SOMERSET. Klt.TON•WI'rb•LT LSTOOK, 807 ,J ' Yearly Value £2Oo, with Residence, in the Gift of Lord Hylton Lord, Ammerdown Bath Hylton, and Held Since 1910 by the Rev
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DIRECTORY SOMERSET. Klt.TON•WI'rB•LT LSTOOK, 807 ,J ' yearly value £2oo, with residence, in the gift of Lord Hylton Lord, Ammerdown Bath Hylton, and held since 1910 by the Rev. Cecil Grafton Lee William. Blackstone, Nordley Chantry, Frome Norton M.A. of Keble College, Oxford, who is also Mattick Waiter, Warwick, Market place, Radstock, Bath rector of Babington. ;Fart of this parish was formed Neville Admiral Sir George K.C.B., C.V.O. Babington into the ecclesiastical parish of Coleford, April 4• 1843. house, Babington, Bath , A new mission room, dedicated to St. Paul, was erected Shore John Henry, Whatley house, Frome in 1909 at Kaydon, and will seat 75 persons. Here are That~her John, The Hollies, Midsomer Norton, Bath Wesleyan Methodist and Primitive Methodist chapels. Waldegrave Earl, Chewton Priory, Bath· The Kilmersdon Colliery Company Limited have a Wickham Rev. James Douglas Clephane B.A. Manor large colliery near the north-west boundary of the i house, Holcombe, Bath parish, employing a large number of bands. Ammer- I Clerk to the Magistrates, Percy W. D. Cruttwell, Bath down, the seat of Lord Hylton J.P. which stands 1 street, Frome within a park 4 miles in circumference, is a mansion I The chairmen, for the time being, of the Midsomer in the Classic style, from a design by James Wyatt, Norton & Radstock Urban District Councils & the and commands extensive views of the surrounding I Frome Rural District Council are ex-officio magistrates country; in the park, on a site 6oo feet above the : Special & Petty Sessions for the division of Kilmersdon, sea level, stands a column, 150 feet high, rising from a 1 comprising the parishes of Babington, Chilcompton. platform relieved with casts from antique statues and , Forscote, Hardington, Hemington, Holcombe, Kilmers containing an iron staircase: the erection of this struc- don, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Stratton-on-the ture as a memorial to Thomas Samuel Jolliffe esq. a : Fosse & Writhlington, are held in the Victoria hall. former possessor of this estate, is explained in inscrip- Radstock, every second monday (except when it is a tions in Latin, French and English, on the different Bank Holiday) at 11.15 a.m. for general business, & compartments of the plinth ; · the column is open to the on every monday throughout the year for hearing public by order. Lord Hylton is lord of the manor and ca~es under the Summary Jurisdiction Act. Attend- principal landowner, and also impropriator of the great ·ance is given at Radstock by the clerk every monday tithes. There is every variety of soil, from stone brash i at n o'clock, for the purpose of taking informations. and loam to 4eavy clay; the subsoil is various, but coal I issuing process &c abounds, and in some cases is found at great depth. The land is in pasture for dairy purposes. The area of , County Constabulary, William E. Pring, sergeant. the parish is 3,552 acres; rateable value, £II,375; the There is a. sergeant & two constables stationed at population in 19II was 2,204 in the civil and 867 in the Midsomer Norton & an inspector (Alfred Stewart) & ecclesiastical parish. two constables at Radstock, & a police constable at Under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act, each of the following places :-Coleford, Chilcompton. 1882,'' a detached part of Holcombe, in Shepton Mallet Falkland, W elton, Clandown .& W estfield union, has been transferred to this parish for civil purposes. SCHOOL. CHARLTON is a hamlet, half a. mile west, and has a Endowed SchooL-In 1719 the Rev. Thomas Shute gave a Primitive Methodist ·chapel, built in r861. Charlton rent-charge of £2o towards the support of a school fol' House, the property of Lord Hylton, and the residence 40 children, & Mrs. Mary Freeman's gift, with Bayn of Hugh Johnston esq. is a noble mansion of stone, ton's & Sheppard's charity, bring in £7 12s. 8d.; this occupying a prominent position in a well-timbered park benefaction was further increased by an annuity of £20, of 26 acres. given by the late Col. John Twyford Jolliffe; Carter's Sexton, William Rhymer. charity providing about £1 6s. 8d. yearly, iilso a rent-charge of £2o on Lower Field in perpetuity. In JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR KILMERSDON 18g8, by consent of the Charity Commissioners, this PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. school was amalgamated with the former National Chairm!an, senior magistrate present. school, which was erected 185o & enlarged I8g8, & is Broderip Edmund Francis, Fyley, Weston-super-Mare now called Shute's ·& Jolliffe's school; it. has accom Carter George, 9 High street, Midsomer Norton, Bath Hearse Corbett, Mendip view, Radstock, Bath modation for 200 children (mixed & infants); Herbert Hill Benjamin Hansford, The Old rectory, Uphill, William Long, master Weston-super-Mare Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Miss Ellen Florence Woolford. Horner Sir John Francis Fortescue K.O.V.O., M.A., sub-postmist1·ess. Letters arrive from Bath D.L. Manor house, Mells, Frome Wall Letter Boxes.-Charlton & Kilmersdon Pit Cottages Marked thus * receive letters through *Candy Herbert . Edward, farmer, Knox Edward, land agent to Lord Radstock, Bath. Tyning farm Hylton Candy Sarah Davis & Bessie(Misses), Marshall Albert Edward, head gar- PRIVATE RESIDENTS. dairy farmers. Ames Lane farm dener to Lord Hylton J .P Edgell Arthur, Old School house *Candy Wait. T. dairy frmr.Charlton *Matthews· Fred, haulier, Charlton *Gaite · Albert Joseph, Prospect ho. Candy W alton Thomas, grocer Read Samuel, plumber Charlton Carpenter Herbert Frank, farmer, *Richards S. head gardener to Hugh Hylton Lord J.P. Ammerdown park; Orange farm Johnston esq. J.P & 21 Manchester square W I & Coles John, haulier, Chambro hill *Rivers Erne:st A. J. grocer, Haydon Carlton club SW I, London (postal address, Holcombe, Bath) Seymour Tom, Jolliffe Arms P.H *Johnston Hugh, Charlton house Cox Emily Theresa (Mrs.), draper *Watts Theodore Simon, beer retlr. Knox Edward Cradock Fanny Maria (Mrs.), da.iry Charlton Norton Rev. Cecil Grafton M.A. farmer, Lowerfield farm West Herbert Francis, dairy farmer, (vicar), Vicarage Davis John, fa.rmer, Hackmead farm Manor farm Southern Charles, Huish house (postal address, Holcombe, Bath) *Willcox Edward, farmer, Green'8 Garrett Tom James, wheelwright farm, Charlton COMMERCIAL. Gillard Waiter, haulier Willcox Frederick Edgar, farm bailiff Candy Albert Tom, dairy farmer, *Kilmersdon Colliery Co. Ltd. (Kil· to Lord Hylton J.P Walton farm mersdon pit) (A. E. Chivers, sec. ; Woolford John Chas. boot & shoe ma *Candy Hy. Davis,farmer,Haydon frm Charles Southern, manager) KILMINGTON parish, originally in Somerset, has Orders Confirmation (No. 3) Act, 1896" (59 and 6o been transferred to Wilts, under the provisions uf Section Vict. c. 75), as from September 30, 1896, Order made .'54 of the "Local Government Act, 1888" (SI and 52 March 23, 1896, numbered P. ,1,226, and will be found Vict. c. 41), by "Local Government Board's Provisional , in Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire. KILTON-with-LILSTOCK is a parish formed j station on the West Somerset branch of the Great March zsth, 1886, by Lucal Government Board Order Western railway and 12 north-west from Bridgwater. The 19,063, by adding to the parish of Lilstock part of the church of St. Nicholas, entirely rebuilt in 1862, is an parish of Kilton, the remainder being amalgamated with edifice of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular Stringston and Holford, the new parish so formed being styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an known as Kilton-with-Lilstock; it is in the Bridgwater embattled western tower containing 4 bells, one of which, division of the county, hundred of Williton and Free- dated 1626, has the inscription, "Sancte Ricarde, ora pro manors, Williton petty sessional division, union and nobis": there is a handsome rood sereen and an ancient county court district, rural deanery of Quant<Jxhead, stDne font: the communion. plate includes two silver archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. chalices dated 1574 (Lilstock) and 1573 (Kilton) respec tively: there are sittings for 155 persons. The register KII.TON is a small village, I mile from the coast of dates from the year 1683. The living is a vicarage. with Bridgwater Bay, 7 miles east-north-east from Williton the rectory of Lilstock annexed by Order in Council 1st .