DIRECTORY.] SOl\iERSET. CBIPSTABLE. 207 court district, rural deanery of Martock, archdeaconry applied to the support of the school. Viscount Port of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church man is lord of the manor and chief landowner. 'l'he of St. Mary is a building of stone in the PeTpendicular soil is sand, loam and clay; the subsoil is clay. The style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south chief crops are wheai, barley and oats, and some of the 1 porch and an embattled western tower containing 5 land is in pasture. The area is 1,360 acres; rateable bells: the chancel underwent some repairs in 1884, and value, [2,o68; population in 19n, 381. in 1893 the church was reseated and a vestry and orgar1 Parish Clerk, Edward Slade. chamber added at a cost of £6oo, and affords sittings for 200 persons. The register dates from the year 1647- Post Office. Jesse Andrews, sub-postmaster. Letters The living is a rectory and vicarage, net yearly value from Yeovil arrive at 7.25 a.m. & 4-.20 p.m. week £135, with 38! acres of glebe, in the gift of the Lord days; dispatehed at 10.10 a.m. & 5.40 p.m.; sundays, Chancellor, and held since 1913 by the Rev. Basil arrive 7.15 a.m.; dispatched 9.40 a.m. West Coker, Grafton Richings M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. I! miles distant, is the nearest money order & tele The great tithes belong to Corpus Christi College, Cam graph office bridge, the re-ctor having all the ancient glebe land and Public Elementary School (mixed), with residence, bu'ilt sharing with the college the repairs of the chanceL in 1876, for 91 children; average attendance, 63; Mrs. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. There is an ancient charity Matilda Ganden, mistress consisting of land, producing about £30 yearly, part of which is given in eoal to t.he poor, and the remainder Carrier.-Gemge .Axe, t-o Yeovil, daily Richings Rev. Basil Grafton M.A. i Hallett George, builder Taylor Waiter, farmer, Broad Vicarage Pearre W1lliam Arth. Roberts, farmer Thomas Joseph, dairyman COMMERCIAL. Pitt George Thomas, cottage farmer, Vagg Matilda (Mrs.), shopkeeper Andrews .Jesse, baker, Post office Barrow& Hill Western Counties Public House 'frust Axe George, carrier Poole George, farmer Co. Limited Portman Arms P.H. Bartlett Thomas, farmer Rendall George, blacksmith & assis- (Herbert Green, manager) Bugg Percy, farmer, Weston farm tant overseer Young Albert, farmer, Court farm Chant Samson, poultry dealer j Shire George, builder Young Robert, farmer, Barrows farm Gould Albion, farmer Taylor George Dawe, farmer WEST CHINNOCK is a parish and village on the arrival nor dispatch on sundays. Norton-sub-Hamdon river Parrett, 3 miles north from Crewkerne station on is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 2 miles the main line of the London and South Western railway, distant in the Mid division of the county, Houndsborough, Bar- Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1833 & wick and Coker hundred, Yeovil union. Crewkerne petty considerably enlarged in 1873, for 97 -children; aver- sessional division and county court district, rural deanery age ~ttendance, 52; children from Middle Chinnock of Martock, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath attend here; Miss Laura Dutton, mistress and Wells. By Local Government Board Order 16,444, which came into operation March :24, 1884, the parishes MIDDLE CHINNOOK is a village on the river Parrett, of West Chinnock and Middle Chinnock were amalga and by Local Government Board Order I6,444, dated mated and known as West Chinnock. The church of March 24, 1884, was amalgamated with West Chinnock, St. Mary, rebuilt in 1889-90, is a building of stone in the parish to be known as West Chinnock. The church the Norman style, and consists of chancel, nave, north of St. Margaret is a building of stone, principally in the porch and a western tower containing 4- bells: there are Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, I6I sittings. The register of baptisms and burials dates nave, south porch and an embattled western tower with from the year 1678 ; marriages 1733. The living is a four small pinnacles, containing 3 bells : the church was chapelry, annexed to the rectory of Chiselborough, joint enlarged in I837 and again in 1874, when a chancel WaJS net yearly value £310, including· 52 acres of glebe, with added ; it underwent further repairs in I'875 and again residence, in the gift of the Earl of Ilchester, and held in 1887, when the transepts were rest.ored; the tower since 1904 by the Rev. Howard Smith Chesshire M.A. and porch are the only portions .of the old original of Worcester College, Oxford, who resides at Chisel church now remaining: there are sittings for 153 borough. Here is a W esleyan chapel. At the school is persons. The register dates from the year 1695. The a reading room, maintained by subscription. In I 892 living is a rectory, net yearly value £qo, including 39 the late Mrs. Sarah Woodcock, of Tree House, in this acres of glebe, wit·h residence, in the gift of the Earl parish, left the !>Urn of £2oo. free of legacy duty, to of llchester, and held since 1910 by the Rev. Waiter be invested at 2£ per Cent. Consols, the income there Winslow Aldridge. The -charities, formerly amounting from to be expended in providing coals to be given to to £1 6s. IId. yearly, are supplemented annually by the aged poor of this parish. There is also the charity further gifts by the lord of the manor: in 1892 the left by Richard Hayward esq. of The Elms, c.onsisting late Mrs. Sarah Woodcock, of West Chinnock, who died of £Ioo, invested in Consols, the interest of which is in the same year, left by will the sum of £2oo, free of distributed to the aged poor at Christmas. The Earl of legacy duty, to be invested in 2! per cent. Consols, the Ilchester is lord of the manor and chief landowner. funds arising therefrom to be expended in purchasing The soil is loam and clay; the subsoil is clay. The coals to be distributed amongst the aged poor. The chief crops are wheat, barley and pasture. The area is -population of the ecclesiastical parish in 19II was 89. 64o acres; the combined area of West and Middle Chinnock is 1,161 acres; rateable value, £2,262; the :arish Clerk, Joseph Saunders. population in 19II was 325. Letters through Mer:r-iott, Somerset, arrive at 8.30 a.m. Parish Clerk, J oseuh Mudford. & 6 p.m. week days only Post Office.-Victor George Cave, sub-postmaster. Wall Letter Box, near the church, cleared at 9.25 a.m. Letters from Merriott arrive at 7·45 a.m. & 5.20 & 6.45 p.m . .on week days only. Norton-sub-Hamdon p.m.; dispatched at 9·35 a.m. & 6.55 p.m.; neither is the nearest money order & telegraph office WEST CHINNOCK. Hopkin.s James William, dairyman Hopkins Edward Frank L. The Elms Hussey Tom, farmer, Manor farm MIDDLE CHINNOOK. Patten Levi, Hillside Langdon George, grocer Aldridge Rev. Waiter Winslow (rec- COMMERCIAL. Lister John, shoe maker, Quarry frm tor), Rectory Andrews .Albert, market gardener Masters Geo. Saml.farmr.Eastfield fm Parsons Col. Arthur Dewar, The Bicknell Thomas Perrin, farmer, Bar- Mudford Joseph, carpenter Chinnocks lands farm Shire .Albert James Bartlett, estate Clarke JO
•