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534 WINCANTON. S()MERSET. [KELL'Y'S

Wincanton Hospital (Charles Wright Edwards F.R.C.S. Wincanton Races Co. Limited (W4 T. Goodfellow, ~c,) i Edin. surgeon; William W. Fenton B.A., M.D., B.Ch. registered office, South street. T A " Chases " Dublin~ anresthetist; C. W. Edwards & F, 0. Guy Wincanton Rural District Council Water Works Fowler, hon. secs. ; Miss M, A. Dennant, sister in Wincanton Rural District Isolation Hospital (William charge), 18 High street Waiter Fenton B.A., M.D. B.Ch.Dub. medical officer) Wincanton Laundry Co. (Blalre & Goodfellow, proprie­ Wincanton Social Club (William Parham, hon. sec.), 2 tors), South road High street Wincanton Liberal Association (George A. Perkins & W. Wincanton Temperance Society (Rev. H.C.Field,hon.sec) H. Benjafield, joint hon. secs) Woodcock Charles Henry, coach builder, 8 High street Wiucanton Market Co. Limited• (F. Thirlwall Fowler, chairman of direetors ; J u. Oliver Cash, sec. ),5 High st is a parish and village, 4 miles south-south­ soil is sandy ; subsoil, ironstone. The crops are roots, east from Flax Bourron station on the main line of the but the land is chiefly pasture. The area is 3,340 Great Western railway, about 7 miles south-south-west acres ; rateable value, £8,179; the population in I9II from , in the Northern division o.f the county, was: civil, 816; ecclesiastical, 760 (which comprises hundred of Hartcliffe, petty sessional division of Long parts of Winford, and: civil Ashton, union of Long Ashton, county court district of parishes). Bristol, rural deanery of Chew, archdeaconry of Bath and By Local Government Board Order 17,340, March 25, diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary and 1885, part o.f the tithing of Regilbury was transferred from St. Peter is a building of stone in the Gothic style, con­ to Winford; by another Order 14•992• :March 24, sisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a western tower of 1884, Henmarsh to Nempnett Thrubwell; by Order 16,500. ancient date, with pierced parapet and pinnacles, contain­ Barrow Common and another detached part of Winford in~ a clock and 6 bells : a new organ was erected in to Dundry, and under the provisions of the "Divided 18&8 : the east window is a memorial to Mrs. Tripp, Parishes Act, 1882" (45 and 46 Vict. c. 58), Strode wife of the Rev. Henry Tripp M.A. rector 1858-96: the Farm was transferred from Nempnett Thrubwell to church, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in Winford. 179tl, and repaired & reseated in 186B, and in .1909 the tower was restored and a new clock pr0vided at a cost RIDGE HILL, 2 miles south, is a hamlet. of [360: there are sittings for 232 persons. The register FELTON COMMON HILL is an ecclesiastical parish dates from the year 1655. The living is a rectory, net formed from Winford and will be found yearly value [420, with residence, and 108 acres of under a separate heading. glebe, in the gift of Worcester College, Oxford, and held Sexton, William York. since 1903 by the Rev. John Richard Willdnson M.A. of that college. St. James' chapel of ease, in the Post Office. Arthur Charles Read, sub-postmaster. hamlet of Ridge Hill, was erected in 1866. Here is a Letters through Bristol arrive at 7.15 a.m. & 4.20 Baptist chapel. Elton's charity of £64 yearly is for p.m. ; dispatched at 7·3o a.m. & 6.25 p.m.; no bread and clothing; B. Godwin's, £3 yearly, for bread; delivery on sundays. The nearest money order & A. Godwin's, of £9 yearly, for school prizes and bread; telegraph office is at , 3 miles distant Daw's, £7 yearly, for aged poor and school; the poor's Letter Boxes.-Winford Manor, cleared at 8.45 a.m. & Paddock of about one acre, produces £2 ws. yearly, of 4·30 p.m.; Ridge Hill, 9·40 a.m which 7s. 6d. is for one sermon, and the remainder is Public Elementary Schools:- distributed in money. Here are iron mines. Winford Winford (mixed), built in 1847, for 140 children; Manor, the seat of Capt. William Cory Reward Bell, is average attendance, 112; Ernest William Elworthy, an ancient mansion, standing in splendidly laid out master grounds, with a fine entrance drive. Capt. W. C. H. Ridge Hill (mixed), built in 1879, for 50 children; Bell is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The average attendance, 26 ; Mrs. Fear, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hutchins Samuel, farmer, Ridgehill Read James, gardener to Capt. W. Bell Capt. William Cory Reward, Keedwell Rester (Mrs.), farmer, C. H. Bell Winford manor Ridgehill Redman James, farmer King Mrs. Waterloo villa Keedwell James, farmer, Ridgehill Stark Frank, farmer Wilkinson Rrv. John Richard M.A. King Charlotte (Mrs.), farmer,Ridge- Stevens Charles, farmer, Strode The Rectory hill Stevens William, farmer Lodge George, farmer Tovey Hy. (Mrs.), butcher & shopkp:r COMMERCllL. Lovell Misses, farmers, Kentshire frm Tripp George, farmer, Oldhill Ball Feli:x, blacksmith & shopkeeper Luton William,farmer(postal address, Veater Ernest, farmer Batts George W. poultry farmer, ) Vining William, farmer, Ridgehill Southmead Maggs Sidney, farmer, Strode Weaver Albert, farmer, Littleton Brimble Jn.frmr.Mead farm,Littleton Marshall Arthur J. farmer Weaver Albert J. farmer, Ridgehill Bull Albert George, beer retailer Marshall Francis, farmer, Ridgehill Weaver Isaac, farmer, Hounsley farm Butt Wesley J. farmer, Winford court Masters Harold W. wheelwright Wedlake Benjamin, boot maker Chancellor Thomas, farmer, Littleton Moss Henry John, farmer, Ridgehill Wedlake Frank, farmer, Upton farm Chorley Arthur E. shopkeeper Ogborne John, farmer, Old hill West of & South Wales Var- Croker Waiter, grocer Patch Wm.S.beer ret-.,hay dlr.&farmr nish Co Durston Thomas, farmer, Ridgehill Pearce Benjamin, farmer, Ridgehill Williams Albert, baker Evans Albrrt, farmer Pearce Benjamin, farmer, Strode Williams George, farmer Evans Lucy (Mrs.), farmer Pearce Ernest, farmer, Ridgehill Williams Gilbert, farmer, Regilbury Fear Ernest, farmer & blacksmith, Pearce Job, hay dealer Williams James, farmer Ridg-e hill Pearce Martha (Mrs.), farmr.Ridgehll Winstone Edwn.Prince ofWaterloo P.H Field Ht>nrv W. farmer, Strode Pearce Thomas, farmer Worle Frederick, farmer Gadd Charles, farmer Perkins .Arthur, farmer, Ridgehill Worle Waiter, mine proprietor Halliday Alfred, wheelwright RPad Arthur Charles, shopkeept'r, Young Tom, farmer & assist.overseer Hobbs Waiter J. farmer Post office WINSCOMBE is a parish and village, on the north­ a cost of £"185: the clock in the tower was given in eastern side of the a.nd on the Bristol and 1902 by Mrs. Edmunds, of Kildare, as a memorial to Bridgwater road, with two stations on the Cheddar Valley the late W. H. Edmunds esq.: there are mural tablets branch of the Great Western railway, 130 miles from to the Knollis family, one of whom was killed at the London and 2 north-west from Axbridge, in the Wells head of his regiment at Guadaloupe, at the attack on division of the county, hundred of Winterstoke, Ax­ that island, then held by the French, in 1794; many bridge petty sessional division, union and county court flf the windows are stained, and include one erected in district, rural deanery of Locking, archdeaconry of Wells r897, to the Rev. J. A. Yatman, and anothe:r, placed and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. James, in 1903 to Montague Follett, who fell during the Boer standing on the slope of a hill, is a large and elegant war : the reredos, erected in 1908, is a memorial to the building of stone, in the Pirpendicular style, consisting of late Rev. R. F. Follett M.A. vicar here 1863-95: in chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, nurth porch and an em­ 1863 the church was thoroug-hly restored and the battled tower with pierced parapet and pinnacles, and chancel .reibuilt: there are sittings for 400 persons-: containing 8 bells, -six of which were rehung in 1878, the churchyard, in which there is a remarkably Jarge and again in a new cage in 1897, at a cost of about and beautiful yew tree. commands extensive views of the £2oo, and in 1903 T. H. Fry esq. a former resident surrounding country ; in 1908 the churchyard was gave two more bells to complete the octave; the belfry enlarged. The register dates from the year 1658. The has a groined roof : the tower was repaired in 1912 at living is a vicarage, net yearly value £220, with resi-