DIRECTORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. C.ARB..!MPTON • 151 and Wells. The church of St. Mary is a building of stone is lord of the manor, Philip Pleydell-Bouverie esq. D.L., J.P. in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north and the Earl of Cavan P.c., D.L., J.P. The soil is red clay; porch, and an embattled western tower containing a clock the subsoil is sandstone and limestone. The chief crops aro and 6 bells : the east window-is a memorial to the Rev. wheat and barley, with a good portion of pasture. The area James Burt, a former vicar d. 1825: at the east end of the is 3,930 acres; rateable value, £9,088; the population in south aisle, called the "Trinity aisle," are memorial win­ x88x was 1,392. dows to Maria (A' Court), wife of the late Hon. Philip Play­ dell Bouverie, d. Nov. 27, x862,pnd to Constance (Pleydell­ Edstock and Beere form a hamlet, situated 2 miles Bouverie), wife of Capt. the Hon. Alexander Campbell, who north-west, belonging to the Bristol Merchant Venturers; was accidentally killed Jan. 24, 1887: the church was the population in x88x was 23. restored in 1885, and has sittings for 300 persons. The PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, register dates from 1563. The Uving is a vicarage, average Cannington.-Samuel Cavill, postmaster. Letters through tithe rent-charge £44• net yearly value£ 169, with residence, by mail cart, arrive at 4.32 a. m. & 4·5 p.m. ; in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held since dispatched at 10.30 a.m. & g.x8 p.m 1865 by the Rev. Ernest Bristow B. A. of University College, Durham. Here is a Catholic chapel, built in x831, and ScHoOLS :- . dedicated to the Holy Name. There is a Congregational National (mixed), erected in • 182:;), for 279 children ; chapel. The cemetery, one acre in extent, situated a little average attendance, II5; & endowed with £3 12s. 6d. south of the village on an elevated spot, was formed in 1869 yearly; Thomas Henry Martin, master; Miss Emily at a cost of £x,ooo, and is planted with evergreen and other Rooke, infants' mistress shrubs : a portion is set apart for Catholics: it is under the The West of & South Wales Industrial School for control of a Burial Board of 9 members. There are chari- Catholic boys (certified November 17, 1868), occupies the ties of £333 yearly value, left by Mr. Henry Rogers, distri- ancient mansion of Lord Cli:fford, who gave it to the buted between 30 poor aged people; other charities of about institution, which is under the management of Mgr. Canon £20 yearly value are distributed amongst the poor. Rogers Clarke D. D. of Clifton: the school is certified for 100 boys, almshouses, founded in 1672~ and repaired and otherwise and is now (x889) full: within the building is a chapel, improved in x887, are for 12 poor women; at present only containing a memorial altar-piece & window to the late 9 women receive the full benefits, the number being regu- Lord Cli:fford of Chudleigh; the Very Rev. Canon Charles lated according to the funds. Brymore, the seat of Philip H. Kennard M.A. is the priest; Waiter Sheppard, supt Pleydell-Bouverie esq. J.P. is situated in a finely-wooded park of 2 50 acres, and was the birthplace and residence of Catholic (mixed & infants), for 100 children; M·erage the well-known John Pym M.P. for 'favistock, x625_40, and attendance, 86; John Linsley, master; Miss A. Craw- one of the five members demanded by Charles I. to be ford, infants' mistress delivered to him as traitors : he died Dec. 8, 1643. The CARRIERS TO BRIDGWATER.-Several pass through, including principal landowners are Lord Clifford, of Chudleigh, who . Aplin's Royal Mail omnibus, daily Cannington. Board John, farmer Loveridge John Dare, beerret. &farrier PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Brown James, farmer, Chilton Trivett Lovibond Alfred Horace, farmer, Ash- Arundell Mrs. Cannington house Bryer James, carpenter down farm Bristow Rev. Ernest M.A. Vicarage Bucknell James, farmer, Gurney street Pain William, butcher Carey Rev. Jabez [Congregational] Burnell Jesse, farmer, Rises farm, Palfrey Charles, King's Head P.H ., Carter Mrs. Woodbine villa Blackmoor lane Parkman William, beer ret. Churcll:'st Chappell Capt. James, Clifford lodge Burnell Robert, dairyman Parks William Henry, grocer, draper &c Crocker Mrs. Ruscombe cottage Cavill Joseph, beer ret. Blackmoor lane Poole George, farmer, Clay hill Evered Charles, Longthorns Cavill SI. boot & shoe ma. & post office Richards Thomas, dairyman, D.ecoy Hambry Ernest Helstone, The Acacias Cemetery (William Henry White, clerk Rood James, farmer, Withiel lngram Rev. Alfred Winnington M.A. to the burial board) RoweAnn(Mrs.),farmer,Denman'sfarm [curate] Criddle John, farmer, Higher Oatley· SeymourRd.Chas.Reed,farmer,Rodway Johnson Mrs Cracker E. S. (Mrs.) & Sons, farmers Shepherd James, farmer, Park farm K ennar d Very R ev. C anon ehar I es H . & timber merchants Shovney Austin, carpenter & J'oiner M.A. [Catholic], Court house Eades Richard Wm. Blue Anchor P.H Somers Joseph, beer retailer Knight Misses, Brooklands Edney John, blacksmith TamblingSophia(Mrs. ),cooper&shopkpr Landor Mrs. The Grange Groves Thomas, grocer Tucker Richard, carpenter & machinist Pleydell-BouverieHy.HalesJ.P.Brymore Hembry Brothers, maltsters & corn Tucker SI. wheelwright, Blackmoor la Pleydell-Bouv-eriePhilipD.L.,J.P.Brymre merchants; & at Bridgwater White HenryPhilip,farmer,Oatley farm Poole Waiter Jsph. H.uscombe,Belvedere HouseThos.carpentr.&wheelwgt.Putnell White William, farmer, clerk to the Shepherd Mrs. Ashford House William, farmer burial board & registrar of births & Hurford Chas.farmer,KnoleGreen farm deaths for No. I ::~ub-district of Bridg- COMMERCIAL. Hurley Samuel, farmer water union; Knapp farm Beer Robert, saddler Hurley Thomas, shopkeeper Williams William, tailor Biffen l''dk. farmer,Crossmoor meadows Kelland William, blacksmith Brown John, traction engine & thrashing Kerton Charles, farmer, Cook's mill Edstock & Beere. machine owner &c. & implement Kerton Francis, farmer, Putnell Davey Thomas, farmer, Beere farm agent, Agency house; attends Duke of IKidner John, farmer, Blackmoor lane HawkinsSl. Tucker, farmer ,Edbrook frm Monmouth P.H. Bridgwater on wed Larcombe Wm. baker, draper & grocer is a parish and village, situated about Fownes-Luttrell esq. of Dunster Castle, and held since 1872 a mile from the coast of the Bristol channel and on the road by the Rev. William Philip Michell B.A. of Emmanuel Col­ from Williton to Minehead, 5 miles west by north from lege, Cambridge. A vicarage house was erected in 1875, Williton, 2 south-east from Dunster station, and I south- the funds being supplied from Queen Anne's Bounty. There west from Blue Anchor station on the West and is a small Wesleyan chapel, erected about 1:830, with a day Minehead branch of the Great Western railway, in the school adjoining. Hole's charity of £13 98· 6d. yearly is for Western division of the county, hundred of Carhampton, blankets, and Escott's charity of £1o yearly is partly for Dunster petty sessional division, union and county court the support of a Sunday school at the hamlet of Rodhuish, district of Williton, Wiveliscombe district of the rural dean- and partly for the poor. Marshwood, an ancient structure ery of and archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath at Carhampton Lower Side, and now occupied as a farm and Wells. The church of St. John the Baptist IS an ancient house, has some curious figures over the entrance. George building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of Fownes-Luttrell esq. D.L., .J.P. of Dunster Castle, is lord of fhancel, double nave of four bays, south aisle, south porch, the manor, and the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Dyke Acland and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, and con- bart. P.c., F.R.G.s., D.L., .J.P. of Killerton, Exeter, Devon, taining a clock and 6 bells: a very handsome screen divides are the chief landowners. The soil is loamy, clayey, and a the nave from the chancel, and there is a tablet to Sarah tight, close, heavy soil, -calculated for whea.t and beans; Trevelyan, of Knoll, ob. x667: the church was restored in and the subsoil is various. The crops are mostly wheat, 1862-3, the whole of the north wall being rebuilt and vestry barley, beans and excellent mangold and other roots. The added, and the interior re-seated, chiefly at the cost of the acreage is 5,199; rateable value, £4,044; the population in Luttrell family, of Dunster Castle: the tower was rebuilt in x88I was 645. 187o-x by the late Miss Luttrell, of Dunster Castle, and 2 Parish Clerk, Arthur Windsor. bells added by the Rev. Thomas Fownes Luttrell, late vicar: Acting Parish Clerk & Sexton, Jacob Farmer. an organ was placed in the church in x866: there are sit- RoDHUISH, a detached part of this parish, was amalga• tin.,<>'S for 270 persons. The registers date from 1634, but mated with Withycombe March 25, 1884. those between 1652 and 1675 are lost. The living is a PosT OFFICE.-Robert Watts, receiver. Letters from Tann- vicarage, gross yearly value from tithe rent-charge £280, ton by mail cart arrive at 6.15 a.m.; dispatched at 6.38 with residence and two acres of glebe, in the gift of G. p.m. Dunsteristhenearestmoneyorder&telegraphoffice •