, Myrtle house chant; agent toW. & A. Gilbey,wine

Exon Thomas, Bath street Strudwick John, Lynton villa & spirit merchants ; Railway station

Fairclongb John, 4 Priory road Swaisland Mrs. 4 The .Avenue Chew Mills Emery Co. (Easton & Gran-

Fedden Reginald, Ivy lodge Tapp Mrs ger, proprietors)

Fedden WiWiam, The Grange Thomas Robert Albt. Ammonite villa Coates James, registrar of births &

Ficklin Robert, 2 Lansdown villas Tipney Joseph deaths for Keynsham sub-dist. &

Ford Mrs. Gloucester villa Usher James, Vernon villa registrar of marriages for the Somer-

Foster George, 3 Priory road Voysey Isaac, Hampton villa setshire part of Keynsham union &

Fox George Frederick, Beaufort villa Warner John, Fern bank relieving officer for No. I district

Gibbons Henry, Fir view Waters Mrs. 3 The Avenue Coles Charles Henry, shopkeeper

Gray Rev. Joseph Henry M.A. Rectory Watts John Cooke Michael, watch maker

Grigg Mrs. The Park Wenman Edward George, 8 Priory rd Coombs George, Talbot P.H

Harrison Charles, Tregeare house Whittaker Mrs. Dnrley park Cooper Harry, painter

Harvey William, Alma villa Whittuck Frederick E Coulthard & Harding, dye wood works,

Hatheren J ames, Longbridge house Willett Geo.Gilmore Drake,Millward ho Chewton Keynsham

Herbert John, Laura villa Wilham Gabriel, The Elms Cox Frederick, coal merchant, Station,

Hill Mrs. Bristol road Wood Alfred, The Lodge & farmer, Beech farm

Holland John, Eppleworth Wood Charles H. Rock Hill house Cox Noah, farmer

Homer William, Merrywood Wood Edward, Bath road Dando Edward, blacksmith

Hudden Miss Wood Samuel, Ashington house Down Edward, butcher

Huddleston Robert, I The Avenue COMMERCIAL. Down John Henry, ironmonger & gro-
Johnson Mrs. Buckingham lodge cer,oils & brushes of every description

Jones Miss, Bath hill Andrews John & Co. grocers Dyer Esther (Mrs.), shopkeeper

DIRECTORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. KILMERSDON. 259

Fear Elizabeth (Miss), ladies' school Johnson Percy Reginald, beer retailer Russell Granby, wine & spirit merchant

Fear John Nelson, poor rate collector, J ones Franci~, boot maker Sheppard & Bromwich, lime burners

clerk to the burial board, assistant Keates James, earrier & fly proprietor Sheppard Aaron, boot maker

overseer & deputy registrar Keynsham Gas Works (John Nelson Sheppard Henry, builder

Fedden William, solicitor, Ivy lodge Fear, sec) Sheppard Louisa (Miss), milliner

Fisher George, butcher Keynsham Public Hall Company (John Shipp Charles, beer retailer

Ford Ambrose, carrier Rogers Lloyd, secretary) Short Richard, farmer, Millwood lane

Ford Edwin, shopkeeper King George Francis, farmer, Chewton Sloman Al'bert, carpenter & rent & debt

Fox George Frederick, solicitor, & Keynsham collector & <:ertified bailiff under the

clerk to the commissioners of taxes Kohler Frederick, Fox & Hounds P.H Law of Distress Amendment Act

for Keynsham union Lancaster Edward, dairyman Sloman Alfred, central loan office

Fry David, shopkeeper Lodge John, surgeon, Meridian house Smart Simon, grocer

Gerrish John, butcher Loxton Henry John, draper Smith Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer

Gifford Jas. farmer,Chewton Keynsham May Alfred, dairyman Spiller Rachel A. (Miss), stationer, &

Gifford John, farmer, Conygre farm Moore John, baker post office

Godfrey J onas, marine store dealer Morgan Rosanna (Mrs.), shopkeeper Stokes Charles, machine proprietor

Gould Thomas & Co. Keynsham dye Morris James, boot manufacturer Stokes Charles Corner, provision dealer

wood works Nipper John, farmer, Stockwood Strange Isaac, butcher

Granger Henry, see Chew Mills Emery O'Brien Patrick, farmer, Hicksgate Button Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Co. (Easton & Granger, proprietors) Ollis William Charles, shopkeeper Sweet Job, chimney sweeper

Greenland Edward, news agent Owers Ellen (Mrs.), draper Taylor Joseph Beaman, farmer

Greenland Samuel, shopkeeper Owers John Banfield, estate agent Taylor Thomas, tailor

Harding John Boulter, dairyman Paget Fras.farmer,Chewton Keynsham TylerC.J. vaccination officer,Kingswood

Harford & Bristol Brass Co. (Alfred Parker Frances (Miss), dress maker Tyler William, brush manufacturer

Thomas Davies, m!lnager) Parker Henry, tea dealer Vale Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Harris William, Crown P.H Padden Arthnr Jennings, pork butcher Veale Oliver, boot maker

Harrison Charles, surgeon, & certifying Pearce William, baker Veale William, butcher

factory surgeon & medical officer to Phelps Waiter Richard, saddler Vowles Thomas, farmer, Stockwood\

the workhouse & No. r district, Pillinger Fredk. portmanteau maker Ward Henry, market gardener

Keynsham union & deputy registrar Pocock John, boot maker Whatley Albert, beer retailer

of births & deaths, Tregeare house Prince Albert's Somersetshire Light In- Whittuck Frederick Ed ward,solicitor &

Harvey Charles, painter fantry, 1st Volunteer Battalion (C clerk to the magistrates,Keynsham ho ,

Harvey Edward, builder Co.) (commandant vacant; Rev. J. Wiggins Edward, painter

Harvey Hy. house decorator,Danel! lane H. Gray M.A. hon. chaplain ; Sergt. Willett George Gilmore Drake,surgeon,

Harvey Joseph Green, painter Thomas Brown, drill instructor) & medical officer for Nos. 2 & 3 dis- -

Heal Charles, ironmonger Rawls Elizh. (Mrs.), refreshment room trict, Keynsham union, Millward ho

Herbert Jn. road surveyor, Laura villa Read Benj. farmer, Chewton Keynsham Williams Robert, Royal Oak P.H

House Ellen (Mrs.), beer retailer Reed William, jobbing gardener Wise James, boot maker

Hudson William, tailor Ricketts John Henry, carpenter Wood Alfred, grazier & landowner

Janes Thomas, beer retailer Rose Charles, boot maker Wood Chas.Harris,grazier & landowner-

Jarrett James, photographer Ruddle William, haulier & beer retailer

XILMERSDON is a very extensive parish and head of tiers, given by an ancestor of the proprietor to George IV.

a petty sessional division, embracing, besides the village of for the Brighton pavilion, but never erected there, and now

its own name, the hamlets of COI.EFORD, CHARLTON or restored by Lord Hylton. Lord Hylton is lord of the manor

CHARLETON, KILMERSDONCOlllllON, LUCKINGTON,NEWBERRY, and principal landowner, and impropriator of the great

HIGHBURY and LIPYEATE : Kilmersdon is 12~ miles south- tithes. There is every variety of soil, from stone brash and

south-west from Bath by rail and 10 by road, and 16 south- loam to heavy clay; the subsoil is various, but coal abounds,

south-east from Bristol, and 2 south-east from Radstock and in some cases is found at great depth. The land is

railway stations, 7 north-west from Frome, in the :Frome in pasture for dairy purposes. The area of the parish is

division of the county, Kilmersdon hundred, Frome union 3,46o acres ; rateable value, £ IO,on ; the population in

and county conrt district, :Midsomer Norton district of the 188r was 2,323, of which 1,586 are in Coleford.

rural deanery of Merston, archdeaconry of Wells and CHARLTON is a hamlet, half a mile west, and has a Primi-

diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of SS. Peter and tive Methodist chapel. Charlton House, a. noble mansion

Paul is a fine building .of stone, supposed to have been of stone, occupying a prominent position, is now the resi~­

erected in the rsth century, consisting of chancel, nave of dence of E. Endymion Porter esq. M.A., J.P.

five bays, aisle and a lofty embattled western tower in the Parish Clerk, Charles Gane.

Perpendicular style, with pinnacles, and containing a clock PosT OFFICE, KilmersdonVillage.-William J amesWoolford',..

and 6 fine-toned bells: in 1879 the chancel was restored postmaster. Box closes at 7 p.m. Letters arrive from

and an organ chamber built on the south side by Lord .Bath at 7.30 a.m. & 7 p.m. ; no delivery on sunday.
Hylton, and in 1881 a handsome wro~ht iron screen was Nearest money order & telegraph office is at Radstock.

erected ; the east window was filled with stained glass in Postal orders are issued here, but not paid

1879 as a memorial to the late Lord Hylton, who died June WALL LETTER Box at Charlton, cleared at 6.40 p.m. week

r, 1876; a stained window has also been erected in the days only

north aisle, to the memory of the late Mrs. Box, by her COUNTr MAGISTRATES FOR KILMERSDON PETTY SESSIONAL

son : there are sittings for about 300 persons. The register DIVISION.

dates from the year 1653. The living is a vicarage, tithe Hylton Lord D.L. Ammerdown park, Kilmersdon, Bath,

rent-charge £244, net yearly value £214, with residence, in chairman

the gift of Lord Hylton, and held since 1864 by the Rev. Jolliffe Hon. Hylton George Hylton-, Ammerdown park,

Henry George John Veitch B.A. of Balliol College, Oxford. Kilmersdon, Bath

Part of this parish was formed into the ecclesiastical parish Broderip Edmund Greenhill esq. Cossington Manor house~

of Coleford, April 4, 1843. Here are Wesleyan and Primi- Bridgwater

tive Methodist chapels. In r875, to the north-west of Butler Saml. Evan esq. H.A. Caisson house, Combe Hay,Bath

the church, and close to the boundary of the parish, a shaft Daubeny William Arthur esq. M.A. The Island house1
was sunk for coal, and is worked by the Kilmersdon Colliery Midsomer Norton, Bath

Company. Ammerdown, the seat of the Right Hon. Lord Homer John Francis Fortescue esq. M.A., D.L, Mells Park,

Hylton D.L., J.P. situated in a park4milesin circumference, Frome

surrounded by a wall 8 feet in height, is a modern building Knatchbnll Captain Wyndham, Babington house, Bath

in the Italian style, from a design by the late James Wyatt, Porter Edward Endymion esq. M.A. Charlton house,

and commands extensive views of the surrounding country ; Kilmersdon, Bath

in the park, on a site Boo feet above the sea level, stands a Shore William Henry esq. B.A. Whatley house, Frome

a column, xso feet high, rising from a platform relieved Strachey William esq. Rock house, Elm, Frome

with casts from antique statues and containing an iron stair- Turner Col. Mansfield, Sidmouth house, Weston-super-Mare

case ; the erection of this structure, designed and completed Waiters George esq. Somerleaze, Frome

under the superintendence of Joseph Jopling esq. to the Clerk to the Magistrates, Geo. A. Daniel, Bath st. Frome

memory of Colonel Thomas Samuel Jolliffe, a former Special & petty sessions for the division & hundred of

possessor of this estate, is explained in inscriptions in Latin, Kilmersdon, comprising the parishes of Babington, Chil-

l<'rench and English, on the different compartments of the compton, Forscote, Hardington, Hemington, Holcombe,'

plinth ; the column is open to the public on Mondays and Kilmersdon, :Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Stratton-on-the-

Thursdays : in the grounds is a marble fountain of five Fosse & Writhlin,o1ion, are held at the pett sessional

S.G.&B 17*

260 KILMEHSDON• SOl\IERSETSHIRE.

court house once a month, on a monday at 12 o'clock for SCHOOLS:-

general business, & on every monday throughout the year In I719 the Rev. Thomas Shute gave a rent-charge of £2o

for criminal cases. Attendance is given by the clerks towards the support of a school for 40 children, to which

every monday morning from 12 till I, for the purpose of Mrs. Mary Freeman, in I76o, bequeathed £ wo, to be

taking informations, depositions &c placed at interest for repairs & the purchase of books ;
INSURANCE .AGENT.-Economic Life, W. W. Purnell
this benefaction was further increased by an annuity ot

County Constabulary, John Westcott, sergeant. There are £2o, given by the late Col. John·Twyford Jolliffe; John

a sergeant & constable stationed at Midsomer Norton & Evans, master

Radstock, & a police constable at each of the following National School (girls & infants), erected in I855, for 128

places-Coleford, Chilcompton, Stratton-on-the-Fosse & children ; average attendance, 99 ; Mrs. Mary Adams,

Writhlington mistress

HyltonLord D.L.,J.P.Ammerdown park; CandyJas.daiTy farmer,Ame'sLane frrn Pu1'11ell William Willcox, surveyor &

&Carlton,White's &Athenrenm clubs, CandyWalterTom,dairy frmr. Charlton inspector of roads to :Frome rural

London s w Caplen William, house steward &bailiff sanitary & highway authorities, Old

Jolliffe Hon.Hylton George Hylton- J.P. to Lord Hylton Vicarage

Amerdown park Coles Isaac, tailor Read Samuel, plumber & painter

Porter Edward Endymion M.A., J.P. Cox John, draper TreasureHenry,dairy frmr.Haydon frm

Charlton house; &; Conservative club, Cradock.Sidney,dary.frmr.Lowerfld.frm ~ Wavelle & Co. smiths

St. J ames' street, London s w Dunford Henry William &; Son, travel- West James, dairy farmer, Manor farm

Veitch Rev. Hy.Geo.John B.A. Vicarage ling drapers, Charlton Woolford William, boot & shoe maker,

Holbrook J n.frmr. Green's frm. Charlton & post office

COMMERCIAL. Horler Elizh. (Mrs.), beer ret.Charlton Writhlington Collieries Co.(Kilmersdon

.Hrice Louisa (Miss), grocer Lusty Samuel, Gauntlett's Arms P.H Pit) (A. Chivers, sec. ; J. Coulthard

Candy Albert Tom, dairy farmer, Orledge Henry, miller(water) &farmer, Walton, manager; John Batey, con-

Walton farm Waterside mill suiting enginr. )offices atWrithlington

Candy Alfred, dairy farmer, Hackmead Plaister Joseph, farmer, Orange & Wyatt William, shopkeeper, Charlton

Candy Henry D. farmer, Tyning farm Greenhill farms

KILMINGTON is a pleasantly situated parish adjoining Crown, but in the time of Edward I. it was granted to the

the county of Wilts, about 4 miles south-east from Witham family of Le Port; thence it passed to the family of Hartgill,
Friary station on the Great Western railway and 6 east from two of whom, in the reign of Queen Mary, were assassinated
Bruton, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred Gf by Charles, 7th baron Stourton, who was hanged for this
Norton :Ferris, ·wincanton petty sessional division, union of crime with a halter of silk, at Salisbury, March I6, 1557;
Mere, Frome county court district, Bruton district of the it is now in the possession.of Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare hart.
rural deanery and archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of M.A., D.L., J.P. of Stourhead, Wilts. The principal land-
Bath and Wells. The Wiley stream has its source in this owners are Sir H. A. Hoare hart. Samuel Jarvis esq. and
parish. The church of St. Mary is a plain building of stone, Henry Hobhouse esq. M.P., J.P. of Hadspen House, Pitcombe.
.consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle and an embattled The soil is sandy loam, subsoil clay. Chief crops are oats,

>western tower, with pinnacles, containing 2 bells; the chancel barley and some land in pasturage. The area is 2,746 acres;
-was rebuilt in I864, and the church restored in 1872, at a rateable value, £4,100; and the population in 188I was 479·

~cost of £ I,6oo: there are sittings for I70 persons. The LoNG LANE,! mile south and NonTON FERRIS, I! east,

register dates from the year 1538. The living is a rectory, are hamlets.
, average tithe rent-charge £386, net yearly value £435,

including 52 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift PosT OFFICE.-Miss Jane lugs, receiver. Letters arrive
, of the Earl of Ilchester, and held since 1866 by the Rev. from Bath, via Maiden Bradley, at 5.40 a.m. ; dispatched

Mark Warburton B.D. of Queen's College, Oxford, rural at 7.Io ~:m. The nearest money & telegraph ~ffice is at

. dean, and prebendary of Wells. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. I Mere, Wilts

· There are two charities of £3oo each, the interest of which National School, rebuilt with residence for the mistress, in
is distributed in money amongst 20 deserving poor, I874, at a cost of £640, for 70 children; average atten-

. annually. The manor of Kilmington once belonged to the dance, 54; Miss Elizabeth Jenkins, mistress

Herrington Thomas Edwards Charles, farmer· Hughes Samuel (Mrs.), baker

.Jarvis Samuel Field William & Edward, farmers Ings Jane (Miss), post office

,Lush Mrs Francis James, blacksmith Jarvis Samuel, farmer, Church farm

l''al"burton Rev. Mark B.D. rector & Fripp George, butcher Jew Henry, grocer & draper

rural dean, Rectory GaisfordJoseph,wheelwright & carpentr Maslin George, Red Lion P.H.Long lane

COMMERCIAL. Gascoigne James, blacksmith Reeves Arthur, farmer

Green Joseph, farmer, Norton Ferris Ryall Wm.(Mrs.), farmer,NortonFerris

Bird Joseph, coal dealer & haulier HerridgeAnn(Mrs.), frmr.NortonFerris StrideArchibald, shopkeeper, Stourton

Bishop Thomas, shoe maker ' Herrington Edward (Mrs.), farmer Stride Charles, farmer
Cook James Bence, grocer & draper j Hooper John, collector of rates & taxes Trimby Uriah, builder &c

Coombs Thomas, mason & poor's rates & assistant overseer

.l{lLTON-with-LILSTOCK is a parish formed March the addition of the purchase money: Sir Alexander Acland

p5th, I886, by Local Government Order, adding to the Hood hart. is the impropriator and has the great tithes, of

.. ,1..pofa rish of Lilstock part of the parish of Kilton, the remainder the value of about £70 yearly : the Rev. Samuel Shedden
which was amalga mated with Stringston an d Holford, M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford, has been vicar since I856.

. and the new parish so formed to be known as Kilton-with- George Fownes Luttrell esq. D.L., J. P. of Dunster Castle,

'Lilstock: it is in the Western division of the county, hundred who is lord of the manor of Kilton, and Sir Alexander

...of Williton and Freemanors, Williton petty sessional division, Bateman Periam Fuller-Acland-Hood hart. D.L., J.P. of St.

union and county court district, rural deanery of Bridg- Audries, West Quantoxhead, lord of Lilstock manor, are the

water, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and principal landowners. The soil is a stony rush, with some

\Wells. clay; subsoil, marl and gravel. The crops are wheat,

barley, oats, mangolds, potatoes and tu1'11ips. The area is

Kilton is a small village, situated I mile from the coast I,69I acres; rateable value, including Lilstock, £1,598; and
.. .of Bridgwater Bay, 7 miles east-north-east from Williton the population of Kilton in x88x was 141•

.station on the West Somerset branch of the Great Western Parish Clerk, James Evered.
J"ailway and 12 north-west from Bridgwater. The church of
St. Nicholas, entirely rebuilt in 1862, is an edifice of stone Letters are received through Bridgwater, via Kilve, & for
in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of southe1'11 portion of parish via Holford. Stogursey is the
chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower nearest money order & telegraph office. WALL Box near
containing 4 bells, one of which, dated I626, has the inscrip- the Vicarage, cleared at 6.30 p.m. week days only

tion, " Saucte Ricarde, ora pro nobis : "there is a handsome Parochial School (infants'), erected in I8S6; average attend-

rood screen and an ancient stone font : the communion plate ance, I5, & supported by voluntary contributions ; Miss

includes a sih'er chalice dated I563 ~ there are sittings for Green, mistress. The elder children attend at Stogursey
I 55 persons. The register dates from the year I683. The school

living is a vicarage, with the rectory of Lilstock annexed by
Prder in Council ISt .April, I88I, joint yearly value, £200, Lilstock (or LITTLE STOKE) is a small village containing
with residence and about 34. acres of glebe, in the gift of the a few scattered houses, situated on a headland on the Bristol

Bishop of Bath and Wells: the living was in the gift of the channel, 8 miles east from Williton station on the West

• tord Chancellor until I863, when it was purchased by Lord Somerset branch of the Great Western railway, and 12
1'aunton, who afterwards exchanged it with the Bishop for north-west from Bridgwater. The church of St. Andrew

t-he living of Over Stowey, and it has been augmented by was pulled down when the parish was ecclesiastically annexed

.JDIRECTORY SOlVIERSETSHIRE. KINGSBVRY EPISCOPI. 2'61

Ito Kilton in I88I, the chancel only being left, and now used I654· The acreage of the parish is 7IO; the population in

as a mortuary chapel. The register dates from the year I88I was 94·

Kilton. COMMERCIA!,. Lilstock.

Nichols Rev. William Luke M.A., F.S.A., Corner Wm. Chave, farmer, ·woodlands Evered John, farmer
F.R.Hist.s. Woodlands house (near Lloyd Alfred, farmer, Moorhouse Morris Henry, bailiff to Sir A. B. P.
Holford, Bridgwater)
Rawle Charles, farm bailiff to G. F. Fuller-Ackland Hood hart
Shedden Rev. Samuel ~r.A. Vicarage Wilcox Jesse, farmer
Luttrell esq
Risdon James, farmer, Plud farm

KILVE is a pleasant village and parish, bounded on the lost. A reading room was opened in October, I885, and has
north by the Bristol cbannel, and situated by the road from a library of about ISO volumes. George Fownes Luttrell
Bridgwater to Minehead, 6 miles east-north-east from Willi- esq. D.L., ;r.P. of Dunster Castle, who is lord of the manor,
ton station on the West Somerset branch of the Great and Mrs. St.. Albyn, of Alfoxton Park, Holford, are the
Western railway and I2 north-west-by-west from Bridgwater, prmcipal landowners. The soil is stony rush, with some
in the western division of the county, hundred of Williton clay; subsoil, marl and gravel; and produces good crops of
and Freemanors, Williton petty sessional division, union and wheat, oats, barley, mangolds, potatoes and turnips. The
county court district, rural deanery of Bridgwater, arch- area is I,69o acres; rateable value, £I,35I ; the population
deaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The in I88I was 222.
church of St. Mary, restored in I86r, is a small but ancient Parish Clerk, James Cracker.

building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch PosT OFFICE. -Samuel Coles, receiver. Letters arrive from
anB.ermaidr.egs&wt am7te.osronaetpy5.m.osr.2dea.Nrme&.th&teerl6e.SgItrooawpph.emyo.f&f;icdSeists.opgauPtcroshseetydalaatot:ersd.te4hr0es
and a low embattled western tower containing 2 bells: there
are sittings for ISO persons: near the church are some re-
mains of an ancient chantry : in the churchyard is a very
~large and ancient yew tree. The register dates from I538.
The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of Stringston an- are issued here, but n 9t paid

nexed, average tithe rent-charge £ 350 , joint net yearly value County Police.-Francis Hale, constable
£290, including 109 acres of glebe, with residence, in the Parochial School (mixed), erected in I876 by G. F. Luttrell

gift of Balliol College, Oxford, and held since I877 by the esq. on the road midway between Kilve & East Quantox-

Rev. Hay Sweet-Escott M.A. of that college. Here is a Con- head, for the use of the children of both parishes; it will

gregational chapel. There was formerly a small charity, hold 108 children; average attendaace, 76; Joseph Ayres

the funds of which were invested in a turnpike trust, and Keith, master

Badcock Daniel J.P. Kilve court Bartin Walter, boot & shoe maker 'Frampton William, wheelwright
Howland Rev. Conrad J. [curate] Coles Samuel, boot maker Merry Charles John, Hood's Arms P.ll
Sweet-Escott Rev. Hay M. A. Rectory Coren William, grocer & draper Reading Room (William Cracker, sec.),
Vinter James Thomas Thompson · Crocker James, blacksmith
Crocker Wm.dep.reg.of births &deaths Putsham
COMliiERCIAL. Evered George,miller (water),& farmer Sellick Robert, lodging house
Evered Thomas, farmer Selway William, farrier
Adams Robert, farmer, Kilve & Park- Floyd Robert, farmer, Padleston farm Smith George, butcher
house farms Summerhays William, farmer, Pu1si.am

KING'S BROMPTON, see BROMPTON REGIS.

KINGSBURY EPISCOPI is a village and parish, gable containing 2 bells: there are sittings for 200 persons.

situated on the river Parrett, 2! miles north-west from The register dates from the year I77I. The living is a.

Martock station on the Yeovil branch of the Great Western rectory, and consists of a portion only of the tithing of East

railway and 4 south-south-east from Langpmt, in the Lambrook, the tithes being commuted at £8s, gross yearly

Southern division of the county, hundred of Kingsbury East, value £rs9, including 35 acres of glebe, with house, in the

Ilminster petty ses!"ional division; union and county court gift of the Dean and Chapter of Wells, and held since 1876

district of Langport, rural deanery of Crewkerne, arch- by the Rev. Francis Hinde B.A. of Lincoln College, Oxford,

deaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. Under who resides at Clevedon: the vicar of Kingsbury is curate-

the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act," r882 (4S & 46 in-charge. The Dean and Chapter of Wells are lords of the

Vie. c. sS), portions of the former parish of North and South manor. The population is included in that of Kingsl;mry

Bradon were incorporated in this parish, March 2s, x88s. Episcopi, and have rights of marriage and burial in the

The church of St. Martin is a noble edifice of stone, princi- parish church and churchyard.

pally in the Early English style, but portions appear to date West Lambrook is a tithing in the parish of Kingsbury
from the reign of Henry VII. : the building was restored Episcopi, 3~ miles west from Martock station.
during the period I845 to I849, and consists of chancel,
nave, aisles, transepts, south porch and an embattled western Mid Lambrook is a hamlet lying midway between
tower I20 feet high, with pinnacles, and containing a clock East and West Lambrook and half a mile from each, and there
and s bells : there are sittings for S40 persons. The register is a Congregational chapel.

dates from the year ISS7· The living is a vicarage, average Southay is a hamlet, adjoining East Lambrook on the
tithe rent-charge £315, gross yearly value £3391 including north.
I2 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of
Bath and Wells, and held since 1879 by the Rev. Henry Burrow, Ii miles south-west, Lake, 2 south-west, and

John Phillips. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. There is a Stembridge, I mile south-west, are also tithings in the
charity for apprenticing poor boys, and another of £r2 parish of Kingsbury Episcopi.
yearly value for the second poor. Willillm Wyndham esq. THORNEY, I! miles north, is a hamlet partly in t.his

B.A., D.L., J.P. of Dinton House, Salisbury, is lord of the parish and partly in Muchelney.

manor, and Viscount Portman J.P. Thomas Mariott-Doding- Parish Clerk of Kingsbury, Henry Eves.

ton M. A., J.P. of Horsington House, Mrs. Beadon, the trustees Chapel Clerk of East Lambrook, James Bisgro,·e.

of the late William Stuckey, Messrs. Robert Sanson Rood, PosT OFFICE.-Edmund Satherley, sub-postmaster. Lett.crs

Pittard and Son, Bradford & ~ons, J. Gale and Mrs. England arrive from Ilrninster at B.s a.m. ; dispatched at 4.50

are the chtef landowners. The soil is clay and loam ; the p. m. week days only. Martock is the nearest money order

subsoil clay and partly gravel. The chief crops are wheat, & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here, but not

barley, beans, flax and apples, and a large quantity of cider paid

is made here. The area is 3,576 acres ; rateable value, WALL LETTER BOXES.-8tembridge, cleared 5·S p.m. week

£8,023 ; the population in r88r was r,sr4. days onlv ; East Lambrook, cleared s.30 p.m. week days

Police Station.-William Stent, constable only; West Lambrook, cleared 5.so p.m. week days only ;
& Thorney, cleared 7.25 a. m. & 5·4.5 p.m. week days only

EastLambrookisatithingintheparishofKingsbury, A School Board of 6 members was formed June 4, 1874;

situated on a branch of the river Parrett, 2! miles south-by- John Louch, Langport, clerk to the board; A. W. Willy,

west from Martock station on the Yeo\·il branch of the Great attendance officer

Western railway, and s~ north-east from Ilminster. The Board School, Stembridge (mixed), erected in I877, for 270

chapel of St. James is a small but ancient edifice of stone, children ; average attendance, 222 ; George Sharpe,

consisting of chancel, nave, west porch and a western bell- master ; l\Irs. Ellen Sharpe, mistress

Kingsbury Episcopi. Phillips Rev. Henry John, Vicarage Cox Bernard, miller (water) & farmer,

[Marked thus • receive their letters through COMMERCIAL. Gawbridge mills [Letters through
Bishop John Coate, saddler Martock]
Langport.] Brister James, wheelwright England John, coal dealer
Clark John, saddler England Susan (Mrs.), farmer
Bradford Theophilus John Frampton,
Bladon Coate Susan Chapple (Miss), beer retlr Frost Thomas, dairyman

Bulgin Mrs Coate Waiter, farmer Glover John, shopkeeper & farmer
England George

262 KINGSBURY EPISCOPI. SOMERSETSHIRE~ [KELLY'S

Gummer William, carpenter Long Tom, baker Burrow.

Harvey George, shoe maker Loveridge Elias, farrier Bradford Brothers, farmers, Blado

Jennings Edwin J<'rancis, farmer Millard Bros. builders & shopkeepers & Lower Burrow farms

Land Louisa(Mrs. ),Wyndham ArmsP.H Millard William Jas. Sydney, beer retlr Pottenger Harvey, farmer &landowner,
Lovell James, wheelwright Northern Charles, farmer & dairyman Burrow farm

Lovell John Thomas, farmer Porter Charles, farmer Sibley Sarah (Mrs.), farmer

Male Thomas, blacksmith & shopkeeper Priddle James, farmer Stark Benj. farmer, Burrow Hill farm

Millard Waiter James, baker Scott Richard Wyndham, farmer Wille:y Abel, farmer

Pittard Sarah (Mrs. ),farmr.& landownr Stuckey Samuel, shopkeeper

Police Station (William Stent,constable) Stuckey Walter, wheelwright Stembridge.

Quantock Samuel, poultry dlr.& farmer Wellington Edwin, farmer England Mrs
Rood William, farmer Harvey Samuel, shoe maker
Satherley Edmund, farmer & baker, Mid-Lambrook. Jeans John, farmer
Lovell Mary Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer,
Post office Derriman John
Savidge John, butcher Say Rev. George [Congregational] Stembridge ash
Tilley Charlotte (Mrs.), New inn Edwards & Son, farmers Pottenger John, farmer
Garland Mary & Son, farmers
Willy Arthur White, emigration agent Thorney.
& relieving officer, 1st district, Lang-

port union S outhay. [Letters through Langport R.S.O.]
Willy Edwin, drapr. grocr.& asst.oversr
Willy Ernest Augustus, corn dealer Patten Jasper, fanner Bradford Job, Chesnut house
Willy Lucy Ann (Miss), shopkeeper Quick Henry, dairyman Bradford Watson Richards
Bradford William Richards
Willy. Susan (Mrs.), farmer West Lambrook. Willmott Mrs. 'lhorney cottage

East Lambrook. Cooper Edward, farmer Bradford Brothers, millers (water),.
Thorney mills ; & farmers, Bladon &
Alien George Edgar, Laurel villa Hebditch JohnTerrell,farmer,NewCross
Batstone William Stark,baker & shopkpr Newiss George, farmer Lower Burrow farms
Cooper Edward, farmer Pittard Robert Rood, farmer, Rodwell Bradford & Sons, general merchants
Gummer Nancy (Mrs.), beer retailer Stevens Francis Paul, blacksmith BradfordRhoda(Mrs.),farmr.&landownr
Inder Luke, blacksmith 8tuckey Isaac, wheelwright Hook Wtlliam, beer retailer

XINGSDON is a parish and village, situated on the high persons. The register dates from the year 1559. The living

road from Langport to Wincanton and Castle Cary, 6 miles is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £342, net yearly value £36o,
west from Sparkford station on the Great Western railway, including 61 acres of glebe, with residence, now in the gif.t
7 east from Langport, in the Eastern division of the county, of Capt. William Neal J.P. and held since 1835 by the Rev.
hundred and petty sessional division of Somerton, union and Peter Hansell M. A. late ·fellow of University Coli. Oxford.
county court district of Langport, Ilchester district of the Kingsdon is the seat of Capt. William NealJ.P. who is lord of
rural deanery of Glastonbury, archdeaconry of Taunton and the manor and principal landowner. The soil is rocky ; the

diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of All Saints is an subsoil IS clay. The chief crops are wheat and beans. The

ancient building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular area is 2,207 acres; rateable value, £2,723; the population
styles, consisting of chancel, with vestry on the north side, in 1881 was 353·
nave, transepts and an embattled western tower containing Sexton, Frederick John Sams.
a clock and 5 bells: near the door is a stoup, and in the PosT OFFICE. - George H. Perrott, receiver. Letters
.chancel a piscina: in the north transept is the recumbent through Taunton arrive at 6.15 a.m.; box closes at 6.10
effigy of a knight, said to represent one Guy Bryant: the p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at
present rector has added a quarter of an acre to the church- Ilchester
yard : there are stained memorial windows to Mrs. Neal and I National School (mixed), erected in 1872, by W. Neal esq.
Miss Neal and others: the church affords sittings for 225 for 6o children; average attendance, 45; Miss Beale, mist

Bond John James, Springfield Bishop Waiter, farmer, Park farm Otton John, collar, saddle & harness
maker; & at Long Sutton
Hansell Rev. Peter M.A. Rectory Bond John James, farmer
Peddle William J. shoe maker
Neal Capt. William J.P. Kingsdon Boon Thomas, farmer Perrott Samuel, baker,grocer,draper &c
Stuckey George, farmer
Beel James, blacksmith, carpenter & Culliford George, blacksmith

wheelwright Norris Philip, beer retailer

KINGSTON (or KINGSTON ST. MARY) is a parish and for the teaching of poor children, arising from the rent of a

village, situated under the southern extremity of the Quan- field in Halse parish, now let for £23. Charities producing
tock hills, 3 miles north from Taunton station on the main £so yearly are distributed on St. Thomas' day by the vicar,
line of the Great Western railway, in the Western division churchwardens and overseers of the parish.

of the county, hundred of Taunton and Taunton Dean, On the east side of this parish, on rising ground, very
petty sessional division, union and county court district of richly wooded, stands Hestercombe, now the property of
Taunton, rural deanery and 11rchdeaconry of Taunton and Viscount Portman: this estate, in the time of King Edward
diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary, placed the Confessor, was parcel of the possessions of the Abbey of
on a slight eminence, about 150 yards from the high road to Glastonbury, but was given by the Conqueror to the Bishop
Bridgwater, is an interesting edifice of stone in the Early of Coutances; it was subsequently in the possession of the
English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel with Bishops of Winchester as part of their manor of Taunton, and
south aisle, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a came into the possession of the Warre family in the reign of
western tower, 70 feet in height, with octagonal turret and Henry Ill. ; from the late Miss Warre it passed into the
crocketed pinnacles and containing a fine peal of 6 bells: hands of Lord Ashburton, who sold it to the present pro.
the tower, a very fine example, is somewhat peculiar in its prietor : the manor now fonns part of the manor of Taunton
construction, being widest from north to south • it is of Dean.
three stages and has an embattled and panelled parapet and Tetton, the residence of Francis Henry Cheetham esq.
flying pinnacles bracketed out from the pinnacles at the commands a splendid prospect of the vale of Taunton Dean ;

angles, at the level of the cap moulding: in the south the shrubberies and pleasure grounds of 25 acres contain
chancel aisle is an altar-tomb of the Warre family, of Hes- remarkably fine specimens of coniferre, including the crypto-

tercombe; the sides, of Ham Hill stone, are divided by meria of Japan and the deodar, both of which have here
flowing tracery into six compartments, containing shields, on attained the height of nearly 40 feet ; there are also noble
which some traces of the blazonry still remain ; the tomb is cedars and very fine examples of the weeping pine.
covered with a slab of Purbeck marble, and may be assigned The Grange, the property and residence of Mrs. Eden,
to the middle of the reign of Ed ward Ill. : the two w~tern- was restored by the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott R.A. and
most bays of the south aisle are appropriated to and kept exhibits in its grounds a very fine collection of the same
in repair by the owner of the Tetton property, and on that description of foliage, to which the soil and climate of this
account this portion of the fabric is usually called "the neighbourhood seem especially suited. 'l'ainfield, the pro-
Tetton aisle ; " the carving of the bench ends and of the perty and residence of Lady Caroline Chapman, is pleasantly
front of the stalls is very fine, being very richly and deeply situated in undulating grounds, from which most romantic
cut ; some of the designs are extremely beautiful, and one views of the surrounding district are obtained. 'fhe hamlet
bears the date 1522: the font is of good Perpendicular char- of NAILSBOURNE is a very ancient and once important place,
acter: there are sittings for 300 persons. The parish and gives its name to a tithing. The parish of Kingston is
register dates from 1677. The living is a vicarage, average well watered by ever-flowing streamlets from the Quantock
tithe rent-charge £168, net yearly value £260, including 32 hills, from one of which this name is derived. Owing to
acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of the Dean and a peculiarity of the soil, the orchards of this parish produce
Chapter of Bristol, and held since 1888 by the Rev. Edwin an exceptionally fine apple, known as the "Kingston black
Bamford M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford. Here is a apple," from which cider of the finest quality is extensively
Congregational chapel, built in 1864. There is a bequest made; the principal grower in the distrk't is Mr. Bult, of

JDIRECTORY. SOMERSETSHIRE. KINGW.ESTON. 263

Dodhill, who has also attained great celebrity for his breed of Sexton, Henry Babb.

short-homed cattle, which has twice taken the gold medal
at the annual Metropolitan Cattle show. lrwin Edwin PosT OFFICE.-William Morrell, sub-postmaster. Letters

Bainbridge Cox esq..J.P., D.L. of Moat Mount, Mill Hill, arrive from Taunton at 8.5 a. m. & 4·5 p.m; dispatched

Middlesex, is lord of the manor. The principal landowners II.3o a.m. & 5·5 p.m.; snnday at 9 p.m. The nearest
are Viscount Portman, The Hon. Alan Percy Molyneux money order & telegraph office is at Taunton. Postal
Herbert M.D. of 18, rue Duphot, Paris, Charles Edward orders are issued here, but not paid

Jeffries Esdaile esq. of Cothelstone House, Lady Carolina Parochial School (mixed), built by the late W. E. Surtees

Chapman and James Slee Bult esq. The soil is loamy, light esq. & enlarged in 1889, chiefly at the expense of F. H.
Cheethamesq.; for 16o children; average attendance, 130;
and stony ; subsoil, clay, slaty and loose stony rock. The
chief crops are the cider apple, wheat, barley, roots and Thomas J. Bunston, master

some land in permanent pasture. The area is 3,378 acres ;

rateable value, £7,86o; the population in 1881 was 942· Police Station, Samuel James Newberry, constable in charge

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Biffen Alfred, farmer, Nailsburn farm i Hutchins Alfred,frmr.LowerMarsh frm

Arden-Gorwyn Mrs. Larch cottage Blackmore John, farmer, Volis farm Langford Isaac, cooper

Bamford Rev. Edwin M.A. Vicarage Bromfield James, blacksmith Leach Arthur, mason
Bell William Daniel, Fulfordcottage Bucknell William, farmer, Hill farm Middleton Henry Robert,farmer,Higher

Chapman Lady Carolina, Tainfield BultJamesSlee, farmer&cidergrower, Marsh farm

Cheetham Francis Henry, Tetton Dodhill house Morrell William, baker, Post office
Denning Henry, Hill Side cottage
Carnall :Elizabeth (Mrs.), miller &c. Morrish Henry, Francis & Alfred, far-
Eden Mrs. Charles c. The Grange
(water), Mill eross mers, Parks farm
George Alfred William, Mill Cross
Carter Herbert Thos. grocer & draper Norman Christopher, farmer,Mill cross

Graves Alfred Percival, West Hay Coles Elizabeth (Mrs.), butcher Oaten John, farmer

LangdonMrs. Kingston villa Coombe William, Swan inn Pearse John, farmer, Lower Portman

Lee Henry, Albion house Cornish William, shoe ma. Nailsbourne IPPoepllpaardrdAWlfraeldte, rfJaarmmeesr,, farmer,Yarford
Paulin HenryBradshaw,Fulfordgrange Criddle Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Fulford

PortmanViscountD.L.,J.P.Hestercombe; Curry Samuel, shoe maker Ridler James,farm bailiff to Loads farm

& 22 Portman square w & Brooks' Dening John, farmer, Toulton farm Sealey George, shoe maker
& Travellers' clubs, London 8 w Dollins Francis, farmer, Cooks farm Sparks James, blacksmith

Sinclair Mrs. Hunt's cottage Edwards Arth. assist. oversr. The Green SnmmerhaysHenry,frmr.LittleYarford

Tooze Thomas, Myrtle cottage Ellett James, farmer, Tarr farm Totterdell Charles, thatcher 1

Gamblin Jn. farrier & beer ret. Fulford Turner George, farmer, Tetton farm

COMMERCIAL. Gamblin Waiter, butcher· Whittle George, farmer, Grove farm

.Babb Henry, carpenter & parish sexton Hewett John, farmer, Cutley Woodford William, boot & shoe makeT

KINGSTON, near Ilminster. is a small parish and Billing K.c.r•. , Ph.n. Giessen University, Germany, who is

village, situated on the road from Crewkerne to Ilminster, also vicar of and resides at Lopen. Arthnr Vanghan
I mile south-east from Ilminster, and 6 miles north-west Banning Vaughan-Lee esq. is impropriator of the tithes and

from Crewkerne, in the Southern division of the county, hun- glebe. Earl Poulett is lord of the manor and chief land-
dred of Tintinhull, union of Chard, county court district of owner. The soil is sandy loam ; subsoil, chip sand. The
Crewkerne, Ilminster petty sessional division, rural deanery crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 959 acres;
of Crewkeme, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath rateable value, [,2,335; the population in r881 was 228.
and Wells. The church of All Saints is an ancient building of ALLOWENSHAY is a hamlet, a mile and a half south-east.
stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, LunNEY is a small hamlet, half a mile east.
aisles, south porch and a central tower containing 4 bells : Letters through Ilminster, which is also the nearest money
there are sittings for 120 persons. The register dates from order & telegraph office, arrive at 8 a. m
the year 1714- The living is a vicarage, yearly value, £6o, WALL LETTER Box, cleared at 6.25 p.m
in the gift of the trustees of the late Major V. H. Vaughan- The children of this place attend Dowlish Wake & Hinton St.

Lee M.P. and held since 1875 by the Rev. Robert Phelps George schools

Pittman Mrs Creed Henry, farmer Leaves Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper,
Crisp John, farmer, Allowenshay Allowenshay
COMMERCIAL. Harris George (Mrs.), blacksmith,
Brice Wm. miller (water), Allowenshay Rntter George, farmer, Allowenshay
Chick Zachariah, carpenter & wheel- Allowenshay
Jeffery John Lnmbard, farmer, Al- Scott Edmnnd, farmer, Ludney
wright, Allowenshay Tucker John, marine store dealer
lowenshay
Webb Joseph, farmer, Allowenshay

KINGSTON SEYMOUR is a village and parish, situ• year 1727. The living is a rectory, yearly value £305, with

ated on a rich and fertile plain, extending to the shore of the 65 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the trustees of
Bristol channel, 2~ miles west-north-west from Yatton the late Mrs. Pigott, and held since 1854 by the Rev. George
station on the Bristol and Exeter section of the Great Octavius Smyth-Pigott, of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. Cecil

Western railway, 3t south from Clevedon and 15 south- Hngh Smyth-Pigott esq. J.P. of Brockley Court, is lord
west from Bristol, in the Northern division of the county, of the manor; Philip Simmons esq. William Jerdone

Bedminster union, Bristol county court district, Winter- Braikenridge esq. J.P. of 16 Royal crescent, Bath, and
stoke hundred, Long Ashton petty sessional division, rural George Badman esq. are the principal landowners. The
deanery of Portishead, archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of area is 2,6r6 acres of rich grass land; rateable value, £7,35g;

Bath and Wells. The church of All Saints is an ancient the population in 1881 was 293.
edifice of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, Sexton, William Scribbins.

nave, south aisle, south porch and an embattled western Letters anreearreecsetimveodnferyomordYeart&tontelRe.gSr.aOp.haotff9icae. m. Yatton
tower with pinnacles and spire, containing a <'lock and S is the

bells; it was completely restored in r865 at a cost of £,700: WALL LETTER Box, cleared at 2 p.m

the chancel was rebuilt, at a cost of £350, by the present
rector, who also gave an organ, at a cost of £6o, and inserted INSURANCE AGENT.-Phrenix Fire, E. Griffin

the east window as a memorial to Mrs. Anne Pigott : there National School (mixed), for 6o children; average attend-
are sittings for 200 persons. The register dates from the ance, 25 ; James Smith, master

Smyth-Pigott Rev. George Octavius, Gould Charles, farmer Stuckey Frank, farmer, Yew Tree farm

Rectory Griffin Alfred, farmer, Riverside farm Stnckey Henry, farmer

COIIIMERCIAL. Griffin Charles, farmer, Rookery farm Sweet Richard, farmer

I GriffinEdwd.corn dealer & assist.oversr Wallis Emma (Mrs.), farmer

Baker Charles, shoe maker James Daniel, farmer WallisHarriet(Mrs. ), fnnr.Plenties frm
Wallis JamesParsons, frmr.Poplar farm
Bird Fanny (:Mrs.), farmer, Pool farm Jones Harry, farmer, Oak farm Wallis John, farmer, Ham farm

Burge William, farmer, Mendip farm Jones Robert, farmer White Cecilia (Mrs.), grocer, draper &
beer retailer
Coombs John, farmer Lm·ell William, farmer
Williams Elizabeth {Mrs.), farmer
DavisJobn(Mrs.),frmr.CourtHousefrm Parsley Hugh, farmer Williams Thomas, farmer

Denmead Charles, farmer PhippenThomas,farmr.MiddleLane frm

Denmead John, farmer, Rustic farm Price Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer '

Gage Ellen(:Mrs. ),farmer,SeaWall farm I Price Sarah (Mrs.), farmer

XINGWESTON (or KENWARDSTON) is a parish, 7miles Langport, hundred of Catsash, deanery of Cary, archdea-

west from Castle Cary station on the Great Western railway, conry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The
8 east-north-east from Langport, and 3 north-east from church of All Saints, rebuilt in 1855 at the expense of
Somerton, in the Eastern division of the county, Somerton Francis Henry Dickinson esq. D.L., J.P. is a building of
petty sessional division, county court district and union of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave,

264 KINGWESTON. SOMERSETSHIRE.

transepts, south porch and a western tower with spire con- chief crops are wheat, roots, grass and orchard produce~
taining a clock and 5 bells : there are sittings for 120 persons. The area is r, 166 acres; rateable value, £1,104 ; the popula-

The registers date from the year t6o8. The living is a tion in 1881 was 148.

rectory, average tithe rent-charge £131, net yearly value Parish Clerk, James Gardner.
£147, including 25 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Elizabeth Dabinett, receiver. Letters
of l<"rancis Henry Dickinson esq. and held since 1859 by the from Somerton S.O. which is the nearest money order

Rev. Charles Carey M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford. There office, arrive 7·5 a.m. ; dispatched at 5·45 p.m.; sundays
are quarries from which blue Iias is obtained. Kingweston at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched 9.30 p.m. Keinton Mandeville

House is the seat of Francis Henry Dickinson esq. F.S.A., n.L., is the nearest telegraph office

J.P. who is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The The children of this place attend the schools at Barton St.
soil is blue lias ; the subsoil is stonebrash and clay. The David & Charlton Mackrell

Carey Rev. Charles M.A. Rectory Laver Robert Laver Robt. auctionr.frmr. &cattle dlr
Snell William F. farmer
Dickinson Francis Henry F.S.A. ,n.L. ,J. P. Dabinett Edwin William, blacksmith Wyatt Benjamin, farmer

Kingweston house Gardner James, thatcher

KITTISFORD is a parish and village, situated on the The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £125, gross

river Tone, 4 miles north-west from Wellington station on yearly value £280, including 109 acres of glebe, with house,.
the Bristol and Exeter section of the main line of the Great in the gift of trustees, and held since 1862 by the Rev_

Western railway, and 4 south from Wiveliscombe station on William James Caulfeild Browne M.A. of St.•Tohn's College.,
the Devon and Somerset branch of the same, in the Western Oxford. Robert Charles Thomas Pearce, who is lord of the..

division of the county, hundred of Milverton, Wellington manor, the trustees of the late John Spurway esq. of Spring-
petty sessional division, union and county court district, Grove, Milverton, and William Sweet esq. of Apley, Stawley,.
Wellington district of the rural deanery of Taunton, arch- are the chief landowners. Considerable portions of the olcl
dP..aconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The manor house, locally known as "Cothay Abbey," still exist,
church of St. Nicholas is a building chiefly in the Decorated and are used as a farm house and outbuildings; the house,.

style, consisting of chancel with south aisle, nave of two erected in the reign of Henry VIII. was originally much.
bays, south aisle, north chantry, south porch and an em- larger, the left hand wing and one arch of the gateway hav-
battled western tower containing 3 bells : the south aisle ing been removed; one of the rooms contains a handsom3
retains a piscina : some of the windows are of Perpendicular fireplace of the time of J ames II. The soil is clayey, and the
date: the piers and arches of the aisle are of oak, and are subsoil is chiefly red shillet. The crops are mostly wheat,.
probably contemporaneous with the pulpit, which is dated barley and roots. The acreage is 952 ; rateable value,
1610: in the chancel aisle is an ancient brass with effigies of £1,222; the population in 1881 was II3.
a knight and his lady : the st.ained east window is a memorial Sexton, Thomas Fouracre.

to the Rev. James Caulfcild Browne n.c.L. late vicar of Letters by foot post from Wellington, which is the nearest.

Dudley, Worcestershire, who died in 187o, erected in 1876 money order & telegraph office, arrive at 8.30 a.m. Post-
by his son, the present rector: the church was almost entirely man calls at Parsonage at 4·45p.m. for letters
rebuilt in 1875, and has sittings for 150 persons. The register The children of this village attend the Bathealton, Kittis-

of baptisms and burials dates from 1694; marriages, 1695. ford & West Milverton district school at Bathealton

Browne Rev. William James Caulfeild Dinham John, dairyman, Newhouse Loveband Lucy (Mrs.), farmer, Kittis-

M.A. [rector], Rectory Godwin Charlotte (Mrs.), frmr.Bearley ford Barton

Cape Sarah Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Cot- Gurnsey Richard, thatcher Stevens Charles,dairyman,Rectory frm

hay abbey Hayman Frederick, miller (water)

KNOWLE ST. GILES is a small parish and village, jiS a vicarage, gross yearly value £138, in the gift of the·

3 miles south from Ilminster, and 2t north-east from 1 Bishop of London, and held since 1889 by the Rev. William
Chard, in the Southern division of the county, hundred Sparrow Watson M. A. of Trinity College, Dublin, and who is•
of South Petherton, Ilminster petty sessional division, also head master of the Grammar school at Chard, where he•
Chard union and county court district, rural deanery of resides. Earl Poulett is lord of the manor and chief land-
Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath owner. The soil is clay, sand and gravel; subsoil, chiefly
and Wells. The church of St. Giles is a small building of sand and clay. The crops are wheat, barley, tlax and some.
stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, land in pasture. The area is 721 acres ; rateable value,
south porch and a western turretcontaining2 bells; the east £1,173; the population in t88t was 105.
and west windows are stained and there are memorial win- Parish Clerk, George Domney.

dows to the Alien family, to one of whom, formerly vicar Letters received through Chard, the nearest money order &:
here, there is a memorial brass on the west wall : the pulpit telegraph office, arrive at 9 a.m
and font are of stone, finely carved : in the church is an altar
tomb and there are others in the churchyard, well carved, and The nearest WALL LETTER Box is at Chaffcombe, & is
cleared at 6.5 p.m
in a fair state of preservation : the church was rebuilt and

enlarged in 1840, and has sittings for 155 persons. The Church of England School (mixed), for 30 children; average
register dates from 1784, but is very imperfect. The living attendance, 24 ; Miss Carolina Price, mistress

Board William, farmer Turner 'Samuel, dairyman, Woodhouse Vincent William, farmer, Pincombe

Charles William, dairyman,Woodhouse Vincent John, farmer, Woodhouse Willy Thomas, farmer & rope maker

Mead Arthur, farmer, Knowle farm

J.AMYATT is a village and parish, 2 miles north-west 1oolite, 8oo feet in height, was anciently a Saxon stronghold!

from Bruton station on the Great Western railway, and 6 I and some fields adjoining still bear the name Oldsborougho
south-east from Shepton Mallet, in the Eastern division of I (Tent. burg or bu1·gh, a fortified place). Edward Berkeley-
the county, Whitestone hundred, Shepton Mallet petty ses- Napier esq. D.L., J.P. of Pennard House, East Pennard, is
sional divisionand union, Wellscountycourtdistrict, Bruton lord of the manor, and the representatives of Dr. Frowd,
district of the rural deanery, and archdeaconry of Taunton Mr. C. Welch, the representatives of the late Mr. Norton.
and diocese of Bath and Wells. The village has a good and Messrs. Harding and Mrs. Cary are chief landowners.
supply of water obtained from springs. The church of St. The soil is loam; the subsoil is clay. The chief crops are-
Mary and St. John is an ancient building of stone in the Per- grass, and dairy farming is carried on extensively. The·
pendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch acreage is 1,000; rateable value, £2,292; the population in
and a low western tower containing 3 bells : the church was t88t was 250.
restored internally in 1853, and again partially in 1888, at a Parish Clerk, William Ovens.
cost of £120: there are sittings for 150 persons. The PosT OFFICE.-William Ovens, receil'er. Letters through

register dates from the year 1613. The living is a rectory, Bath, via Evercreech, arrive at 1·55 a. m. on week days ;
average tithe rent-charge {,176, net yearly value £210, in- dispatched at 6.30 p.m. Evercreech is the nearest money·
eluding 43 acres of glehe, with residence, in the gift of order & telegraph office
trustees, and held since 1881 by the Rev. Henry Copleston National School (mixed & infants), erected in 1829, for 50.
Guyon M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. Here is a children ; average attendance, 30; William Jeneway,
Wesleyan chapel, built in 1865. Creech Hill, an eminence of master; Mrs. Ann Jeneway, mistress

Alien James Dredge, Belle vue Martin Sidney, farmer, Whaddon farm Penny Jeremiah, farmer
Guyon Rev. Hy. Copleston M. A. Rectory Moon Emma & Elizh. (Misses), farmers Plowman Steph. Jn. shopkeeper& bakel"
Hoddinott Albert, dairy farmer, Snagg Norman Richard, farmer Shephard Lot, frmr. Arthur'sBridgefm.
Ovens Wm. &Son, bldrs. &timber mers White Daniel, farmer
farm Pearce James, farmer, Poplar farm Whitting William, dairy
Look John, farmer

LANGFORD BUDVILLE is a parish and village, station on the Bristol and Exeter section of the Great Western:

situated on the river Tone, and on the road from Wellington railway, 4~ south-east from Wil'eliscombe and 2 sonth from
to Wiveliscombe, 2~ miles north-west from Wellington Milverton, in the Western division of the county, hundrect

DIRECTORY.] SO!iERSETSHIRE. LANGPORf. 265

of Milverton, Wellington petty sessional division, union Mixed Tudor style, is the pleasant residence of Charles

and county court district, Wellington district of the rural Lamport esq. J.P. : the surrounding estate of about _140

deanery, and archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath acres is situated partly in the adjoining parish of Milverton.

and Wells. The church of St. Peter is an ancient building of Wellisford Manor is the residence of Thomas Henry Ricketts

stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave Winwood esq. M.A., D. L., J.P. William Ayshford Sanford

of three bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western esq. D.L., J.P. of Nynehead Court, is lord of the manor and

tower containing a clock with chimes and 6 bells ; the clock chief landowner. The soil is sandy and gravelly loam ; the

was presented in 1881 by the Rev. Thomas Hans Sotheby subsoil, chiefly new red sandstone and conglomerate. The

B.A. late rector, who also gave four of the eight stained chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. 'fhe acreage is

windows : a brass with Latin inscription recording his many 1,854; rateable value, £2,465 ; the population in x88I was

gifts to the parish has been placed in the church : the north 363.

aisle was added in x866 :the south aisle retains a holy water PosT OFFICE.-Joseph Winter, sub-postmaster. Letters
stoup : there are sittings for 300 persons. The registers
date from the year I538. The living is a rectory, gross arrive from Wellington at 7-5 a. m. ; dispatched at 5·35

yearly value £ 2go, including 2 acres of glebe with house, in p.m. No sunday dispatch or delivery; Milverton is the

the gift of the Archdeacon of Taunton, and held since I888 nearest money order & telegraph office ; London & south

by the Rev. William Henry Fowle B.A. of Trinity College, country letters are delivered the following day & north

Oxford. The churchyard was enlarged in 1875• at a cost of country letters a day later

£150, and the portion added is under the control of a Burial National School (mixed), erected in 185I, for So children;

Board of 9 members. Bindon House, a mansion in the average attendance, 53 ; Frederick Mathews, master

Fowle Rev. William Henry B.A. [rector] I Coles John, farmer, Poleshill Prince Albert's Somersetshire Light

Green Oliver Lamport, Langford court Crocker Henry, shopkeeper Infantry, 3rd Volunteer Battalion

Lamport Charles J.P. Bindon house; & Davys William, farmer, Leigh farm (Capt. C. L. Edwards; H. W. Collins,
acting surgeon; Rev. W. B. de.
Reform club, London s w Ewens Henry, farmer, Furzedown

Winwood Thomas Heqry Ricketts M. A., Langdon Lewis, farmer, Beer farm Moleyns M. A. hon. chaplain)

D.L., J.P. Wellisford manor Lock Richard, farmer, Harpford mills Stevens John, wheelwright &shopkeepr

COMMERCIAL. jOusely Henry, Martlet inn Stone Albert, blacksmith
Carpenter John, farmer, Stancombe
Pamell Annie (Mrs.), farmer, Lower Working Men's Reading Room (Fredk.

Cemetery (Frederick Mathews, clerk to Chipleigh Hancock, caretaker)

the burial board) Solway William, farmer, Gundenham Yeandle William, farmer, Wellisford

I.ANGPORT is a parish and small market and union 1 herein 1826, and died in 1877: in the south chapel are memo-

town and head of a county court district, with a station on rial windows erected by Vincent Stuckey esq. to his mother
the Yeovil branch of the Great Western railway, 164!, miles and grandfather, and two others,one to Thomas Paul, erected

by rail and 130 by road from London, 5 west-south-west byW. Bond Paulesq. and another to ThomasGillett, founder
from Somerton, 13 east from 'faunton, in the Eastern of the grammar school: the brass eagle lectern was pre-
division of the county, Pitney hundred, Somerton petty sented by Mr. and M.rs. Louch: a marble reredos, designed

sessional division, Ilchester district of the rural deanery of by Mr. J. D. Sedding, architect, was erected by privatesub-
Glastonbury, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Hath scription in 1887, at a cost of £4oo: the church was restored
and Wells. The town was incorporated by charter of James in 1887, and has 430 sittings. The register dates from 1715.
I. ; the corporation, consisting of a portreeve and eleven bur- The hving, which was formerly annexed to the vicarage of
gesses, a justice and two bailiffs, together with a recorder, Huish Episcopi, was separated April 4, 1876, and is now a

town clerk and sergeant-at-mace, was abolished, under the vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £sS, gross yearly value

provisions of the "Municipal Corporations Act. 46 & 47Vic.cap. £288, with house, in the gift of the Archdeacon of Wells, and
18,1883;" there is now a town trust formed. The town was held since 1883 by the Rev. Alexander Colvin Ainslie llt:.A.,
anciently very large, and is said to have been moated, but LL.D. of University College, Oxford, and prebendary of Wells.

few vestiges of fortification are now discernible; it consists There is a Baptist chapel, built in 18.')2, and seating 120

chiefly of two streets, and stands mostly on a small ascent, persons; the Congregational chapel, erected in 1828, has 250
having a tract of rich level champaign on the north, west and sittings. The Cemetery, an acre and a quarter in .extent,
south. The main street of the town is very narrow, but the was formed in 188o, at a cost of £1,400 and has a mortuary
upper part, being on an eminence, commands beautiful and chapel; it is under the control of a Burial Board of 7 members.

extensive views. The two large open spaces, called "Corn- Two persons from this parish are eligible for the almshouses

mon Moor" and "Wagg Common," over which there were at Somerton. £7 15s. from Bond's charity is distributed
formerly rights of pasture, have been allotted and inclosed. yearly. The Town Hall and market are spacious ; adjoining is
The Parrett, navigable here for barges, flows through the a library with reading-room. The Temperance Hall, opened

lower part of the town, and is crossed by a stone bridge of in x88o, is used for entertainments and lectures, and will hold

three arches. The town in the time of William tre Con- 30 persons. The G troop of the West Somerset Yeomanry
qneror was a royal burl!h, with thirty-four resident bur- Cavalry and the H Co. of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Prince

gesses, who, under the name of the manor of Somerton, paid Albert's Somersetshire Light Infantry are stationed· here.
a rent of 15s. to the king. There were two fisheries on the At the entrance of the town from the east is an ancient

river which belonged to the borough, and paid a rent of xos. gateway, o¥er which stands a school house or chapel. Lang-

and the whole revenue of the place was rated at £79 ros.7d. port is the seat of considerable traffic, by means of the river
yearly, a very large sum in those days. The county police and railway ; a number of boats ply between here and
have the control of the town. The town is lighted with gas Bridgwater, laden with coal, stone, salt and bricks. The
supplied by a company; the water supply is obtained from market day is Tuesday ; and cattle markets are held every
wells, by means of pumps placed in different parts of the alternate Tuesday, and two large markets on the second

town. The church of All Saints i111 an ancient building of Tuesday in March and December. A horse fair is held
stone, in the Perpendicular style, standing on an eminence September 3rd. The town trustees have the royalty of the

at the east end of the town, consisting of chancel, nave of river, and are lords of the manor. Hill House is the resi-
five bays, aisles, two chapels, south porch and an embattled deuce of Capt. Vincent Stuckey J.P., D.L. The acreage is

western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 5 bells: 171; rateable value, £2,541; the population in x88I was

the east window contains ancient glass, representing figures of 8g6.

various saints : the west window is a memorial to the late
Waiter Bagehot esq.M.A. the eminent economist,who was born Parish Clerk, Charles Paul.

Official Establishments, Local Institutions &c.

PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- is only one delivery, commencing at 7 a. m.; & letters can
be had at the window from 7 until xo a.m. only
Alfred Challis, postmaster.

DISPATCH OF LETTERS. Money order office, open from 9 a. m. until 6 p.m. except on
London &c. 9.30 a.m.; Somerton &CurryRivel, 3.20 p.m.; saturday, when it is open until 8 p.m

Bridgwater, Bristol, Wales, North of England, Scotland, Telegraph office open, week .days at 8 a. m. ; closes at 8 p.m.;
Ireland, 4 p.m.; Yeovil, Dorsetshire, Hampshire, Surrey,
Sussex, 5.20 p.m.; London, all parts of the United King- sunday 8 a.m. ; closes at xo a.m
dom, Foreign Countries, 7.20 p.m
WALL Box cleared, week days only, 9.15 a.m. 3, 4.30 & 6

p.m
TowN TRUST.

DELIVERY. CO-OPTATIVE TRUSTEES.

London, all parts of the United Kingdon, Foreign Countries, Stuckey Capt. Vincent D.L., J.P. chairman

by letter carriers & to callers, 7 a. m. ; Bridgwater,Bristol, Louch John esq. vice-chairman
North of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Yeovil, Dor- Trevilian Edwin Cely esq. J.P
setshire &c. by letter carriers & to callers, 9 a.m. ; Lon- BlakP James Dyer esq

don, all parts of the United Kingdon, Foreign Parts, by Meade Francis esq

letter carriers & to callers, 3.30 p.m. On sundays there Rowe William esq

266 LANGPORT. SOMERSETSHIRE,

ELECTED TRUSTEES. Clerk to the Guardians & Aisessment Committee, John

Ainslie Rev. A. C. M.A., LL.D Louch, Langport

Bennett Waiter E Treasurer, William Bond Paul

Gough William Relieving Officers, 1st district, A. W. Willy, Kingsbury

Kelway James Episcopi; 2nd district, H. Davies, Somerton

Knight James Towell Vaccination Officers, Edwin Willy, Kingsbury Episcopi;

Louch Edward Qnekett Hitchins Davies, Somerton

Clerk, William John Carne Hill Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, No. I A district,

Meetings are held quarterly at the Town hall. Thomas George Brooke, Langport ; No. I B district,

INSURANCE AGENTS : - Joseph Dixon Adams M.D. Martock; No. 2 A & B districts,

Atlas !<'ire & Life, W. J. C. Hill, The Hill Edmund William Valentine, Somerton; Nos. 3 A & B

County }<'ire, W. H. Smith, The Hill districts, John Hughes L.R.C.P.Edin. Curry Rivel; No. 3

Economic Life, J. Seward, The Hill C district, Charles Munden, Ilminster

Imperial Fire & Life, J. Seward, The Hill Superintendent Registrar, Edward Quekett Louch, Lang-

Liverpool & London & Globe, J. T. Knight, Bow street port; deputy, William Hy. Smith, The Hill, Langport
Registrars of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Curry Rivel sub-
Norwich Union Fire, W. J. C. Hill, The Hill
district, John Hughes, Curry Rivel; deputy, Benjamin
Phcenix Fire, W. Rowe, North street James Titford,Curry Rivel; Langport sub-district,Thomas
Provident Life, W. H. Smith, The Hill
George Brooke, Cheapside, Langport; deputy. James P.
Royal Exchange, W. J. Burston
Johnstone, Cheapside, Langport; Somerton sub-district,
Royal Farmers', F. Meade & Co H. Davies, Somerton; deputy, Jesse Williams, Somerton
Workhouse, High Ham, a building of stone, built in 1842, to
Standard Life, J. D. Blake, Bow street

Sun }<'ire, W. E. lJennett, North street
West of England }<'ire & Life, W. Gough, Stuckey's Bank; hold 300 inmates; Charles Flack, master; Rev. J. Stubbs,
chaplain; John Morgan L.R.C.P.LOnd. medical officer;
& J. Louch Mrs. Elizabeth Flack, matron
PuBLIC EsTABLISHMENTS:-
RuRAL SANITARY AuTHORITY.
Cemetery, W. H. Smith, clerk to the burial board
County Court, Guildhall, His Honor William Paterson, Meetings are held at the Board room of the Workhouse last
judge ; John Louch, registrar & high bailiff ; official re- tuesday in each month after the meeting of the guardians.

ceiver in bankruptcy, F. Aston Dawes, Salisbury; John Clerk, John Louch, North street, Langport

Knowles, bailiff. A court is held once a month ; the follow- Treasurer, William Bond Paul

ing places are within its jurisdiction :-Barrington, Beer Medical Officer of Health, Jn.Morgan L.R.C.P.Lond.Langport

Crocombe, Curry Mallett, Curry Rivel, Drayton, Earns- Inspector of Nuisances, 'f. Hurford, Curry Rivel

hill, Fivehead, Huish Episcopi, Isle Abbotts, Isle Brewers, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE COMMITTEE.

Kingsbury Episcopi, Langport, Muchelney, Puckington, Clerk, John Louch, Langport
Swell, Aller, Babcary, Barton St. David, Charlton Attendance Officers, H. Davies, Somerton & A.. W. Willy,
Mackrell, Compton Dundon, High Ham, Keinton Mande- Kingsbury Episcopi
ville, Kingsdon, Kingweston, Long Sutton, Pitney, Somer- PUBLIC OFFICERS : -
ton, Stoke St. Gregory, Long Load
Certified Bailiffs appointed under the Law of Distress Assistant Overseer & Collector of Poor Rates, Edwin M.
Gillett, North street
Amendment Act, James T. Knight, Bow street & John Certifying Factory Surgeon, Thos. Geo. Brooke, Cheapside
Knowles, Bow street Clerk to the Burial Board, William Henry Smith, The Hill
Fire Brigade Engine Station, Bow st. John Knowles, supt Clerk to the Langport Highway District Board & to the
Guildhall, Cheapside, John Knowles, keeper Langport & Aller Moor District Drainage Boards,Jn.Louch
Temperance House, Bow street, Albert Gaylard, manager Sub-Distributor of Stamps, Waiter Edward Bennett
Town Hall, Cheapside, John Knowles, keeper Town Crier, John Knowles, Bow street
VOLUNTEERS:- SCHOOLS:-
West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry (G troop), R. T.
Combe, capt. ; Sergt.-Maj. Wm.MacNamara,drill instrctr Free Grammar, founded by Thomas Gillett, in 1675,
Prince Albert's Somersetshire Light Infantry (2nd Volun- for all boys living in the town : the income is about
teer Battalion) (H Co.); armoury, Bow street, Capt. £6o yearly & house ; attached to the school are three
Charles Bagehot Foley ; W. Banyard, drill instructor scholarships of 5 guineas each, tenable at the school for
one year; Edward Western, master

LANGPORT UNION. A School Board of 5 members was formed 12th December,

Board day, alternate tues. at the Board room at 10.30 a.m. 1874, for the United District of Langport & Huish Episcopi,

The Union comprises the following places :-Aller, Babcary, with Curry Rivel as a contributory parish with 2 members;

Barrington, Barton St. David, Beer Crocombe, Charlton John Louch, clerk to the board; H. Davies, attend. officer

Mackrell, Compton Dundon, Curry Mallett, Curry Rivel, Board, erected in 1877, for 100 boys, 100 girls & 130 infants'

Drayton, Earnshill, Fivehead, High Ham, Huish Episcopi, average attendance, 89 boys, 70 girls & 82 infants;

Isle Abbotts, Isle Brewers, Keinton Mandeville, Kingsbury Alfred Reynolds, master ; Mrs. Marian Reynolds, mistress

Episcopi, Kingsdon, Kingweston, Langport, Long Sutton, NEWSPAPER.-Langport & Somerton Herald, North street,

Muchelney, Pitney, Puckington, Somerton, Swell; the Waiter Edward Bennett, proprietor; published sat

population of the union in 1881 was 15,574; rateable Railway Station, Thomas H. Pomeroy, superintendent

value, £94,087 CARRIERS.-Great Western Railway Co. to Somerton, daily

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. 1Atyeo Vincent W. general ironmonger Bragg John, shopkeeper, Bow street

Ainslie Rev. Alexander Colvin M.A., & agent for agricultural implements Brister Edmund, Black Swan P.H.

LL.n. [vicar, & prebendary of Wells], & sewtng machines, Market place North street

Vicarage Baker Wm. baker & confectnr. Bow st Brooke &Johnstone,surgeons,Cheapside

Bagehot Mrs. ·waiter, Herds hill Banyard William, sergeant-instructor Burston & Son, boot & shoe makers,

Blake James Dyer, Bow street H Co. 1st Volunteer Battalion Somer- Cheapside & North street

Bonning Harry Hugh, The Hill setshire Light Infantry Regiment, Calder William, butcher, Bow street

Bradshaw John, Meadowview house The Hill Cattle James, butcher, Bow street

Broadmead James, North street Barling George, Langport Arms family Cemetery (W. H. Smith, clerk to the

Brooke Thomas George, Cheapside & commercial hotel & posting house; burial board)

Ellis John, North street billiards B.T.C.; an omnibus meets Challis Alfred, draper, & post office

Fullaway Joseph, North street every train, Cheapside. See advert Chant Herbert Albert, chemist & drug-

Gough William, Stuckey's Bank Bennett Waiter Edward, stationer, gist, Bow street

Hill William John Carne, Eastdon ho printer & sub-distributor of stamps Chard Thos. Norman, boot ma. Bow st

Johnstone James Pierce, Cheapside ho Blake James Dyer, wine & spirit mer- Churchill Samson, butcher, Bow street

Louch John chant, & agent for Anglo-Bavarian Cooper William Edward, solicitor, com.

Meade Francis, The Hill Brewery Co. Bow street for oaths, Cheapside

Morgan John, North street Blake Robert, boot maker, North street Cornick David, beer retailer & boot

Morris William Charles. Bow street Bowditch Alfred, tailor, Bow street maker, Cheapside

Moulson Rev.Hy. [Conginl.],The Manse Bradford & Sons, timber, slate, corn, Cox Frederick J. jeweller & optician,

Stuckey Capt. Vincent n.L., l.P. Hill ho coal & salt merchants, The Bridge The Hill

Thomas Richard, The Hill Brooke Thomas George, surgeon, & cer- FireBrigade(J ohnKnowles,supt.),Bow st

'frump The Misses, The Hill tifying factory surgeon, medical Gibbs Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), Dolphin

Warren Miss, The Hill officer & public vaccinator, No. x A hotel, Bow s+.reet

Western Edward [master of Grammar district, Langport union, & registrar Gillett Edward John, builder, Bow st

School], The Hill of births, deaths & marriages for the Gillett Edwin Maurice, builder & asst.

COMMERCIAL. Langport sub-district (firm, Brooke overseer & coll.of poorrates,North st

Atyeo Samuel, shopkeeper, North st & Johnstone) Gough William, sec. Stuckey's Bank

DIRECTORY.] S0~1ERSETSHIRE. LAVERTON. 267

Grammar School (Edward Western, Langport & Somerton Herald (Waiter 1Parsons Jas. house decorator, The Hill

master), The Hill Edward Bennett, proprietor; pub- 1Paul Charles, grocer & tailor, North st

Great Western Railway Goods Station lished saturday), North street • Payn Charles Stewart, tailor

&Parcels Office (Thomas H.Pomeroy, Langport & Mid Somerset Benefit Build- Pittard Henry (late Maurice Davis),

manager) ing Soc. (John Seward,sec.),'fhe Hill builder, contractor, plumber & sani-

Guildhall(Jn.Knowles,keepr),Cheapside LenthallJohn,plumber,glazier&c.Bow st tary engineer, Bow st. See advert

Hart Susannah & Matilda (Misses), Library & Reading Room (Wm.Gough, Pomeroy Charlotte (Mrs.),hait' dresser,

dress makers, Bow street hon. sec.), Cheapside Cheapside

Hayman Thomas, ironmonger, Bow st Louch & Son, solicitors; & at Somerton Prince Albert's Somersetshire Light

Hill W. J. & Son, solicitors, The Hill; Louch Edward Quekett (firm, Louch & Infantry 2nd Volunteer Battalion

& at Somerton S.O Son), solicitor & commissioner to (H Co. )(Capt.Charles Bagehot Foley;

Hill John, seedsman, Bow street administer oaths & supt. registrar; W. Banyard, drill instructor)

Hill William John Carne, solicitor (firm, & at Somerton Purchase Hy. tinman & brazier, Bow st

Hill W. J. & Son), clerk to Langport Louch John (firm, Louch & Son), soli- Ralls Minnie(Miss),ladies' school, Bow st

Town Trust; to Burrow Bridge Corn- citor, perpetual commissioner, corn- Rowe Wm.candle ma.&oil mer.North st

missioners; sec. to Langport Gram- missioner to adnrinister oaths, Sahvay Charles, shopkeeper, Bow street

mar School trustees; & agent for the registrar & high bailiff to county Scriven Chas.Wm. blacksmith,North st

Norwich Union & Atlas Fire & Life court, solicitor to the Langport & Shiers William Charles, surveyor to the

& Lancashire & Yorkshire Accident Mid Somerset Benefit Building Soc. Somersetshire drainage board,Bow st

Insurance Companies, The Hill ; & at clerk to the guardians, assessment Smith Gibbs, blacksmith, Bow street

Somerton committee .& rural sanitary au- Smith William Henry, deputy super-

Holbrook Benj.plumber& glazier,Bow st thority, & clerk to the Langport intendent registrar & clerk to the

Hole Harry, coach builder, Foundry highway district board, Langport, burial board, The Hill

Holley Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Bow st Huish & Kingsbury school boards, Somerset Trading Co. coal, salt & tim•

Honeyball l<'rancis Tutton, organist & joint clerk to Langport district & ber merchants, The Bridge

teacher of music, Bow street clerk to Aller Moor drainage boards; Stacey George, saddler, Bow street

Hooper Thomas, dairyman, Bow street & at Somerton Stanbury William, Angel inn, Bow st

Johnstone James P. deputy registrar of Mead Theodore, tailor, Bow street Stone Lizzie & Georgina (Misses),ladies'

births & deaths, Langport sub-dis- Meade Francis & Company, wholesale & school, Bow street

trict, Cheapside retail grocrs.& cheese fctrs.Cheapside Stuckey's Banking Co. head office

Kelway & Son, nurserymen, florists & Mcade Francis & Company,whole-.<mle & (Vincent Stuckey, resident director

seed merchants,Royal nurseries. See retail linen & woollen drapers, general & chairman ; William Gough, sec.),

advertisement facing commencement outfitters, hosiers & hatters, carpet & draw on Robarts & Co. London

of Somerset Court general warehousemen, Cheapside Temperance House (Albert Gaylard,

Knight James Towell, auctioneer, dra- Miles Albert Edwd.watch ma.Cheapside manager), Bow street

per & grocer,& bailiff under the Law Mitchem Daniel, New inn, Station Tucker Jane (Miss), milliner, Bow st

of Distress Amendment Act, Bow st Morgan John L.R.C.P.LOnd. surgeon, TurnerArth.watch ma.& jewellr.Bow st

Knight Samuel Herbert, baker, corn & medical officer of health, Langport Vile Timothy, saddler, Cheapside

flour merchant, Market place rural sanitary authority, North street West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry (G

Knowles John, town crier, & bailiff Norton Henry Charles, grocer & agent Troop) (R. T. Combe, capt. ; Sergt.-

under the Law of Distress Amend- for W. & A. Gilbey, wine & spirit Maj. Wm.McNamara,drill instructor)

ment Act, Bow street merchants, Cheapside & Bow street West Charles, hair dresser, Bow street

Knowsley James, coal dealer, Bow st Ostler Wm. White Lion P.H. N >rth st White Thomas, cooper, North street

Kuhlman Frank Wm. beer rtlr. Bow st Parker William Daniel, plumber, Whitemore George Sansom M.R,c.v.s.

Langport Gas Co. (W. J. Blake, sec) painter & paperhanger, Bow street veterinary surgeon, Bow street

LANGRIDGE is a village and parish, bounded on the 1 Walrond, ob. 1638, and others of this family to 1724: in the

north by the county of Gloucester, 4 miles north-west from sacrarium is a stone inscribed to Penelope Powe, ob. 1615,

Bath railway station, in the Frome division of Bath Forum 1 and monuments to the Gunning family ; in the tower lies

hundred, Weston petty sessional division, Bath union and a recumbent female effigy, probably a member of the Walsh

county court district, Eastern division of the county, Keyns- family: the chancel and rectory house were restored in 1872

ham district of the rural deanery of Bath, archdeaconry of by the late rector, under the direction of C. E. Davis esq.

Bath and diocese of Bath and Wells. 'fhe village lies in a F.s.A. architect, of Bath, and it is now (1889) proposed to

combe or valley bounded by two spurs of high land running effect the restoration of the nave and tower at an estimated

out from the eastern side of Lansdown, and from the point cost of £soo: there are sittings for xoo persons. The

where these unite a fine view is obtained of the adjacent register of baptisms and burials date from the year 1763;

country. The church of St. Mary Magdalene, picturesquely marriages, 1756. 'fhe living is a Tectory, average tithe

situated in the valley, is a very ancient building of stone, rent-charge £92, net yearly value £wo, including 27 acres

chiefly in the Perpendicular style, with some Roman remains, of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Captain George

and consists of modern apsidal chancel, nave, south porch, 'Villiam Blathwayt .J.P., D.L. of Dyrham Park, Cbippenham,

vestry and a saddleback western tower, containing one bell and held since x885 by the Rev. Charles William Shickle

of pre-Reformation date, and bearing the inscription, M.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. There are

so" Resono Michaeli tandem : " the dimensions are somewhat Roman ramains in this parish, and in part of the glebe

singular, the length being feet and the width 18 only: portions of a Roman villa can still be seen. The manor
the south doorway is a good example of the Early Norman house, now called "Court farm," is an interesting structure

period, with nook shafts and bold mouldings : the porch, erected in the 13th and enlarged in the x6th century ; the

which is of later date, has a stoup, wrought from a block of crenellated tower belongs to the earlier period, and near it

stone belonging to some earlier structure, and still retains a is an ancient window. Captain George William Blathwayt

fragment of shafting: the chancel arch, about 7 feet in span, D.L., J.P. of Dyrham Park, Chippenham, Wilts, is lord of

is a beautiful specimen of the Norman style, elliptical in : ihe manor and the principal landowner. The soil is various;

shape, and above it is a carved group of the nth or 12th I the subsoil rocky. The chief crops are wheat and barley,

century found built up into a wall, and perhaps representing but the land is principally in pasture. The area is 656

the Virgin and child: the pulpit is of wood, panelled, the acres; rateable value, £1,023; the population in ~88:r

panelling being affixed to the framework in an unusual was 8o.

manner : the font is Early English : on the floor of the Parish Clerk Henry Barrington ·
chancel is a brass inscription to Robert Wallshe esq. ob. 6th '
May, 1427, and the matrix of an effigy: in the north-east Letters through Bath, the nearest money order & telegraph

angle of the nave is another brass, with effigy, to Elizabeth, office, arrive at Lower Swainswick. WALL LETTER Box

widow of Robert Wallche esq. ob. 24th April, 1441 ; here cleared at 4.30 p.m

are other memorials to Edward Walrond esq. ob. 8th Jan. Parochial School (mixed), erected in 1856, for 30 children;

xfu4; Lawrence Walrond, ob. 24th March, x679; Mary average attendance, 6; Miss Willy, mistress

I IShickleRev.Chas.Wm.M.A.The Rectory Pritchard Isaac, farmer, Court farm Snook Martin, farmer, Manor farm
Mannings Isaac,frmr.Up.Langrdge.frm Sharp John, farmer

LAVERTON is a paiish and village, x mile west from eel, nave, north porch, vestry and a western saddleback

the Frome and Bath road, 4! miles north from Frome tower, containing one bell : the stained east window repre-
station on the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth section of the sents the "Crucifixion," with figures of St. Mary the Virgin
Great Western railway, and 8! south from Bath, in the and St. John the Evangelist: there are sittings for 8o

Frome division of the county, Frome hundred, petty sessional! persons. The register dates from the year 1693. The living
division, union and county court district, rural deanery of is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £r69, gross yearly

Frome, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and value about £270, including 74 acres of glebe, with honse,

Wells. The church of St. Maryis a small building of ston.e, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held since
in the Gothic style of the 13th century, consisting of chan- x888 by the Rev. William Willimott M.A. of Corpus Christi

268 LAVERTON. SOMERSETSHIRE. [KELLY's

college, Cambridge. The manor and land belong to the Letters are received from Bath, via Beckington, at 7.30

Duchy of Cornwall. The soil is light and sandy, and the a. m. W.ALL LETTER Box, near the rectory, cleared at

subsoil is clayey. The land is in pasture for dairy purposes. 7· 15 p.m. week days only. The nearest receiving house

The area is r,ooo acres; rateable value, £r,r68; the popu- is at Beckington, which is a money order & telegraph

lation in 1881 was 123. office

Sexton, Francis Neale. National School (formerly a Baptist chapel), for 50 children ;
average attendance, 30; Miss A. Ayres, mistress

Willimott Rev. William M.A. Rectory Gilling Edward, farmer, Cock Rd.farm Hosier Joseph, carpenter

Bush .Barnard John,farmer,Manor farm Heath Charles, farmer, New farm Smith William, shopkeeper

ElliottJohn,dairy& corn frmr.Peart frm

LEIGH-UPON-MENDIP is a parish and village, 3 sittings for 300 persons. The register dates from 1566.

miles north-east from Cranmore station on the Witham and The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Vobster

Wells branch of the Great Western railway, and 6 east- annexed,~ average tithe rent-charge {;252, in the gift of the

north-east from Shepton Mallet, in the Frome division of the rector of Mells, and held since x86o by the Rev. George

county, hundred of Mells and Leigh, petty sessional division, Augustus Mahon M.A. of Hertford College, Oxford. There

union and county court district of Frome, rural deanery of are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. J'Jhn

:Frome, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Francis Fortescue Horner esq. M.A., D.L., J.P. of Mells

Wells. The parish, situated 884 feet above the level of the Park, is lord of the manor and owns nearly the whole of the

sea, is considered very healthy and is well supplied with parish. The soil is generally light, resting on the limestone,

excellent water from two springs situated in fields ad- and, in portions of the parish, on the clay subsoil. The land

joining the village. The church of St. Giles is an ancient is chiefly in pasture, producing a sweet herbage for dairy

building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of purposes. The acreage is 1,425 ; rateable value, £2,556 ;

chancel, nave of six bays, aisles,south porch and an embattled the population in x88x was 461.

western t.ower, containing a clock and 6 bells : the tower, Parish Clerk, William Ashman.

elaborately decorated, belongs to the period of Henry VII.; it PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Mary Anne Ashman, postmistress.
has a pierced parapet surmounted by 20 pinnacles, and there
are others rising from the buttresses below the parapet: on Letters through Bath arrive at 7·45 a.m. & 6.45 p.m. ;
the north side of the aisle is a priest's doorway: this church dispatched at 7 p.m. on week days. No post on sundays.
was partially restored in 1884, and during the alterations Coleford is the nearest money order & telegraph office

an altar-stone of Purbeck marble was discovered imbedded School (mixed), erected in x863, for 130 children; average

about x8 inches under the floor, and in perfect preservation; attendance, 90; Ueorge Henry Banting, master; Mrs.

it has now been restored to its original purpose: there are Banting, mistress; Miss Florence Banting, assist. mistress

Lee Rev. John Thomas B.A. [curate] Cosh Edwin, Bell inn; spirits, wines, 1 Padfield John, farmer, Whitehole farm

Lewis Mrs beer & cider Rossiter Henry, spade &rake handle ma

Mahon Rev.Geo.Augustus M. A. Vicarage Davis Emma (Mrs.), dairy farmer, Season George Moon, grocer & provi-

Olorenshaw John, Ureat House farm Rookery farm sion dealer

COMMERCIAL. Ellery Thomas, butcher Spear Alfred James, butcher& shoe ma

Abraham Edmd. dairy frmr.Sparks frm Fowler William, farmer, Leach Ham Tibbotts John Chislet, dairy farmer,

AshmanAlfred,spade & rake handle mkr Gishford Mary, farmer, Tudhill farm Tweed farm

Ashman Edith (Mrs.), grocer, provision Harding Thomas Lovell, dairy farmer, Turner Ann (Mrs.), farmer

dealer & tobacconist Manor farm Wilcox John & Son, builders & contrctrs

Ashman Thomas, builder & timber Knapton John & Son, carpenters Wilcox Hugh, builder & contractor

mer. steam sawing & turning mills Lane Elias, shopkeeper Willcox John, dairy farmer, Grove

Button Arthur, draper & grocer Lewis Edwin Abraham, dairy farmer, Shoot farm

Cosh Hy. dairy frmr. Knapp Hill farm Great House farm 1

LEIGHLAND, an ancient chapelry and hamlet in the were formerly worked by the Ebbw Vale Company, but are

parish of Old Cleeve, was formed into an ecclesiastical parish now closed. Joseph Gatchell esq. J.P. of Alcombe House,
April 4th, 1865 : it is 4 miles south from Old Cleeve and 5 Dunster, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The
south-west from Williton station on the West Somerset soil is loamy; subsoil, marl. The chief crops are wheat,

branch of the Great Western railway, and the Comberow beans, barley and turnips. The area is r,786 acres; rateable
and Roadwater stations on the West Somerset Mineral rail- value is included in Old Cleeve; the population in 188:r
way are within the hamlet, and it is in the Western division was 532.
of the county and petty sessional division of Williton, RoADWATER, a hamlet of Old Cleeve, is partly in this
Wiveliscombe district of the rural deanery of Taunton, parish: it is one mile north, and has a station on the West
archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of .Bath and Wells. Somerset Mineral railway. Here is a Bible Christian chapel.
The church of St. Giles, formerly a chapel appurtenant to CoMBEROW is a hamlet one mile south, and has also a
the Abbey of Cleeve, was rebuilt in x862, at a cost of £1,200, station on the West Somerset Mineral railway.
and is a building of stone, in the Early English style, con- Letters through Washford R.S.O. about 8.30 a. m. Wash-
sisting of chancel, nM·e, south porch and a bell-cot contain- ford is the nearest money order &telegraph office. PILLAR

ing one bell : the stained east window was erected by public LETTER Box on Brendon hill cleared at 3· so p. m. on week

subscription in r889: there are sittings for 250 persons. days
The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £2.5, National School (mixed), for 100 children; average atte'n-
gross yearly value £84, with house, in the gift of the rector dance, 8o ; Edward Bradfield, master
of Old Cleeve, and held since x887 by the Rev. James ·RAILWAY STATIONS:-
Bridger Philby B. A., s.c. L. of Lincoln College, Oxford. The Road water, William Gunningham, station master
iron mines on Brendon hill are partly in this parish, and Comberow, John Taylor, station master

Philby Rev. James Bridger B.A., s.c.L. Callaway Thomas, shoe maker & shop- Hole James, carpenter, Chidgley [Let-

Vicarage keeper, Roadwater ters through Nettlecombe]

COMMERCIAL. Coles Henry Poole, farmer Hole John, blacksmith, Sticklepath

BakerJn.coal & manure mer.Brendon hl Cording Harry, miller (water), corn, Howse John, farmer, Stamborough ho

Beamer Jane Stevens (Mrs.), Valiant seed & manure merchant, Vale mills, Huxtable William, carpenter

Soldier P.H. Roadwater Roadwater Jewell Ann (Mrs.), farmer, ComberO\f"

Brewer George, farmer, Chidgley [Let- Court Wm. shoe ma.& coal mer.Roadwtr Larcombe Mary (Mrs.), !!hopkeeper

ters through Nettlecombe] Davis Waiter, shopkeeper, Brendon hill Oatway William, farmer, Leigh .Barton

Brewer Wm. Hy. farmer, Glasses farm Eames Wm. Geo. shopkeeper,Roadwatr Philp11 Francis, shopkeeper, Roadwater

Case Joshua J. farmer, Timwood EdbrookeNthnl. blacksmith,Roadwater Williams Frank, saddler, Roadwater

LILSTOCK, see KIL'roN.

LIMINGTON is a parish and village, situated on the knight in camail and cyclas, and bearing a shield on which

river Yeo, 6 miles north from Yeovil, where is the nearest appears a bend between six escallops; this figure is sup-
railway station, and I east from Ilchester, in the Southern posed to represent the founder, Sir Richard Gyverney, and
division of the county, Stone hundred, Yeovil petty sessional at the foot is a smaller effigy of a female, clad in a wimpole.
division, union and county court district, rural deanery of and a flowing robe ; underneath the arch by which this
Ilchester, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and chapel opens to the nave is an altar tomb with recumbent
Wells. The church of the Virgin Mary is a building of stone, effigies of a man, cross-legged and bare-headed, wearing a
in the Early Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting cyclas and mantle and girt with a broad-sword, and of a.
of chancel, nave, north aisle or chapel, south porch and an lady attired in a long flowing robe ; these are conjectured
embattled western tower with a plain parapet, and contain- to represent Sir Gilbert Gyverney and Mabel his wife, the
ing 4 bells, and porch : in the chapel, founded as a chantry parents of Sir Richard : in the chancel are two ancient pews.
in 1329 by Sir Richard Gyverney, and dedicated to St. probably once forming part of a screen, and containing in.
Leonard, is a recess containing the effigy of a cross-legged the panels shields of arms with the roses of York and

.JDIRECTORY SOl\'IERSETSHIRE. LITTO:Y. 269

Lancaster; one of these shields exhibits the arms of William first held by Cardinal Wolsey, who was instituted to it 1oth
.Bonville, Lord Harington, who was lord of the manor in the October, 1soo, at the age of 29, on the presentation of the
1sth century; he married Catherine (Nevill) and was killed Marquess of Dorset. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel,
at Wakefield, December 31st, q6o: in the chapel are mural erected in 1861. The old manor house, rebuilt in 1672 by
tablets to the Beaton family, 1704-31, and to the families of James Tazewell esq. was pulled down about 1834, and a new
Gould and Bumard, 1741-7: in the nave is a flat stone, house erected by G. T. Williams; a stone from the old
incised with arms and inscription to Barbara (Pinny), wife
of Stephen Tazewell, ob. 18th June, 1706; the latter was •r.front with the name of James Taswell was formerly in the
third son of James Tazewell esq. sometime lord of this
manor: the font, dating from the early part of the r6th possession of the late Professor P. Taswell-Langmead
~entury, has an octagonal basin, the sides of which are B.c. L., M.A. of the Inner Temple. John Kenelm Digby
panelled and filled with quatrefoil3 and shields; the pedestal Wingtield-Digby lll.P., J.P. of 3 Westover villas, Bourne-
and base are also panelled: the five chancel windows are mouth, who is lord of the manor, and Captain Edwal"d
chiefly memorials to friends and relations of a former rector, Sydenham Markland, of Handley, Dol"set, are the principal
the Rev. T. Brancker: at the north-east end of the nave is a landowners. The soil is- loamy, and the subsoil is clay.
-coffin lid bearing a fine floriated cross: the chancel was The chief crops are wheat, beans, barley and oats, but the
rebuilt in 1870, and the church in 1882, under the direction land is principally in pasture. The area is 1,002 acres;
<Jf Mr. T. Gordon, architect; a new organ was erected in rateable value, £2,884; the population in 1881 was 296.
1887: there are sittings for 130 persons. The registers date
from the year 1689, but are imperfectly kept for many years. DRAYCOTT is a tithing, 1! miles south-east from the parish
The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-chal"ge £344, net
yearly value £281, including 8 acres of glebe, with resi- church.
-dence, in the gift of Wadham College, Oxford, and held Parish Clerk, David Smith.
-since 1886 by the Rev. Douglas Belcher Binney M.A. of that
-college. This living acquires a peculiar interest as being the PosT OFFICE. - George Pitt, sub-postmaster. Letters
through Taunton arrive at 7.35 a.m.; dispatched, s.2o
p.m.; sundays, 9· 30 a. m. llchester is the nearest money
order & telegraph office

National School (mixed), erected in 1834, for so children;

average attendance, 31 ; Miss C0lborne, mistress

llinneyRev.DouglasBelcher M.A.Rectory Cox Benj. Hurman, farmer, Manor frm Pitt George, shopkeeper, Post office
Rawlins Wm.J<'rancis,Limington grange Cox Thomas H. farmer, Draycott farm Rapson George, farmer
Witcomb Pbilip Field George, blacksmith Rapson Samuel, baker
Witcomb William Gard Emily (Mrs.), farmer Smith David, cal"penter & assist. oversr
Knight Richard, Lamb & Lark P.H Witcomb Brothers, brewers& maltsters,
COMMERCIAL. Martin Charles, thatcher
Barnes George & John, farmers Limington brewery. See advert
Brake Samuel Young, farmer

HIGH LITTLETON (with the hamlet ofHALLATROW, well Hall is the residence or Lieut.-Col. Barton Land John

at which there is a station ou the North Somerset branch of Scobell B.A., J.P. The principal landowners are Lieut.-Col.

1t.he Great Western railway and whence there is a short ScobellR.A., J.P. Richard VowellSberring esq. Mrs. Eustiche

branch to Camerton) is a small parish, on the road from Scobell and Mrs. Mogg. The soil is part clayey and very

Bath to Wells, 10 miles south-west from the former place and rich, and yields abundantly of the usual crops ; the subsoil

10 north-east from the latter, in the Northern division of the Iis clay and stone. The acreage is 1,273; rateable value,

county, hundred of Cbewton, union of Glutton, petty ses- £3,693; the population in 1881 was 77S·

.sional division and county court district of Temple Cloud, PosT OFFICE, High Littleton.-Geol"ge Blinman, receiver.

r?uiorcaelsdee?afn~earyth of Chew Magna, archdeaconry of Bath and Letters arrive from Hallatrow at 8 30 a m · dispatched
and Wel!s. The church of the !foly Trinity
1s a. b';'1ldmg of stone m the Early Perpend1~ular style, at 9. 1s a. m. & 6. 2s p.m · · ·'

eons•stmg of chancel, nave of four b~ys, .aisles, north PosT OFFICE, Hallatrow.-William Brooks, receiver. Let-
porch. ~nd an emba~tled western tower With pmnacles, and
ters arrive sf.r2o0mp .Bmr i. s t oSl uantd3a.y1s5, a.m. & 12.s7 p.m. ; dis-
patched at arrive at 8.58 a.m. ; dis-

.contammg 3 bells: m the chan?el are monuments of the patched at 8. 40 p.m. The nearest money order & tele-
ISth cent~ry ~o the Hodges fam1~y : the naye and ch~ncel graph office is at Paulton for both places. Postal orders

11vere rebmlt m 1739, the south aisle added m 1824 ana the are issued here but not paid

north aisle in 1842, by which 280 additional seats were ob- ' ..
tained, I8o of which are free and unappropriated for ever, lNSURAN?E .AGENT.-West of England Fire & Life, T .

.and in I88s-8 the church was restored and partly rebuilt, Melhmsh

.at a cost of [3,000. The register dates from 16s8, but is I SCHOOLS:-

'Very imperfect. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value National (mixed), built in r843 by the parishioners, for 100

j,12o, with residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since children; average attend. So; John Colston Meredith,mast

1866 by the Re\·. Edmund Crane Streeten M.A. of Queen·s Infant, for So children; average attendance, 6o; Mrs.Emma

College, Oxford. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Metho- .Ann Meredith, mistress

dist chapels. The charities amount to [15 yearly, which Railway Station, Hallatrow, Henry Jefferies, station master

~urn is distributed in blankets to the poor of the parish. King- , CARRIERS TO BATH.-William Edwin & Henry Pike, daily

High Littleton. Brimble Caroline (:\'Irs. ), beer retailer Spencer James, High Littleton inn

Good Charles, High Littleton house Cantle George, painter Hallatrow.
·Scobell Lieut.-Col. Barlon Land John Cleaves George, butcher
Cowen George, accountant Hutchinson Cecil, Hallatrow court
R.A., J.P. Km. gwell ha11 ScobellMrs. Mount Vale house
Cox James, farmer, Rosewell farm Sherring Richard Vowel!, Hall*ow crt
StreetenRev.Edmd.CraneM.A.Vicarage Cross Frederick, grocer Brooks l\-'illiam, shoe maker, Post office
.Streeten Rev.Henry Harkness B.A. [ass. Dands Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Doman Charles, farmer
Heal Moses, cal"penter Free Thomas & Sons, quarry owners,
sec. Church Miss. Soc. for Somerset & Hunt .Alfred, farmer, Redhouse farm
Wilts] Melhuish Thomas, auctioneer & regis- Pennant Stone quarries, Cloud hill
Hallett Henry, Hallatrow inn
COMMERCIAL. trar of births & deaths No. 3 Glutton Harrison John, butcher
sub-district, Glutton union Weeks Francis, farmer
'Banfield Samuel, beer retailer Pow Charles, farmer, Rugbourne farm
Blanning Thomas, butter factor Priddy George, shopkeeper & beer retlr
Blinmau Geol"ge, shopkeeper, Post office
Body Samuel Jas. farmer, Church farm

:LITTON is a parish and a small village, lying in a valley, yearly value £2so, including glebe, with residence, in the

3 miles north-north-west from .Binegar station on the Bath gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held since 1883

..extension of the Somerset and Dorset railway, IS south from by the Rev. George Frederic Cooke M.A. of New College,

.Bristol, 16 south-west from Bath and 6l north-east from Oxford. The charities amount to £5 yearly. .A great

Wells, in the Northern division of the county, \Veils Forum portion of the land belongs to the hospital of St. Cross

·hundred, Glutton union and Temple Cloud petty sessional di- at Winchester, and Mrs. Lowth is also a chief landowner.

vision and county court district, Midsomer N orlon district of The land is loamy, with a subsoil of limestone and is chiefly

·the rural deanery of Frome, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese devoted to hay and pasturage. The area is I,171 acres;

·•f Bath and Wells. The church of ~t. Peter is a building of ratable value, £3,499; the population iu 1881 was 217.

stone in the Perpendicular style, erected in 14Bs, and con- GREENDOWN, I mile west, SHEBBORN, half a mile north-
sisting of chancel, nave, with arcades of four arches on the west, Fo:r:.n and LILLICOMBE, r south-west, are hamlets.
south side and three on the north, aislt>.s, south porch and an

embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 5 bells : Lettel"s are received from Bath through Chewton Mendip,

there is a piscina on the south side of the chancel, and a font via Emborough. Chewton Mendip is the nearest post &

Iof the Decorated period with au octagonal basin: the church money order office. East Harptree is the nearest tele-

will seat 200 persons. The register dates from 1S84. The graph office. WALL Box cleared at 6.30 p.m. ; sundays,
living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £138, gross 10.30 a.m

270 LllTON. SOMERSETSHIRE.

National School (mixed), originally erected as a Baptist CARRIERSTO:-

chapel in 1859; it will hold 70 children; average atten- BATH-James Tucker, tues. & fri

dance, 30 ; Miss Ellen Edwards, mistress BRISTOL-Henry Middle, fri

.Banwell Mrs. Sherborn Dal1imore William, farmer, Greendown Pearce Rd. King's Arms P.H. & farmer

Cooke Rev. George Fredc. M. A. Rectorv Edwards Zephaniah, mason Pearce Stephen, farmer, Spring farm

Rendall Richd. Lillycombe, Greendown Flower Henry, farmer Porter Thomas, farmer, Longroof, Ford

Sage Miss Harris Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper Sage George, farmer, Manor farm
Speed George
Horler William, butcher & farmer Sherborn John, Bell inn, Greendown
COMMERCIAL.
Baby Joseph, farmer Middle Mark, dairyman Tucker James, farmer
Banwell John, farmer, Ford farm
Payne Caroline (Mrs. ),frmr.Greendown Watts Benj. dairy frmr. Greendown cot

Payne Eli, dairyman, Greendown Wickham William, farmer

Banwell Matilda (Mrs.), farmer, Ford Payne William, carpenter Young David, dairy farmer
Young William, farmer
Brown William, shopkeeper Pearce Henry, dairyman, Ford

LOCKING is a parish 3 miles south-east from Weston- cious painting; the font, a singular and highly interesting

super-Mare and 1! south from Worle station on the Bristol work of the Transition period, consists of an oblong trough

and Exeter section of the main line of Great Western railway, or basin, supported on a massive central shaft and smaller
in the Wells division of the county, Winterstoke hundred, shafts at the angles; at each corner of the basin is the figure,
Axbridge petty sessional division and union, Weston-super- in high relief, of a knight in full armour, each extending
Mare county court district, Locking district of the rural his arms along the sides of the basin; above and below, on

deanery of .Axbridge, arcbdeaconry of Wells and diocese of three sides, are interlaced serpents and various other orna-

Bath and Wells. The church of St. Augustine, rebuilt with ments : there are sittings for 140 persons : the church was
the exception of the tower, is an edifice in the Decorated and entirely restored and reseated in 1863. The register dates
Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, from the year 1600. The living is a vicarage, average tithe
north porch and western tower with pierced trefoiled para- rent-charge £143, net yearly value £245, including 25 acres
pet, crocketed pinnacles and an octagonal embattled stair of glebe, with house, in the gift of S. J. Sayee esq. and held
turret, carrying a spirelet and vane at the south-east angle; since 1887 by the Rev. .Arthur Birch Sayee M. A. of Queen's
the tower contains 4 bells, the belfry stage being lighted by College, Oxford. The Merchant Venturers of Bristol are lords
coupled traceried windows,separated and flanked by crocketed of the manor and principal landowners. The soil is clayey
pinnacles: at the east gable of the nave is an elegant open and the land is in pasture. The acreage is 1,o1oA. 2R. lP. ;
bell cote, with an ogee arch and enriched finial : the east rateable value, £2,246; the population in 1881 was 122.

and two windows on the south side of the chancel are stained, Parish Clerk, John Cavill.
and there are memorial windows in the nave to the Rt. Rev.
George Henry Law n.n. bishop of Chester (1812-24) and of Sexton, George Grimstead.

Bath and Wells 1824 ; he died 22 Sept. 1845: to Lady PosT OFFICE.-William Starks, receiver. Letters from

Henrietta Charlotte (Grey), wife of the Rev. J. T. Law, who Weston-super-Mare arrive at 4·45 a. m. ; delivered at 7
diedinMarch,I866;totheRev.GeorgeHenryLawM.A.for- a.m.; dispatched at 9.13 p.m. Banwell is the nearest
merly vicar of this parish, died 1875, and to Mr3. Reynolds : money order & telegraph office
the stone pulpit, a fine work, is adorned with canopies and Parochial School (mixed), erected in 1858, for so children;
is exquisitely carved, but has been much injured by injudi- average attendance, 20 ; Miss Caroline Knibbs, mistress'

Chaplin Mrs Davis Joseph, farmer, Lockinghead frm Messenger Isa.ac, shoe maker

Gimingham Miss, Manor house Day Robert, farmer, Locking farm Starks William, post receiver

Sayee Rev. Arthur Birch M. A. Vigarage Demack Ann (Mrs. ),frmr.West End fm Stagg Robert, farmer, Church farm

Barrett Isaac, farmer Parsons George, farmer, Manor farm Wild John, farmer, Elm Tree farm •

LONG LOAD is a tithing and ecclesiastical parish formed 1value £250, in the gift of the Vicar of Martock, and held

Aug. 23, 1867, from the civil parish of Martock and situ- since 1872 by the Rev. John Rowe M.A. of Trinity College,
ated on the roarl from Yeovil to Langport, 2 miles north Cambridge. There is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1885.
from Martock station on the Yeovil branch of the Great The principal landowners are the Warden and Fellows of
Western railway and 9 north-west from Yeovil, in the South- St. Mary's College, Winchester, and H.R.H. the Duke of
ern division of the county, Martock hundred, Yeovil petty Cornwall. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay. The chief
sessional division and union, Langport county court district, crops are beans and wheat. The area is 1,390 acres ; rate-
rural deanery ofllchester, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese able value included in Martock ; the population in 1881
of Bath and Wells. Christ Church, built in 1855, on the was 336.

site of an older structure, is an edifice of stone, in the Early Parish Clerk J. Dimmick.
F.nglish style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and '
a turret containing one bell: the name of the church is PosT OFFICE.-Charles Herbert Satherley, sub-postmaster.

said to have been changed from that of St. Mary Magdalen Letters through Langport R.S.O. arrive at 9 a.m. ; dis-

at the time it was rebuilt, a former name of the chapelry patched at 4·45 p.m. Nearest money order & telegraph

having been Load St. Mary : " The Chapel!" is mentioned office is at Martock, 3 miles distant. Postal orders are

in a chantry certificate of the date of Edward VI.: there issued here, but not paid

are sittings for 250 persons. The register dates from the year Church of England School (mixed), built in 186o, for So
1731. The living is a vicarage, with some glebe and an children ; average attendance, 41; Mrs. Eliza Williams.
augmentation from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, yearly mistress

Rowe ~v. John M.A. [vicar] Dyer Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer SatherleyChas. Herbt.shpkpr. Post office
Williams Miss Dyer Simeon, farmer Scriven Frederick, blacksmith
Dyer William, horse breaker Tucker George, farmer
COMMERCIAL. Gillett William, farmer & landowner Williams Edwin Jesse, foreman & ex-
Ketley Charles William, shopkeeper
Benton Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer Laver William, farmer penditor Langport Dist. drainage brd
Dudridge George, farmer Williams Jacob, hay dealer
Dyer Betsey (Mrs.), Crown P.H Perren Thomas & William, farmers Yard John, farmer
Dyer Edmund, road contractor
Sampson Joseph, pig dealer I

LOPEN is a parish and compact village, situated on the harriers meet here twice a week in the season. Earl Poulett

road from Crewkerne to Taunton, 2 miles south-south-west is lord of the manor, and Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Mary Ann

from South Petherton, 5 east from Ilminster station on the Denman are the chief landowners. The soil is light sandy

Chard branch of the Great Western railway and 4 north- loam ; subsoil, clay. The crops are wheat, barley, beans and

west from Crewkerne, in the Southern division of the county, peas. The area is 479 acres; rateable value, £2,026; the

hundred of South Petherton, union of Chard, Crewkerne population in 1881 was 353.

petty sessional division and county court district, rural
deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese Parish Clerk, Charles Hill.

of Bath andWells. The church of All Saints is an ancient edifice Letters through Ilminster arrive at 7.30 a. m. WALL LETTER
of stone, consisting of chancel, nave,transept, south porch and Box cleared 6.20 p.m. week days only. South Petherton
a turret containing 2 bells : the church was enlarged in 1834, is the nearest money order & telegraph office
and has sittings for 120 persons. The register dates from
A School Board of 5 members was formed March 1st, 1876;
the year 1693. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £75, A. Millard, South Petherton, clerk to the board; John

in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol, and held since
1871 by the Rev. Robert Phelps Billing Ph.n. Giessen Uni- Vagg, South Petherton, attendance officer

versity, Germany, who is also vicar of Kingstone. Earl Board School (mixed), built in 1878 at a cost of £7_8o, for

Poulett is impropriator of the tithes. :Flax spinning and 120 children; average attendance, 53; :Mrs. Elizabeth

!!ail-cloth making are carried on here. The Servington Emma Norton, mistress

JDIRECTORY. SO.MERSETSHIRE. LUCCOMBE. _'J",'Yl

Billing Rev. Robert Phelps Ph.n.[vicar], Edmonds George, shoe maker Pitcher John, farmer
Pitcher John, jun. farmer-
The Cross tree Edmonds Robert, shopkeeper
Pitcher William, farmer
Denman Edward, Napp cottage Fowler Thomas, tailor Rock Frederick, huntsman to Serving-

Sutton Richard Goodland Benjamin, yeoman ton harriers
Rock Georgina (Mrs.),baker & shopkpr
COMMERCIAL. Gould & Co. rope & twine makers Smith Isaac, shopkeeper
Grundry James, farmer Sutton Bros. flax spinners & sail cloth

Carter Job, beer retailer Hillard .Eli, blacksmith manufacturers, Lopen mill.s
Thomas Frank, Poulett Arms P.H
Cridge Edwin, farmer & landowner Lang Isaac, joiner Wakeley Charles, farmer

Cridge William, farmer Lock Benjamin Jones, farmer Young Frederick, blacksmith

Denman Albert Benj. Jones, yeoman Masters Edward, carpenter

Druce John, boot maker Masters James, farmer

Durnell Charles, farmer Masters Joseph, Crown P.H

LOVINGTON is a parish and village, bounded on the Wheathill. The great tithes belong to the Dean and Chapter

south by the river Carey, 3i miles west-south-west from of Wells, Waiter Leach esq. of Martock, and Stuckey's Bank•

Castle Cary, 3 north from Sparkford station on the Great ing Company, being the lessees. Here is a Wesleyan chapel.
Western railway, and 10 west-by-north from Wincanton, in A charity, amounting to 12s. is distributed at Christmas
the Eastern division of the county, Eastern aivision of the amongst the second poor. James Tidcombe esq. is lord of the

hundred of Catsash, Wincanton petty sessional division, manor and Theodore Thring esq. D.L., J.P. is the chief
union and county court district, rural deanery of Cary, arch· landowner. The soil is sandy loam, and the subsoil, clay.

deaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The The chief crops are wheat, beans and oats. The area is

church of St. Thomas aBecket is an ancient edifice of stone, in 822 acres; rateable valut>o, £ I 1399; the population in r88x

the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of three was 203.

bays, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western Parish Clerk, James Corry.

tower containing 3 bells: a stained window in the chancel Letters from Castle Cary S.O. arrive by messenger at 8.30
was presented by the Rev. Joseph John Stanton lii.A. late
vicar of the parish, as a memorial to his mother: the church a.m. WALL LETTER Box cleared at 5·4° p.m. week days
was restored in 186r, when the aisle was added, and in r887 only. Castle Cary is the nearest money order & telegraph

a portion of the chancel was repaved at the cost of the pre- office
sent vical": there are sittings for roo persons. The register National School (mixed), for the united districts of Alford,.
dates from the year 1003. The living is a vicarage, net
Hornblotton & Wheathill, erected in 1840, for 70 children;
yearly value £6o, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and average attendance, 45; &; endowed with an annual rental
of £ro, for the free education of poor children of the
Chapter of Wells, and held since 1873 by the Rev. Alexander parish; Miss Emily Frayling, mistress

Greet B.A. of Clare College, Cambridge, who is also rector of

Farthing Mrs Corry James, shoe maker · Oram Jn.dairy & corn frmr.Charityfrm
Greet Rev. Alexander B.A. VicaTage
Garland John, carpenter & builder Penny Rowland, miller (water)
COlllliiERCIAL.
HoddinottRd.dairy &corn frmr.Brue fm Perry Richard, dairy farmer, Old
Barrett William Edwin, blacksmith
Collins Thomas, mason Martin William,dairy farmer, Mill close Rectory farm
Cooper William, grocer & baker
Meech William Henry Perry William Henry, dairy

Mogg William, dairy ThornHy.dairy frmr.&butchr.Manorfm

Osborne George, baker Travers Robert, grocel" & draper

LOXTON is a parish and village, situated on the river 1of St. John's College, Cambridge. Erasmus Galton D.L.,

Axe, 7 miles south-east from Weston-super-Mare station of J".P. who is lord of the manor, and the Ecclesiastical Com-

a branch of the Great Western railway, in the Wells division missioners, are the principal landowners. The soil is loam

of the county, Winterstokehundred, Axbridgepetty sessional and clay; the subsoil is clay. The land is principally in

division, union and county court district, Axbridge district pasture. The area is 1,203 acres; rateable value, £2,6I6;

of the rural deanery and archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese the population in 1881 was 134.

of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Andrew is a small Sexton, Samuel Palmer.
by messenger from Axbridge R. s. 0. arrive at 9
building of stone, in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave Letters
aEndl~hlodw tower o!'- _the sboultlh sihde,l of Normanfanhd Early a.m. WALL LETTER Box cleared at 6.15 p.m. week days
ng ts ate, contammg 3 e s : t e ower stage o t e tower only. Banwell is the nearest money order & tel(\,<TJ"aph
forms a porch, and has a small hagioscope : the pulpit has office

been hewn from a single block of stone, and is carved : there A School Board of~ members was formed ~arch 26, 1875,
itshissopmeeriooldd:gtlhasesreofarthees1it4ttihngcsenfoturc6yo', and the font is also of for Loxton & ChrJSton; E. F. Wade, Axbrtdge, clerk to the
persons. The register

dates from the year 1558. The living is a rectory, yearly board & attendance officer

value £330, with residence, in the gtft of H. F. Tiarks esq. I Board School (mixed), erected in 1879, for so children;
and held since 1873 by the Rev. John Gerhard Tiarks :u.A. ! average attendance, 29; Miss Curry, mistress

Galton Erasmus n.L., J.P. Loxton house French John, shopkeeper Ponsford James, registrar of births &
deaths for Axbridge sub-district
Tiarks Rev. John Gerhard M.A. Rectory Ham William, farmer
Pllllen Frederick, blacksmith
Tiarks Henry F. Loxton lodge Merry Charles, carpenter Tilley William, farmer
Tutton Clement, farmer
Coombes George, shoe maker Padfield James Haines, farmer

Dibble Henry, farmer Palmer Samuel, farmer

LUCCOMBE (or LuCKHAM) is a parish and village, distribution in money. Hole's charity of £13 8s. 6d. ~arly
situated about a mile from the high road from Minehead to is for blankets for Doverhay only ; Tamlyn's charity of

Porlock, 12 miles west from Williton, 4 south-west from £1 ros. 1od. yearly, is for educational purposes in Doverhay.

Minehead station on the West Somerset branch of the Great Iron ore mines formerly worked in this parish by the Luc-

Western railway and 2 south-east from Porlock, in the combe Iron Ore Company have been abandoned. Cloutsham

Western division of the county, hundred of Carhampton, farm, delightfully situated on the hill'! in this parish, in the

Dunster petty sessional division ; unign and county court occupation of Sir T. D. Acland hart. abounds with rerl deer,

district of Williton, rural deanery of Dunster, archdeaconry and is usually the first meet of the season of the Devon and

of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. A small stream, Somerset stag hounds. The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Dyke

which rises on Dunkerry Hill, passes through the village, Acland hart. P.c., D.L., .J.P. of Killerton, Exeter, who is lord

and after joining another, called the Horner, at the hamlet of the manor, and Mrs. Worth are the chief landowners.

of Bossington, falls into the sea. The Horner arises from The soil is loamy, and subsoil sandstone. The crops are

several springs on Dunkerry and from others on Exmoor wheat, barley, turnips and oats. The area is 4, 106 acres

and courses through a deep valley until it reaches the hamlet of land; rateable value, £2,683; the population in r88r

of Homer and thence to Bossington ; these streams, in was 371.
which are plenty of trout, in summer appear like small
rivulets, but in winter occasionally become wild mountain DoVERHAY, 1i miles north-west, forms part of the town of
torrents. The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of Porlock; WEST LuccOMBE is rt west; and HoRNER, I mile
north-west, are hamlets.
stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave
of three bays, south aisle, south porch and an embattled Parish Clerk, Robert Ketnor.

western tower, containing a clock and 5 bells: there are PoST 0FFICE.-George Knight, receiver. Letters by foot
sittings for 250 persons. The register dates from 1676. The post from Minehead R.S.O. at 8.30 a. m.; dispatched at
living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge£307, net yearly 5.30 p.m. July & August & during the remainder of the
value £350, including 6o acres of glebe, with residence, in year at 4.30 p.m. week days only. The nearest money
the gift of the Ri~ht Hon. Sir T. D. Acland hart. and held since order & telCoa-r-d.ph office is at Porlock

1869 by Rer. James Vivian Bull M.A. of Trinity College, School (mixed), erected in 1881, for 40 children; average

Dublin. There are charities Af about £2 Ios. yearly, for attendance, 20; Miss Lawer, mistress

-1)7'.>.. SOMERSETSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Birmingham John H. West Luccombe Clarke Isaac, miller twater), Horner Ketnor Robert, shoe maker & shopkpr

Bull Rev. James Vivian M. A. Rectory mills, & farmer, West Luccombe Knight George, farmer

Adams Edward, farmer, Horner Ferris John, farmer Knight Robert, farmer, Holtball

BakerWm.wheelwright,West Luccombe Floyd Richard, farmer, Burrowhayes Pope Thomas, farmer, 1\'lilhams

L UFTON is a small parish, 3 miles west from Yeovil, the gift of E. C. Garland esq. and held since 1881 by the

where is the nearest railway station, in the Southern division Rev. Cecil John Hay Locke. Herbert Butler Batten esq.

of the county, Tintinhull hundred, Yeovil petty sessional D.L., J.P. of Hollands, Yeovil, is lord of the manor and prin-

division, union and county court district, Martock district of cipallandowner. The soil is loam and clay, and the subsoil

the rural deanery of Ilchester, archdeaconry of Wells and is clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and some land in

diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of SS. Peter and I pasture. The area is 288 acres ; rateable value, £67I; the

Paul, rebuilt in 1865-6, is a building of stone in mixed styles, population in 1881 was 51.

consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and western turret Parish Clerk George Bool

containing 2 bells: the font is of Norman date: there are '·
sittings for 100 persons. The register dates from 1730, The Letters arrive at 8.ro a. m. by foot post from Yeovil, which
living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £84, net yearly is the nearest money order & telegraph office
value £132, including 22 acres of glebe, with residence, in Children of this place attend Preston National school

Locke Rev. Cecil John Hay, Rectory I Marsh Samuel, farmer

LULLINGTON is a small parish and village, 2! miles are several stained windows, and sittings for 130 persons.

north from Frome station, on the Wilts, Somerset and Wey- The register dates from 1712. The living is a vicarage, an-

mouth branch of the Great Western railway, in the Frome nexed to the rectory of Orchard Leigh, average tithe rent-

division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division, charge £121, net yearly value £2ro, including 39 acres of

'Union, county court district and rural deanery of Frome, glebe, in the gift of the Rev. William Arthur Duckworth

archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The J.P. of Orchardleigh Park, and held since 1875 by the

church of All Saints, restored and enlarged in 1862, is an Rev. John Bacon Medley B.A. of Exeter College, Oxford.

ancient building of stone, believed to have been erected in Oborn's charity of £3 Ios. yearly is for bread. The Rev.

the reign of King Stephen (1135-54), though portions of the William Arthur Duckworth lii.A., J.P. of Orchardleigh,

edifice indicate signs of a much earlier foundation ; it con- Frome, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The

sists of chancel, nave, south porch and an_ embattled central soil is loam and marl, and the subsoil is marl. The land is

tower containing a clock and one fine bell : there is a fine chiefly in pasture for dairy purposes. The area is 719 acres ;

Early Norman font encircled by the following rhyming rateable value, £t,I24; the population in 1881 was 134.

couplet :-"Hoc fontis sacro pereunt delicta lavacro: '' the
church affords good examples of various styles; the nave is Letters received, via Frame, at 8.30 a. m. & through Beck-

Transition ; the transept, formerly a chapel, and still retain- ington at 6 p.m. at which place there is a money order &

ing a piscina, belongs to the period between the Early Eng- telegraph office. WALI, LETTER Box cleared at 6.20 p.m.

lish and Decorated styles, and the chancel represents the on week days only

change from Decorated to Perpendicular: inserted in the Church of England School (mixed), built & endowed in 1857

wall of the vestry is a stone slab, c. 1085, discovered during by William Duckworth esq.; average attendance, 40;

the restoration and supposed to be the lid of a coffin : there Robert Jackson, master

I IMedley Rev. John Bacon B.A. [vicarJ Gunning John, farmer, Church farm LAdbnry Eliza (:Y.rrs. ), shopkeeper
Giles John, farmer, Gloucester farm Hall John, baker & grocer White Henry, farmer, Park farm

LUXBOROUGH is a village and parish, 8 miles west' pari~hes of Withycombe, Timberscombe and Carhampton.

from Williton, 6 south from Dnnster station on the West Brendon Hill is in this parish, where are many ancient

Somerset branch of the Great Western railway, in the barrows, some of which have been explored. James Harvey

Western division of the county, hundred of Carhampton, Insole esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor, Sir Alfred Wilson

Dunster petty sessional division, Williton union and county Trevelyan bart. of Nettlecombe Court, and George Fownes

court district, rural deanery of Dunster, archdeaconry of Lnttrell esq. D.L., J.P. of Dnnster Castle, are the principal

Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. landowners. The soil in the valley is rich, and furnishes

Mary is a plain building of stone, in the Gothic style, but excellent pasture and good crops of wheat, oats, barley,

extensively modernised, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles mangolds, potatoes and turnips. The area is 3,855 acres ;

and a western tower containing 5 bells: there are sittings for rateable value, £2,097; the population in 1881 was 418.

·200 persons. The register dates from 1576. The living is PooLTOWN is a hamlet 1 mile south
a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Cutcombe, average ·
tithe rent-charge £34J' joint net yearly value £250, with
Parish Clerk, Thomas Heard.

house, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. John Vickery, receiver. Letters arrive

1887 by the Rev. James Joseph Large, who resides at the from Washford R.S.O. at 9.15 a.m.; dispatched at 4 p.m.

Vicarage, Cntcombe. There is a small Bible Christian The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Dunster.

chapel. Chargot Lodge, the residence of James Harvey WALL Box at Church Townclearedat3.40 p.m. weekdays

IInsole esq. J.P. is pleasantly situated about I mile south only

from the church. The hills here are lofty, and there is Parochial School (mixed), erected in 1874, for 120 children;
much uncultivated land in the parish. Croydon Hill, 1,253 average attendance, 8o; Isaac Naylor, master; Mrs.Annie

feet in height, is partly in this parish and partly in the I Naylor, mistress

l3aker Thomas, New house Heard Jesse, ~;ieve maker 1 Ridler James, farmer, Langham farm

Hake Rev. Thomas Gordon A.K.C.LOnd. Hole Silas, farmer, Hall farm I Scott Robert, shopkeeper

[curate] Howe John, farmer, Pool farm 1 Singerton Thomas, tailor
1
!nsole James Harvey J.P. Chargot lodge Langdon James, tailor, Kingsbridge Tarr William, farm bailiff to James

COMMERCIAL. Matthews James, carpenter & miller Harvey Insole esq.J.P. Chargot lodge
I Vicary Herbert, Royal Oak P.H. (free
Baker William, grocer, Church town (water), New mills

.Barton Richard, farmer, Westcott farm Mills John, shoe maker house) & butcher

Blackmore William, mason Norman Rt. Geo. farmer, Nurcott farm Vickery Fred B. agent for sewing &

Bnrnell Samuel, Lethbridge Arms P.H. Palmer Thomas, mason washing machines, dealer in breech-

Church town Partridge Geo. farmer, Monkham farm loading guns, gun implements &c. ;

()latworthyRobert, farmer, Baker's farm Pearce Alfd. black~mith, Church town cartridges made to order

Coles Samuel, wheelwright Pearce William, blacksmith, New mills Vickery John (Mrs.), grocer, outfitter, &

Coles 'Villiam, carpenter Perkins Thomas, chimney sweeper post office

Greenslade Jas. farmer, Parsonage farm Redwood Jas. farmer, East Slowley frm Withers Fras. Jas. frmr. Butcher's farm

LYDEARD ST. LAWRENCE is a parish and reredos, Decorated windows, and sedilia and a piscina of the
same date; and there is also a piscina in the south wall of
Yillage, 8 miles north-west from Taunton, 5 north-east from the nave: the chancel screen, of carved oak, is Perpendicular
Wiveliscombe, and ~~ south-west from Crowcombe Heath- work, and the bench ends and the pulpit are of similar
tield station on the West Somerset branch of the Great character: the nave windows are good Perpendicular: on
the south porch is a sun-dial, with the date 1653 : the interior
Western railway, in the Western division of the county, was restored in 1869 and 1870 at a cost of £1,700, and the
tower in 188o, when two of the bells were re-cast : there are
hundred of Taunton Dean, Bishops Lydeard petty 8essional sittings for 500 persons. The registers date from 1573. The
division, Taunton union and county court district, Welling- living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £336, net yearly
value £322, including 69 acres of glebe, with residence, in
ton district of the rural deanery of Taunton, archdeaconry the gift oi Robert Harvey esq. of Langley Park, Bucks, and

-of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of held since 1872 by the Rev. Charles James Scratchley B.A.
~t. Lawrence is a building of stonP., in the Decorated and of Brasenose College, Oxford. Here is a Congregational

Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel with north aisle,
nave of four bays, north aisle, north and south porches, and

a battlemented western tower with crocketed pinnacles,con-
taining a clock and 5 bells : the chancel has a modern

DIRECTORf.] S0~1ERSETSHIRE. LY.!HP3H.AM. 273

chapel. Mrs. Winter, Lord Ashburton, Rev. Frederick from Bishops Lydeard R.S.O. at 7.40 a.m. & dispatched

Hancock M.A. rector of Selworthy, James Edward Knollys at 5.20 p.m. week days only. Bishops Lydeard is the

J. P. of Fitzhead Court, and Mrs. Fenwick-Bissett, of Bag- nearest money order & telegraph office. Telegrams are

borough House, West Bagbor~mgh, are the chief landowners. also forwarded at Crowcombe Heathfield railway station

The soil is sandy; subsoil, red sandstone. The chief crops I A School Board of 5 members was formed Nov. 26, 1875;

are wheat, bJ'rley, oats and roots. The acreage is ~672; John Coles, Bishops Lydeard, clerk to the board &attend-

rateable value, £4,104: the population in 1881 was 52_,;. ance officer

Parish Clerk and Sexton, William Crosswood. Board School (mixed), erected in 1877, for 150 children;

Pos·r OFFICE.-Edmund Turner, receiver. Letters arrive average attendance, 95; Frederick John Knight, master

Scratchley Rev. Chas. Jas. B.A. Rectory Hill James, farmer, Will farm Snow Waiter J. farmer, Holcombe
f:;ully Henry, farmer, Westleigh
COMMERCIAL. Hartnell Mark,farmer & miller (water), Taylor Joseph, farmer, Westow
Holcombe
Trebelle Edwin, shopkeeper
Allercott Geo.miller (water),Nethercott Hooper Francis, farmer, Tarr Triggle John, farmer, Reed's farm
Turner Edmd. grocr. & drapr.l'ost office
Amery John, carpenter Howard Henry, grocer & draper Turner Saml. & Son, boot & shoe makr8
Vearncombe Geo. blacksmith & farmer
Amery Mark, Handy Cross inn King Frederick, threshing machine Vigar Octavius, farmer, Pyleigh
Warren Richard, farmer, Chipleigh ·
Apps John, threshing machine owner & proprietor, Tarr Warren Richd. Light, farmer, Pyleigh
Williams Harriet (Mrs.), ft•mr. Holford
carpenter Martin George, farmer, Chipleigh

Ashelford Joseph, wheelwright,Westow Martin James, farmer, Chipleigh

Balman -, farmer, Westleigh Mead Stphn. England,farmr.Nethercott

Blackmore Thomas, Friendship inn Miles William, farmer, Westow manor

Coles Thomas, boot maker Pearse Wm. N. farmer, Court farmer

Croad George (Mrs.), farmer, Knights • Shatlock William, farmer, Pyleigh

EAST L YDFORD is a parish, bounded on the north by by the Rev. John Alfred Dodd M. A. of Merton College,

the river Brue, and on the south by the river Carey, 5 miles Oxford: the Rev. J. J. Moss is patron. Charles E-lward

west from Castle Cary station on the Great Western railway, 1 H ungerford .Athole Colston esq. D. L., J. P. of Roundway

5 east from Somerton, and 15 south from Wells, in the park, Wilts, Francis Henry Dickinson esq. F.S.A., D.L.,

Eastern division of the county, Eastern division of the J.P. of Kingweston House, H. C. Holman esq. and George
hundred of Catsash, petty sessional division of Somerton, Hcrbert Dashwood Wilson esq. are the principal landowners.

county court district of Wells, Shepton Mallet union, rural! 'fhe land is all freehold. The soil is clay; the subsoil,.
deanery of Cary, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of . partly blue lias. The chief crops are wheat, beans, grass.

Bat.h and Wells. The church of St. Mary is a fine edifice of and orchard produce. The area is 7o6 acres; rateable-.
Keinton stone, with Doulting stone dressings, in the Early value, £1,128; the population in 1881 was 162.

English style, erected in 1865, at the sole cost of the late FoRE FooT is a hamlet, 2 miles north-east, consisting ot·

Rev. John James Moss M.A. then patron, as a memorial to two farm-houses and a few cottages '
Louisa Mary .Anne (Cust) his wife, daughter of the late ..
Lt.-Gen. the Hon. Sir Edward Cust K.C.H, d. 12 Sept. 1863 : Parish Clerk, Edward Pearce.
it consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a tower with Letters arrive from ~omerton at 8.15 a.m. "TALL LETTER·

octagonal spire 90 feet high, and containing one bell: the Box, cleared at 4·45 p.m. on week days only. Keinton
font was given by Capt. Egerton : the east window is a Mandeville is the nearest money order office & Baltons-
memorial to Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir Edward Cust bart. d. borough the nearest telegraph office
14 Jan. 1878 : there are sittings for 120 persons. The Church of England ~chool (mixed), erected in 1875, at a

register dates from 1730. The living is a rectory, net yearly cost of £sso, for 50 children; average attendance, 36; &

value £2oo, with residence, in the gift pro hac vice of the endowed with £400 by the late Rev. John James Moss

Bishop of Bath and Wells by lapse, and held since 1888 M.A.; Mrs. Catherine Young, mistress

[Marked thus • letters are received from • COMMERCIAL. Gibbons Wm. Gane, grocer & provsn.dlr
Higgins George, marine store dealer
Castle Cary S.O.] Bartlett Eliza (Mrs.), Cross Keys P.H.
Hoddinott Annie Kate (Mrs.), farmer
Brennand Frederick James M.B., C.M. & farmer Meek William & Thomas, farmers,

North Front Bowden William George, carpenter

Dodd Rev. John Alfred M.A. Rectory Brennand Frederick James M.B., c.M. Rubbery farm
*James Robert, Fore :Foot physician & surgeon, North :Front Pearce Albert James, dairy & corn.

Sawtell Mrs Cook E<iward, farmer farmer, Manor farm
Wightman William Crew
Wilson George Herbert Dashwood Cooper Robert, road contractor &farmr *Tilt George, farmer, Fore Foot .'

J *Cross Frank, boot & shoe ma. Fore Foot

WEST L YDFORD is a parish and village, situated ecclesiastic. The register dates from the year 1714. Tb~

partly on the J<'osse way, 5 miles west from Castle Cary living is a rectory, gross yearly value £3oo, with residence,

station on the Great Western railway, 9 south-south-west in the gift of Charles Edward Hungerford AthoTe Colston

from Shepton Mallet and 14 south from Wells, in the esq. and held since x88o by the Rev. William Holmes-Orr,..

Eastern division of the county, Eastern division of the bun- of St. Bees. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. There are charities.

dred of Catsash, Somerset petty sessional division, union of of £r4 yearly value. Charles Edward Hungerford Athole

Shepton Mallet, and Wells county court district, rural Colston esq. D.L.,J. P. of RoundwayPark, Wilts, is lord of the·

deanery of Cary, archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of manor and principal landowner. The soil is heavy day;

Bath and Wells. The ri>er Brew, or Brue, over which there the subsoil is partly blue lias. The chief cropsarewheatancJ

is a stone bridge of five small arches, fiows through the vil- orchard produce and some land in pasture. The acreage is.

lage. The church of St. Peter is a building of stone, in the 1,749A. 2R. ; rateable value, £2,062; the population in r881

Gothic style, rebuilt in 1846, at the expense of the Rev. W. was 267.

·-H. Colston D.D. and Edward Colston esq. and consists of Sexton, Edwin Pearce.
chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, south porch and an

embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 5labneclelsts: PosT OFFICE. - Mrs. Emma Collins, receiver. Letters
the east window is a. memorial, and two small through Somerton S.O. arrive at 8.45 a.m.; dispatched

are also t111 ained: in 188 1 various alterations and improve- at 4· 35 p.m. Keinton Mandeville is the nearest money
ments were made, at a cost of £ 200, when the approach to order office & Baltonsborough the nearest telegraph office.
the chancel was widened, a western screen erected, the font
Postal orders are issued here, but not paid

moved, and a lectern and prayer desk fixed: in 1887 the in- National School (mixed), erected in 1874, at a cost of £4oo;

terior of the church was thoroughly reno>ated and re-painted: it has an endowment of £8 yearly, derived from lands in

there are sittings for 200 persons : in the churchyard is an the neighbourhood ; it will hold 6o children ; average

ancient tomb of the 15th century, supposed to be that of an attendance, 42; Miss Ida Georgina Teale, mistress ..

Culling Mrs Hann Francis,painter & paperhanger &c Reynolds Solomon (Mrs.), dairy

Holmes-Orr Rev. William, Rectory Hoddinott Henry, dairy Thomas Charles, farmer & beer retailer

cmiMERCIAL. i JamesJn.dairy farmer, High Street farm Toogo.)d James, saddler & harness ma

Barrett Edwin, blacksmith ! Kerton William, farmer, G-range farm Welchman Robert, dairy &corn farmer_,

Chancellor Sarah (Mrs.), miller (water) 1 Maidment Emma & Henrietta Lonisa Bridge farm
Crees William B. W. farmer, Manor frm Cornish (Misses),ladies' collegiate schl Whitehead John, farmer &cattle dealer,

Dauncey William & .Aibert, carpenters Mathews Jn. miller (water),King-a-mill Lydford park [Postal address, Castle

& wheelwrights Raikes Mark, dairy farmer Cary S.O] .

LYMPSHAM .is a village and parish, bounded on the Western railway, in the Wells division of the county, Brenr-

north by the river .Axe, 6 miles south-south-east from cum-Wrington hundred, Axbridge petty sessional division
·weston-super-Mare and 2~ north-north-east from Brent and union, Weston-super-Mare county court district, Burn-

Knoll station on the Bristol and Exeter section of the Great ham .district of the rural deanery and archde~onry of

8. G.' ·~ B. •• (

274 LYMPSHAM• SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLY'S

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Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. 'rectory, is a building of stone, in the Tudor style; most of

Christopher is an ancient building of stone, in the Perpen- the rooms are panelled wtth oak and elaborately decorated ;

dicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, north the dining room displaying on its cornice the emblazoned

aisle, south porch and a fine western tower with a low shields of all the principal Somersetshire families ; there is

arcaded parapet and bold double buttresses, terminating in also a considerable collection of armour, English and foreign,

four massive pinnacles, both added in the last century, and aud of various interesting and valuable curiosities: attached

containing a clock and 6 bells : on the south window is the to the mansion is a fine conservatory, with gardens and

date 1633: the north aisle, which has a finely c~rved and lawns. The Manor Hall, erected in 1875, at a cost of £1,400,

moulded roof and a good parapet with pinnacles, appears to by the rector as a memorial to his late father, is a building

have originally been a chapel connected with the adjoining of stone, with Bath stone facings, and has three rooms

grange, probably used by the monks of Glastonbury as a attached, and is lent to the parish for meetings. The Rev.

summer residence; the c.eiling is a fine example of Perpen- Joseph Henry Stephenson, who is lord of the manor, Francis

dicular timber work: on the north side is a walled-up Henry Dickinson esq. F.S.A. of Kingweston House, Miss

entrance, and atabernacled niche, forming eitheracanopied 1 Cook, Col. Henry Acland Fownes-Luttrell C.B.,D.L., J.P. of
recess for the abbot's stall, or for the image of the Virgin, Badgworth Court, Weare, and W. A. Riddell esq. are land-

or some saint : at the east end is a piscina: the nave owners. The soil is clay; the subsoil is clay. The land is

roof is coved and enriched with good bosses, and below the chiefly in pasture. The area is 1,972 acres : rateable value,

wall plate are six grotesque heads, perhaps belonging to an £6,159; the population in 1881 was 453.

earlier roof : the chancel roof is of plaster work, and the PURVINGROW half a mile east EASTERTOWN half north-
BATC~ 1 mile north a.;e small
.east window is filled with modern stained glass . the font, a east and Clerk 'Joseph Amos 'shelton. hamlets
-work of the 12th century, with zigzag ornament, is a relic P~rish ·

oQf an earlier church : there are sittings for 340 persons. The '
register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1737 : PosT 0FFICE.-Benjamin Player, receiver. Letters from
"Inarriages, 1773 ; an earlier register of marriages is said to Weston-super-Mare arrive at 8 a. m. ; dispatC'hed at 6.30
'have been in existence till 178o. The living is a rectory, p.m. East Brent is the nearest money order office &
average tithe rent-charge £4I3, gross annual value £647. Higbbridge the nearest telegraph office

including 100 acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of and INSURANCE AG.ENT.-British Empire Mutual Life, J. Cham-

held since 1844 by the Rev. Josepb HenryStephensonM.A. of pion, jun. Wick farm

Queen's College, .Oxford, prebendary of Wells and rural Parochial School (mixed), belonging to the rector & partly

dean of Axbridge. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. The chari- supported by him & the landowners, erected in 1875, for

ties are £5 yearly for fuel, and £4 4s. to be distributed in 8o children; average attendance, 70; Harry Hodnett,

money. The Manor House, at present serving also as the master; Miss Alice Curry, mistress

Bissicks Mrs Champion Thomas (Mrs.), farmer J effries William, coal merchant, Batch

Stepbenson Rev. Jsph. Hy. M.A.[preben- Champion William, farmer,Rhyne farm Nation Frederick, butcher

dary of Wells & rural dean], Rectory Cock John, wheelwright Parker Henry, blacksmith

COMMERCIAL. Collins Charlotte (Mrs.), shopkeeper Pike John, boot maker

Alien George, baker Collins Frank, milk contractor Player Ben. grocer & draper, Post office

Amesbury Albert, Hobb's Boat P.H Collins George, farmer Shelton Joseph Amos, parish clerk

Beacbam Giles, farmer Corner Frank, farmer, Batch farm Slade Edward, contractor

Bennett Wm.(Mrs.), farmer, Peck'sfrm Cook Isaac, farmer Sperring James, farmer, Rectory farm

IJoard William, farmer Cook Josepb, farmer Spratt Francis, farmer

BoardWm.Morris,farmer,Chesnut farm Cooper Thomas, farmer Spratt James, farmer, Crips farm

.Bowring John, farmer CoxThos. carpenter&farmr.Holmefrm Stevens John, farmer

.Brock John, farrier Day John Fry, farmer, Church farm Stone George, coal merchant

Brooks Thomas, farmer Frost Waiter, farmer Vowles Charles, assistant overseer &

Brown William, farmer House J onas, farmer commission agent

.Butt James, farmer, Lower farm Huckman Henry, plumber & glazier Wall John, coal merchant, Batch

L YNCOMBE and WIDCOMBE form a parish within the city of Bath, which see.

LYNG is a parish and village, situated on the river Tone, which existed until February 8, 1539, when the last abbot,

and on the road from Taunton to Bridgwater, ri miles east , Robert Hamlyn, with eight monks, surrendered it, the

from Dursdon station on the main line, and half a mile annual revenue being then valued at £2og. Theconventual

west from Athelney station on the Dursdon and Yeovil' church was rebuilt in 1321, but of the monastic building no

branch of the Great Western railway, about 7! miles north- ' trace now remains, although from time to time portions of

east from Taunton and 7 south-east from Bridgwater, in tesselated pavement and other relics have been met with.

the Bridgwater division of the county, hundred of Anders- Alfred remained concealed in this fastness for a period of

field, Bridgwater petty sessional division, union and county about eleven weeks, during which he threw a bridge across

court district, rural deanery of Bridgwater, archdeaconry of the Parrett, which formed the north-eastern boundary of the

Taunton and diocese of Bath· and Wells. The church of St. island, and erected two forts, one on the mount immedmtely

Bartholomew is an ancient e4lifice of stone, in the Early east of the bridge, and another on the rising ground between

English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and Middle Zoyland and Othery, connecting these with each

an embattled western tower with pinnacles, 6o feet in height, other and the bridge by a long causeway, on the line of the

and containing a clock and 5 bells, the oldest of which is present embankment and the road to Othery; from the

dated x6og : on the south side is a handsome canopied strong position thus formed, Alfred harassed the Danes with

recess, serving as a sedile, the seat of which was restored continual sorties, until in May, 878, be rode forth to the

about x875 by the Rev. R. K. Meade-King, then vicar; east side of the forest of Selwood, where he met his asembled

.some of the bench ends are carved and in the tower is an forces, and leading them westward, gained possession of the

ancient chest formed from the hollowed trunk of a tree: the Polden heights to the enemy's rear,and thence suddenly fall-

stained east window is a memorial to Ricliard Meade-King ing upon them, fought on or about May 13, the decisive battle

esq. d. Jan. 30, r866, and another on the south side of the of Ethandun, in which the Danes, shut in on the remain-

chancel to Richard King Meade-King esq. of Walford, d. ing sides by the river and marshes, were completely defeated

April 20, 1887 : there are sittings for 150 persons. The and driven back upon their fort, probably occupying the site

register dates from 1691. The living is a vicarage, tithe of the town of Bridgwater; the scene of the engagement has

rent-charge £8r, gross yearly value £go, including 21 acres been fixed by recent investigations, near the village of Eding-

{)f glebe, with house, in the gift of Mrs. Meade-King, and held ton, which lies by the eastern extremity of the Polden hills,

.since 1875 by the Rev. Henry Codrington B.A. St. John's rather than at Edington in Wilts, a locality which fails to

College, Cambridge. A cattle fair is held annually on the accord with the narrative contained in the Sax(:m Chronicle.

.second Monday in August. Clifford Symons esq. of Bridg- The celebrated relic known as "King Alfred's Jewel," found

water, is lord of the manor. The chieflandowners are Miss in 1693 in Newton Park, some distance northward of the

Mullins, Thomas Mullins esq. .J.P. of Shrubbery Walks, abbey, and now deposited in the Ashmolean Museum at

Weston-super-Mare, and Mrs. R. K. Meade-King. The soil Oxford, consists of a crystal gem, cut and polished, and set

is clayey. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. in a covering of pure gold, exquisitely wrought and inlaid

The area is 1,423 acres ; rateable value, £4, 16o ; the popu- on the obverse with a figure of a king or other royal person

lation in 1881 was 353· seated on a throne, and holding in each hand an ornament

In this parish and lying within the angle formed by the shaped like a jleur de lis; on the reverse is floriated work;

junction of the rivers Tone and Parrett, is the tract of land round the margin of the upper side is the inscription : -

known as the ISLE OF ATHELNEY, formerly called "£thel- "JELFRED ME BEHT GEWYRCAN;" this relic is pear-shaped,

inga-aeg," or the "isle of the ..Ethelings or nobles," and and at the smaller end is the figure of a griffin, in the bead

historically famous, 1. as the retreat of King Alfred the of which is a small socket, intended, perhaps, to hold a book

Great during the invasion of the Danes; 2. as the stronghold staff, of which this was the handle. In r8or, Sir John Slade

from which he attacked the invaders, and 3· as the site on hart. of Mansell, the late proprietor of Athelney, and lord of

which, in A.D. 888, he founded a monastery fur llencdictines, the manor of North Petherton, caused a stone monument to

DIRECTORY.] 801\fERSETSHIRE. MARK. 2':"5

be erected here, with a suitable inscription, in order to at 4· ro p.m. every day except snnday. The nearest

commemorate more fully the historical associations of this money order & telegraph office is at North Curry

place and neighbourhood. WALL LETTER Box, West Lyng, cleared at 4.40

Parish Clerk, John Pearce. A School Board of 5 members was formed June'!!, r874; P.
0. H. Reed, Bridgwater, clerk to the board

PosT OFFICE, East Lyng.-William Bowyer, receiver. Board School (mixed), erected in 1875, for 6o children:

ILetters arrive from Taunton at 9.25 a.m. & dispatched average attendance, 56; Miss A. Mayes, mistress
• Codrington Rev. Henry B.A. Vicarage Rowyer William, shopkeeper Lye William, farmer

Brewer Samuel, farmer Marshall Benjamin Baker, farmer &
COMMERCIAL. Cousins Fras. Railway htl.Durston statu assistant overseer, Locketts' farm

Adams James, farmer, Outwood farm Crane Henry, wheelwright Pearse John, mason

Ames John, farmer Crane Samuel, wheelwright 1Phillips Henry, farmer

Badcock John, farmer Drake John, blacksmith Sealy William, Rose & Crown P.H

Batten Edmund, butcher & farmer , Hembrow William :Frederick, farmer Thomas Hector, basket maker

Batten Hy. Wm. farmer, Parsonage frm I Hunt Thomas, farmer, Glebe farm Turner Rd. Gatcombe, farmer,Lyng crt
I Lang Chas. farmer & butcher, Out\food
Batten Richard, butcher & farmer

MAPERTON is a parish, situated near the road from including 87 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of
Wadham College, Oxford, and held since r857 by the Rev,
London to Exeter, 4 miles n()rth-west from Temple Combe GeorgeEveleighSaundersM.A.formerlyfellow ofthatcollege.
Junction station on the London and South Western and There is a good freestone quarry in the parish and a brick
manufactory. Maperton House is the seat of Col. Alexander
3tSomerset and Dorset Junction railways, and east from Donald MacGregor. Thomas Todd Walton esq. who is lord of
the manors of Maperton and Clapton, and C. P. Penruddock
Sparkford station on the Great Western railway, in the esq. are the chief landowners. The soil is clayey; the sub-
soil is fuller's earth and fuller's earth rock. The chief crops
Eastern division of the county, Wincanton union, county are wheat, barley, oats, beans and green crops. The acre-
court district and petty sessional division, Catsash hun- age is r,ror; rateable value, £r,grg; the population in
dred, rural deanery of Cary, archdeaconry of 'raunton and r88r was 203.
diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of SS. Peter and
Parish Clerk, 'Villiam Toomer.
Paul, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt with
:Letters received through Winranton, which is the nearest
Bath stone in r86g, at a cost of about £r,5oo, raised by sub- money order & telegraph office, arrive at 8 a.m. WALL
scription; the style is principally Early English, and the LETTER Box cleared at 5·45 p.m.; sundays, ro a.m
church consists of 'Chancel with vestry, nave of three bays,
aisles, south porch and a western tower, containing 3 bells: National School (mixed), erected in r873, for So chUdren;
average attendance, 43; Miss Maria Dashwood, mi8tress
in the chancel is a Norman piscina removed from the old
church : the windows are stained, and were given by

Major Fitzgerald : there are sittings for about 120 people.
The register dat~s from 1556. The living is a rectory,

average tithe rent-charge £277, net yearly value £325,

MacGregor Col. Alexander Donald, Daley George, head gardener to Col. A. Lloyd Charles, mason
Maperton house D. MacGregor Perry George, farmer, Cupola
Perry Henry, farmer, Ryde
SaundersRev.Geo.Eveleigh M. A. Rectory Day Ann (Mrs.), farmer TuckerWilliam, farmer, Clapton
Ashford Chas. wheelwright & carpenter English Elwin, yeoman
Collins William Henry, dairyman English Geo. brick & tile ma. & yeoman

MARK is a village and parish, situated on the road from is 41494 acres; rateable value, £141714; the population

Highbridge to Wells, 4 miles east from Highbridge, ronorth- in r88r was r,097·

east from Bridgwater and 3 north-east from Bason Bridge 'rhe parish is divided into two districts, called East Mark

station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, in the Wells and West Mark respectively, and contains the following

division of the county, Bempstone hundred, Axbridge petty hatnlets, with their distances from the parish church:

sessional division, union and county court dist.rict, Burnham NoRTHWICK, 1! n.ailes west-north-west; SouTHWICK, 2 west-

district of the rural deanery and archdeaconry of Taunton and south-west ; VOLE, 2! north-west ; YARROW, l south ;

diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mark is a vener- DuTCH ROAD, 2 west ; YARD WALL, r! west-south-west ;

able building of stone in the Early English and Later styles, RIVER BRIDGE, situated on the river Brue, 2 south ; PERRY,

consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, north porch immediately adjacent on the north-east ; HARP RoAD, r!

and an octagonal embattled western tower with turrets, con- west-north-west; 11.nd PILLROW, ! north.

taining a clock and 6 bells: in the chancel are very fine oak MARK CAUSEWAY extends 2 miles west.

carvings of the four Evangelist.s, formerly in Bruges Cathe- Parish Clerk, Edwin Bond.

dral, and given to this church by the vicar in r879: PosT OFFICE, Mark.-Miss Carolina Pickford, receiver.

the church was restored in 1875 at a cost of £r,ooo, and has Letters arrive from Bridgwater at 7.30 a.m. : dispatched

400 sittings. The register dates from the year r647. The at 5.30 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office

living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £314, net is at Highbridge

yearly value £318, including 25 acres of glebe, with resi- PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Mark

dence, in the gift of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Causeway.-John Day, receiver. Letters through Bridg-

and held since r86o by the Rev. :Frederic Du Sautoy water arrive at 7 a.m.; dispatched at 6.ro p.m. High-

M.A. of Queens' College, Cambridge. TheWesleyan chapel, bridge is the nearest telegraph office

erected in r86g, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, PILLAR Box, at Wainbridge, Mark Causeway, cleared at

and will seat 280 persons. The Baptist chapel, erected in 5.50 p.m

r866, is an edifice of stone in the Gothic style and has 250 ScHOOLS : -

sttings. Charities producing .£4 ros. are distributed yearly. National (mixed), for roo children; average attendance,

The abbots of Glastonbury had a Court house in this parish. 94 & endowed with ,£27 yearly; Edwin Bond, master ;

Mrs. Fraser, who is lady of the manor, Mrs. Counsell, Mrs. Adelina Bond, mistress

and Mrs. Roberts are chief landowners. The soil is clayey; Mark Causeway Infants', erected in 1875, for 96 children;

the subsoil is lias. The chief crops are grass. '!'he area average attendance, 30; Miss Mary Jane Gardner, mist

Mark Hansford Albert, blacksmith Wensley James, agricultural implement

Carde Miss Hawkings Thomas, farmer ma.& general agt. ; &atChiltonPolden
Clarke John Wride Frank, shoe maker
Du Sautoy Re\". Frederic M.A. [vicar] Hutson George Cook (Mrs.), farmer
Mark Causeway.
COMMERCIAL. Lee Stephen, farmer, Perry
Bagg Miss, Yew Tree cottage
Bagg Henry, farmer MathewsMary (Mrs.), straw bonnet ma Gilling Henry, Rose cottage
Baker Edna (:Mrs.), farmer Moon :Miss
llowring Edwin, farmer, King's way Methuen George, butcher
Brooks Geo. Pack Horse P.H. & farmer CO!IIMERCIAL.
Burridge Ambrose, photographer Moon Edward James, farmer, corn Binning George, farmer
CardJn.Bnrnet,butchr.&grazier,Elrn ho Coombes James, contractor
Corner Benjamin, farmer merchant & agricultural implement Day Albert, iron & brass founder, Mark
Corner William, farmer, Totney farm
agent, Sotfield farm foundry
Day Comelius George, butcher
MMooortnimHeernFrv•ra, far mer, Mill Bat c h farm
nk, beer reta iler

Parker Frank, plumber & glazier

Petberam Samuel, farmer, King's way

Peters John, farmer, Mark house

Croker Frederick, saddler Phippen Stephen, farmer, Lit.tle moor Day Jn.linen draper & grocer,PQSt office

Cox William (Mrs.), far!ner, King's way S<J.lterWilliamEdwd.farmer,TheLaurels Drake Richard, baker

Dyer Silas, draper & grocer Sheppard Joseph, shopkeeper Emery Robert, cooper

:Fisher Thomas, farmer, Splot farm Webber Sarah (Mrs.), dress maker Fear Richard, farmer

l<'isher William, butcher WASt Simon, butcher Fear Thomas, carpenter

S. G. & B. 18*

276' MARK. SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLV's

Ham Edwin, farmer • Harding Caroline (Mrs.), farmer 1Watts John, farmer
Webber Henry, carpenter
House Albert, farmer Northwick.
House Rhoda (Mrs.), farmer Vole.

House William Oliver, farmer Ash William, farmer Bagg Richard, farmer
Bees Edward, tailor
Isgar Waiter, farmer, Wainbridge farm Counsell Samuel, stonemason House John Robert, farmer
Lee Charles, farmer
Latcham Sidney, farmer Luff John, farmer Sheppard Thomas (Mrs.), farmer
Sturgess George, farmer
Lee J ohu, farmer I1SMtuarrsghesHs eTnhroym, faasr,mfaerrmer
Mock Richard, tailor Sturgess William, farmer Yard Wall.
Moon James Counsell (Mrs.), farmer
Kick William, farmer
Parker Mary Ann (Miss), shopkeeper West Joseph, butcher
Yarrow.
Popham George, carpenter River Bridge.
Popham Joseph, carpenter Binning Miss
Binning John, farmer
Radford Mary (Miss), farmer Luff William, Black Bull P.H BuncomJ:>e John, farmer
Chapman George (Mrs.), farmer
Salter Alien, farmer . Stuckey Samuel, farmer Cox George, farmer
Puddy Amos, stonemason
Salter William (Mrs.), farmer Sweet Robert, farmer Urch Oliver, farmer
Wall George, farmer
Sheppard William, boot & shoe maker Watts James, farmer Wall Mark (Mrs.), farmer
Whiting Georg-e Edward, farmer
'foogood Michael, veterinary surgeon Southwick.
Tout James, farmer & baker

Tucker Edward, farmer Cook John (Mrs.)

Tucker.Henry, farmer Duckett Edward, farmer

Turner Joseph (Mrs.), farmer IFear George, farmer
Vowles John, farmer Popham Richard, farmer

Weaver Henry, farmer Raines James, farmer

Dutch Road. Reading Edward, farmer

Coleman Jesse, farmer Tratt Isaac, farmer

MARKSBURY is a parish and village, situated 400 Popham esq. who is lord of the manor, and together witb

feet above the level of the sea, 4 miles south from Keynsham Col. Aylmer and Batten l'oole esq. are the principal land-
station on the Bristol and Exeter section of the main line of owners. There is a lake of 7 acres well stocked with fish,
the Great Western railway, 9 south-east from Bristol and 7 near the house and in the private grounds. The soil is.
south-west from Bath, in the Northern division of the county, loam; subsoil, marl. The chief crops are wheat and barley
Keynsham hundred, petty sessional division and union, and some laud in pasture. The area is 11420 acres ; rate-
Bath county court district, rural deanery and archdeaconryof able value, [,1,792; and the population in 1881 was 230.
Bath and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. HouNDSTREET, or Hunstrete, is a hamlet of this parishp
Peter is an ancient building of stone in the Early English I! miles west from the parish church.
style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a tower, Parish Clerk, Robert Bailey.
with pinnacles, containing 6 bells: there are sittings for 85 PosT 0FFICE.-William Holbrook, postmaster. Letters.
persons : in 1886 a plot of land was given by the lord of the from Saltford R.S.O. arrive at 9· IS a. m. ; dispatched at

manor to enlarge the churchyard. The register dates from 6 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at
1563. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge [,247, net Timsbury. Letters for Houndstreet through Chelwood.
yearly value [,2o4, including 17 acres of glebe, with resi- Pensford is the nearest money order & telegraph office.
dence, in the gift of F. W. Leyborne Popham esq. and held Postal orders are issued here, but not paid

since 1885 by the Rev. Thomas James Scott M.A. of Exeter National School (mixed), built with house for mistress in
College, Oxford. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. Houndstreet 1873, for 70 children; average attendance, 49; Miss
Manor House is the seat of Francis William Leyborne Florence Isabel Toleman, mistress

Boulter Mrs BakerChas. Albt.land steward to F. W. Pierce Mary Ann (Mrs.), blacksmith

Harding William Coles Leyborne-Popbam esq. Hound Street Pool Henly, farmer

Leyborne Popham Francis William, Harding Wm. Coles,farmr. Church frm VealEmma(Mrs. ),farmer,Hound Street.

Manor house, Hound Street Holbrook William, grocer, Post office Wall James, builder

Scott Rev. Thomas James M.A. Rectory Jenkins EH, farmer, Court farm

MARSTON BIGGOTT is a parish and village, 3 miles field called "Conqueror's Mead," a name said to commemo-

south-west from Frome station on the Wilts, Somerset and rate some great battle fought here at a remote period ; in-
Weymouth branch of the Great Western railway, iu the the field is a barrow, beneath which the bodies of the·
Frome division of the county, Frome hundred, petty ses- slain are supposed to have been interred. The Earl of Cork

sional division, union and county court distriet, rural deanery and Orrery P.C., K.P. who is lord of the manor, and the
of :Frome, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath Marquess of Bath F.S.A. are the sole landowners. The soil
and Wells. Under the Divided Parishes Act, I882 (45 and is heavy, wet clay, with a wet, retentive bottom; the sub-
46 Vict. c. 58), part of this parish known as "Spring soil is stiff clay, and a poction of the northern part of the'
Gardens " was transferred to Frome. The church of St. parish is limestone. A ridge of the oolite formation runs.
Leonard, situated close to Marston House, and rebuilt on through the parish into the adjoining parish of N unney.
the site of the ancient church in 1789, is a small building of The land was formerly in a very backward state of cultiva-
stone in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, tion, but since the present earl came into possession it has
organ chamber, vestry and an embattled western tower, been much improved, having been well drained, the farm
with pinnacles, containing 5 bells: the whole of the windows houses renovated, new cottages erected, and the old ones

are stained: there are sittings for ISO persons. The regis- made more tenantable. The principal part of the parish is
ter dates from 168o. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge pasture land; wheat and beans are grown. The acreage is

£254, gross yearly value £323, including 46 acres of glebe, 2,238; rateable value, [,2,974; the population in I88I was
with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Cork and Orrery, 357·

and held since I88o by the Rev. John Constable M.A. of GAER HILL ciosntaainhsamtwleot,sta4inmedilewsinsdoouwths. ; St. Michael's:
Trinity College, Cambridge. Marston House, the mansion chapel of ease the east win-
of the Earl_of Cork a~d O_rrery P.c., K.P.~D.L., J.P. has been dow representing ''The Resurrection;" the west window is
almo~t smce the acces~non of th_e present
entirely reb!ldt fine structure m the Itahau style, I of decorated grisaille and bo.th w. ere presented by Lady Bath-
earl m 1857, and 1s a
situated in a well-wooded park of about 400 acres on the Letters through Frome! wh1eh 1s the nearest money order &
slope of a hill, facing the south-east, overlooking a fine vale telegraph office, arr1ve at ?·3o a.m. & 5 p.m. WALL.
of pasture land, in which there is an artificial lake of about LETTER Box near the Natwnal school, c~eared. at 5.25

2o acres, the view being terminated by a range of lofty hills p.m. week ?ays only. Letters for Gaer Hdl arr1ve. from

extending from Warminster to Stourton; it came into the Bath to Ma1den Bradley, thence by messenger, delivered

possession of the Boyle family by purchase about the year at 7 a.m. WALL Box cleared at 6.25 p.m. week days only

1630 : the site of the ancient house, of which not a stone ScHOOLS:-
remains, is still known by the name of "Marston Moat:" National, Marston(mixed), erected in I84o, for7o children~
at the house is preserved the portrait of one Asberry, a average attendance, so; Mrs. Sarah Higham, mistress
clergyman living in the village in the 17th century and a National, Gaer Hill (mixed), erected in I85o, for so chil-
protege of Roger, 1st Earl of Orrery. Near to this spot is a dren; average attendance, 18; Samuel Shelton, lllaster

Cork & Orrery Earl of P.c., K.P., D.L., Cooper William, land steward to the Parrott John, dairy farmer, Moat farm

J.P. (lord Iieut.), Marston house; & Earl of Cork & Orrery, Park cottage Rossiter Simon, dairy & corn farmer,.

21 Eaton terrace, Eaton sq. sw; & CreesJn. Chas.farmer,LittleSharpshaw Monksham farm

Brooks' & White's clubs, London sw GrantBenj.coalhaulier,Springgardens Smith Emanuel, shopkeeper, GaerHill

Constable Rev. John M.A. Rectory Hoddinott Henry, farmer, Mains farm SmithGeorge, baker&farmer,GaerHill

COMMERCIAL. HoddinottFnk.dairy frmr.HaslettHI.fm Webb Elizh.(Mrs.),frmr.WestForest fm

Chambers George, stone mason , Miller James, dairy farmer, Forest farm 'Vills James, farmer, Walldyke farm

DIRECTORY.] .SOMERSETSHIRE. • ,MARTOCK. 2........

MARSTON MAGNA is a parish and village, with a Thomas Palmer; £6, by M-rs. Palmer and £7 from an

station on the Wilts and Somerset branch of the Great unknown donor : these are deposited in the Yeovil Savings

Western railway. 120 miles by road from London, 5 north- Bank, the interest being drawn once in four years and dis-

east from Yeovil, in the Southern division of the county, tributed in money to the poor. Here are the remains of an

Horehorne hundred, Yeovil petty sessional division and ancient building, called "Court Garden," with a moat and
county court district, Sherborne union, rural deanery of fish ponds. The representatives of the late James Parsons
esq. of Drayton, are lords of the manor ; and the Warden and
Merston,archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. Fellows of Winchester College, George E. G. Andrews esq.
Thomas Moore esq. and Joseph Chaffey Moore esq. are the
A brook, which rises at Corton Denham, runs through the vil· chief landowners. The soil is rich loam and stiff clay; the
subsoil is gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat, grass
lage and worksse\•eral mills. The church of St. Mary is an

ancient building of stone in the Early English and Perpendicu-
lar styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch

and an embattled western tower. with pinnacles, containing and dairy produce. The area is 1,345 acres; rateable value,

a clock and 4 bells: the font is Norman: a chapel, the date £4.157; the population in xBBx was 321.

of which is uncertain, has been added to the original build- A detached part of Queen Camel parish, known as Nether

ing, supposed to date from about II35-54: some of the Abder, was amalgamated on March 25, xBB5, with this
windows retain fragments of ancient stained glass, probably parish.
of the 13th century: there are sittings for 250 persons. The Parish Clerk, John Bush.

register dates from 1566. The living is a vicarage, tithe PosT Oio'FICE.-Thomas Sheppard, receiver. Letters from

rent-charge £2Br, net yearly value £316, including B6 acres Sherborne (Dorset), arrive at Bo.r5d5era .m. ; dispatched at
a4t_4Q5 upe.emn .CaTmheel nearest money & telegraph office is
nf glebe, with house, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of
Bristol, and held since rB7B by the Rev. Jefferis William

Coles B.A. of Worcester College, Oxford. Here is .1 Wes- INsuRANCE AGENT.-Lancashire, Josiah Bush
leyan chapel. The Rev. J. Williams left three dwellings as
National School (mixed), built in rB4r, for 58 children;
almshonses for aged poor, and the interest of £roo stock average attendance, 44, with an endowment, under the
fot the purpose of repairs; Mrs. Frances Cox, his daughter, control of the vicar, for five boys of Marston & five of

gave £roB r6s. nd. stock, the interest of which is dis-

tributed to the inmates of the almshouses, in coals, from Ashington ; William A. A. Crabb, master

November to March; there are also charities of £m, left by Railway Station, Robert George Smith, station master

Bird Nathan, Marston house Higdon Elias, farmer Sheppard Thomas, baker, Post office
Coles Rev. Jefferis William B. A. Vicarage Higdon Thomas, shopkeeper Shute Albert John, farmer
Hobbs-Webber John, Marston court Hobbs-Webber Jn. farmer, Marston et Smith Robert George, station master
Horsey Hubert Hockey Jame3 (Mrs.), farmer SomersetTradingCo. importers of slates
Nettleton William Hunt George, blacksmith
Shaw Thomas, Millbrook villa Kingston William, farmer & foreign timber, coal, coke, salt,
Meech Warren, miller (water), Marston corn, linseed & cotton cake, meal,
COlllMERCIAL. manure & general merchants; pipes,
mills tiles & all kinds of brickyard goods in

Bush John, plasterer & parish clerk Morris Isaac, butcher stock (Josiah Bush, agent), Railway
Bush Josiah, insurance agent Oatway John Palmer & William, far- station; & at Sparkford; chief office,
Chalker Henry, farmer, Marston park Bridgwater
Coutancbe Robert, farmer mers, Little Marston Thorn Tom Rowland, coal & salt mer-
Davis Thomas, cooper Pike Richard, Marston inn, & farmer chant, Railway station
Eden Israel, baker Pitman Samuel, farmer Thorn William, baker
Hannam Thomas, farmer Rossiter Aaron, carpenter Wills Francis, carpenter
Harris Charles, cattle dealer Salmon David Charles, Red Lion P.H
Sheppard James, farmer

MARTOCK is a village or town, situated on the river Parish Clerk, Thomas Hooper.

Parrett, 130 miles from London, 5 south-west from Ilchester PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office

and 5! north-west from Yeovil, with a station on the (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. Somerset

Yeovil branch of the Bristol and Exeter railway, in the added).-Charles Philp, postmaster. Letters are de-

Southern division of the county, hundred of Martock, Yeo- livered at 7 a.m. 10.30 a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; sundays, 7

'Vil petty sessional division, union and county court district, a.m.; dispatched, 9.15 a.m. 3.50 p.m. 5.30 p.m. &6.35

Martock district of the rural deanery of Ilchester, archdea- p.m. ; sundays, 6.40 p.m. Money orders are granted from

conry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church 9 a.m. to 6 p.m

of All Saints is a very fine building of Ham stone in the WALL LE'M'ER Box, Stapleton, cleared at 5.30 p.m.; Coat,

Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave 5·45 p.m.; Bower Henton, 5.30 p.m

of five bays, transept, aisles, south porch and an embattled INSURANCE AGENTS : -

western tower containing a clock and 5 bells : the handsome Accidental Death, J. Pool, Coat

carved roof and the seats are of oak : there are several mural Briton Medical & General Life, J. Pool, Coat

tablets : the east window is Early English : in rBB3 the Commercial Union, G. V. Palmer, Water street

()hancel roof, the greater part of the interior of the church and Economic Life, S. Darby, Bower Henton

the organ were thoroughly repaired ; a new pulpit was also General, W. G. Palmer

erected and the churchyard put in order at a cost of £Boo : Queen, A. W. Philpott, Church street

<there are sittings for 950 persons. The parish registers date West of England Fire & Life, W. Palmer

.from the year I553· The living is a vicarage, average tithe PuBLIC EsTABLISHMENTS : -

t"ent-charge £229, net yearly value £271, including 63 acres Fire Brigade, Engine station, Water street, J. D. Adams

flf glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and M. D. captain

Wells, and held since rBB9 by the Rev. Archdale l'almer Wick- Police Station, North street, John Cole, sergeant in charge

ham B.A. of New College, Oxford. There are Congregational, Public Hall, Church street

Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, the latter built at a cost of PUBLIC OFFICERS : -

£r,Boo and seating 320 persons. Goodden's charity of £27 Assistant Overseer, Albert William Philpott, Church street

yearly value is distributed in bread to the second poor of the Inspector under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act for

parish every Sunday, and Leach's, of £9 yearly value is for Yeovil & Somerton petty sessional divisions, Robert Ware

clothmg; Leaves's charity of £275 in Consols is distributed 111.R.C. V. S

in coals and clothing. There is an old cross in the market :Medical Officer of Health, Yeovil Rural Sanitary Authority;

place, near the spot where formerly stood an ancient oak Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, No. r. B District,

tree, from which this village is said to derive its name, Langport Union, & No. 4 District, Yeovil Union, &

Martock (Market Oak). A cattle fair is held the first week Registrar of Births & Deaths, Martock Sub-District, Yeo•

in August, yearly, and a market the last Monday in every vil Union, Joseph Dixon Adams M.D. Water street

month. The manufacture of gloves is somewhat extensively SCHOOLS:-

carried on here. Waiter Leach esq. is lord of the manor, The old Grammar school, situated near the church, was

and Mrs. M. M~ody, of Stapleton House, and the representa- founded in 1661 by William Strode, of Barrington, who

tives of the late William S. Wood and Rev. G. B. Lewis are charged his estates with a yearly payment of £12 for its

the principal landowners. The soil is clayey, and the sub support ; subsequently the manor of Martock was released

soil is clay. Tb.e erops are chiefly wheat and beans; flax is from this annual payment, the lord of the manor charging

also cultivated iu many parts. The area is 6,747 acres ; certain lands with quit rents to the amount of £15 ss. 7d. ;

rateable value, £1B,52B; the population in rBBr was 3,004. these quit rents, however, were not regularly paid, &

AsH, 1! mile3 north-east; LoNG LoAD, 2t north; MILTON, ultimately the trustees placed the matter in the hands of
ri north; STAPLE'l'ON, I north j WITCOMBE, ~north-north­ the Charity Commissioners, who sold the old building in

east; CoAT, 1 north-west; HunsT, and BowER HE!'iTON, 1 xB71; the whole of the trust then amounted to £347• &

south, are tithings in this parish. AsH, MILTOS and WIT- quit rents £ro 15s. 2d. payable annually, & is now used

COliiBE form the ecclesiastical parish of Ash, which see. LONG to promote generally the education of boys & girls in the

LOAD is also a separcl.te ecclesiastical parish. hundred of Martock, no fresh school having been built

278 MARTOOK. SOMERSETSHIRE. [KELLY'S

National, Martock, built in 1846, for 240 children; average Railway Station, Philip Tucker, station master. Omnibus

attendance, x68; Charles William Drew, master to meet all trains, from 1 White Hart '
National, Bower Henton, built about 1870, for 200 chil-

dren ; average attendance, 125 ; Miss Ann Maria. Wilkes, CARRIERS.-Great Western Railway Co. (J. C. Wall, agent)
mistress

Martock. Day John Thomas Dyer, Prudential In- Pottcnger Joseph, farmer, Coat

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. ' surance agent, Bower Henton Quantock William, draper, North street

Dent's Glove Factory (John Gard, Rather Emily (Mrs.), George hotel,
Adams Joseph Dixon M.D. Water street manager), Water street
Church street

Adams Mis11, Hurst Drayton Chas. Wesley, painter,Water st Rather Jasper, joiner, Church str31't

Ash Mrs. Church street DraytonEmma(Mrs.),dressma.Waterst Reyland Lavinia (Mrs.), shopkeeper,

Barber William, Water street Druce Joseph, Prudential Insurance Bower Henton

Barnard Charles, Burst agent, East street Richards J oseph, baker, North street

Beale Mrs. Church street Farrant Henry Jn. farmer, Manor farm Richards Saml.blacksmith,BowerHentn

Bensqn Charles, North street Fire Brigade (J. D. Adams M.D. capt.), Richards Thomas Wilce, agent to

Bishop Mrs. East street Water street Somerset Trading Co. & West of

Bradford John Wesley, Ashfield Foley William Samuel Tomkins B.A., England Sack Lending Co. Limited

.BradfordWilliam Theophilus,Moorlands M. B. surgeon, Ivy cottage, Water st Richards William,farmer, BowerHenton

Bristow Miss, Church street Follett George, shopkeeper,:::ltapleton rd Ricketts Mark, carpenter,BowerHenton

Bult Richard, North street Gillett George, farmer, Coat Ring Matthias Taylor & Co. wine &

Clark Thomas, Goose Hill house, Bower Gillett James, farmer, Coat spirit merchants, East street

Henton GilesGeo.chimney sweepr.BowerHenton Rogers Hy. Wm. boot maker, North st

Cooper William Edward, Manor house Gillett Francis, farmer, Coat Rogers James,fruit dealer,BowerHenton

Dight Mrs. Water street Gimblett, Son & Co. Limited, boot & Salisbury Edward, farmer, Coat

Foley William Samuel Tomkins B. A., shoe dealers, Market place Salisbury George, farmer, Coat

M.B. Ivy cottage, Water street Glover Saml. dairyman, Bower Henton Salisbury William, tailor, Bower Hentn

Gilbert Major Edward Foot, The Lawn, Gould George, basket maker, North st Sandiford James, carpenter, Water st

Water street IGould Gilbert, miller (water & steam), Scammell Whitfield, yeoman, Stapleton
Griffin Henry, Bridge house Madey mill Sherrin Edwin, butcher, North street

Harrison Rev. John [curate], The GreatWesternRailway(J.C.Wall,agent) Shutler Jn.Red Lion P.n. Bower Henton

Limes, Burst Hallett Ellen(Mrs.),beerretlr.Stapleton SIBLEY WILLIAM &. SON, engineers

Hopkins William, Coat HartEmily(Mrs. ),shopkpr.BowerHentn (late West of England Engineering

Keddle Rev. Robert Antram B.A. Manor Hann J. H. timber merchant Co. ), millwrights, machinists, iron &

house, Hurst Haysom John, plumber & house deco- brass founders, agricultural imple-
LeachJn.Walt.Burton,The OldVicarage rator, North street
ment manufacturers & makers of the

Leach Waiter, The Old Vicarage Hopkins William, corn factor, Coat patent cart & waggon wheels, &

Leaver Mrs. Hurst Horsey Waiter, beer retailer, East st makers of Evans' patent duplex ver-

Moody Mrs. Staplet.on house, Stapleton Hunt Edwin, agent to J. C. Wall, car- tical mill, The Parrett works
Palmar Montrose Addison, Water street rier, North street
Smith George Hedgecombe & Co. Lim.
Palmer Mrs. Vernon ho. Bower Henton Hunt Joseph, hair dresser & china rope & twine makers, Parrett works
Philpott Albert William, Church street dealer, Church street
Smith Jefferys Halson, linen draper, &

Pool Joseph, Myrtle cottage, Coat Jnder Luke, butcher, North street agent for W. & A. Gilbey, wine &

Rickcord Mrs. Bath villa, Water street Johnson Henry, beer retailer, North st spirit merchants, North street

Ring Matthias Taylor, East street Johnson Mary Jane (Mrs.), dress Somerset Trading Co. importers of

Sibley William maker, North street timber, slate, coal &c. (Thomas Wilce

Snell Mrs. Church street KingMary Ann(Miss),shopkpr.Waterst Richards, agent)

Sparrow William, Bower Henton Lane William, Good Samaritan P.n. Sparrow William, engineer, millwright,

Thomas Rev. John Leon [Congrega- Bower Henton brass & iron founder, agricultural

tional], Bower Henton Lawrence Jasper, plumber & shop- implement maker & all kinds of iron

Vaughan Thomas, East street keeper, Bo-wer Henton & wood wheels, The Somerset wheel

Ware Robert, North street Leach John Waiter Burton, solicitor, & waggon works
Wickham Rev. Archdale Palmer B.A. Church street
Spiller Wm. Seymour, baker, North st

Vicarage Lock James, shoe maker, Bower Henton Stower Joseph, builder, North street

COMMERCIAL. Lye Diana (Mrs.), beer retailer, East st Stuckey's Banking Co. (agency) (Major

A'Court Charles, blacksmith, East st Lye Samuel, baker, East street Jelinger H.Symons R.M. agent); draw

Adams Joseph Dixon M.D. physician, Marsh John, tailor, North street on Robarts,Lubbock &Co. London E c-

medical officer of health for Yeovil Martock Brass Band (Edward Perris Symes Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Coat

rural samtary authority, medical offi- Wheller, bandmaster), North street Symes Richard, farmer, Coat

cer & public vaccinator I B district, Martock Conservative Association (F. Tapp Thomas,blacksmith, Bower Hentn

Langport union & 4 district Yeovil J. H. Hawkins, hon sec.) Tatchell John, farmer, Bower Henton

union & registrar of births & deaths Martock Public Hall & Literary Insti- Terrell Elizh. (Miss), dressma. Northst '

tor Martock sub-district, Yeovil tute (William George Bull, hon. Terrell Lydia (Miss), dress ma. North st

union, Water street sec.), Church street Terrell James,shoe maker, BowerHentn

Alexander Frederick, butcher, East st Noble Wm. shopkeeper, Bower Henton Tucker Abraham, coal dealer, ·water st

Bailey Thomas, farmer, Coat Palmer & Co. herbalists, Water street Vaughan Thomas, glove manufacturer

Baldwin George, general dealer, East st Palmer William & Frederick, auc- & glove finisher, Tilburyed, East st

Banfield Fras. Saml. builder, North st tioneers, surveyors, land & estate & Vaux Gilbert, butcher, Water street

Banfield Joseph, beer retailer, North st insurance agents Viney Joseph, clock maker &c

Barber Waiter Thos. saddler, Church st Palmer Montrose Addison, printer, Walker Thomas, grocer & tailor

.Bartlett Ann (Mrs.), shopkeepr. East st bookbinder & newspaper proprietor, Waiters John Henry, glove manufac-

Bartlett Charles, farmer, Coat Atlas printing office, Water street turer (fabric), Hurst

Beater Charles, shopkpr. Bower Henton Palmer Waiter, farmer, Bower Henton Ware Robert M.R.c.v.s. veterinary sur-

Benson Charles, architect, North street Palmer's Weekly News (M. A. Palmar, geon &inspector under the Contagious

Best Joseph, mason, Water street proprietor; issued on thursdays); Diseases (Animals) Act for Yeovil &

Best Robert,shopkeeper, Bower Henton office, Water street Somerton petty sessional divisions

Billett William, beer retailer, Coat Passley John Beaton, builder, Church st Watts H. S. & S. solicitors, Church

Bishop Geo. boot & shoe ma. North st Passley William, builder, East street street ; & at Yeovil

Bool John, boot maker, North street Paull &; Co. tent, marquee, sack & tar- Way & Nutt, drapers & grocers

Bradford & Sons, corn, coal, culm, tim- paulin manufacturers & corn & seed West of England Sack Co. Limited

her, slate &general merchants (Tom dealers, North street (Thomas Wilce Richards, agent)

Paull, agent) Paull Tom, agent to Bradford & Sons Wheller Mary Ann (Mrs.), lodging

Bull George, farmer, Water street Peaty William, shopkeeper, North st house, North street ··;;·•.~...,

Butcher Charles, baker, North street Philpott Albert William, accountant, WhellerWinfred,stone mason & shopkpr

Chubb John, cooper house & estate agent & assistant over- White John, Railway hotel 1

Cockerell Geo. Chas. grocer, Market pi seer, Church street Wilkinson Joseph, tailor, North street

Collins Benjamin, ironmonger, Northst Philp Charles, chemist, Post office Williams Reece, Prudential Insurance

Cribb George, general dealer Police Station (John Cole, sergeant in agent, North street

Cnlliford Edward, butcher, Stapleton rd charge), North street Wills John William, dairyman

Darby Samuel, yeoman, Bower Henton Pool Joseph, farmer, auctioneer & sur- ·wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited

Varby Saml.Read,farmer,BowerHenton veyor, estate & insurance agent, (agency),Churchst.; draw on London

Darby William, farmer, Bower Henton Coat. See advertisement & Westminster BankLim. London EC