• 182 BIO!NOLLIB, SOMERSET. [KELLY'S • Post & T. Offioe.-Arthur Jennings, sub-postmaster. Wall Letter Box at Halsway Letters through Taunton. Stogumber is the nearest Children her~ attend the schools of St. A.udries, Samp- money order office, 2! miles distant ford Brett & Stogumber Marked thus * letters arrive through Lyddon William, W oolston Gadd John, mason Crowcombe. Martin Rev. Cecil M.A. Ohilcombe ho *Bill HerbHt, farmer, Chapman PRIVATE RESIDENTS. *Rowcliffe Wm. Chas. Halsway manor Combe farm Anstruther Major 0. J. The Grange, Jernings Arthur, Post office Woolston , .COMMERCIAL, *Milton Edmund, frmr. Paradise frm *Ohannell Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Mose- Ballantyne Thorne, farmer Morris on J ames Henry, carpenter, ley, Thorncombe *Barber John, farmer, Upcott farm joiner, wheelwrt. painter, & aparts Charlewood Hy. Clement, Dashwoods Bussell William, chauffeur to W. C. Parsons Henry Ohas. farmer, Newton Cogan Mrs Rowcliffe esq. Qak cot. Halsway Slade Waiter, New inn Couch Rev. Albert Edward B.A. *Ooles Albert, farm bailiff to W. C. Tapp Robert, farm bailiff to H. A. (vicar), Vicarage Rowcliffe esq. Crowcombe Thomas esq. Yard farm Grandfield Richard, J enkins house Evans Ernest, apartm.ents *Welsher Edward, bead gardener te .Greswell Charles Herbert, Wayfield j Ford Sydney Albert,farmer, Wools ton W. C. Rowcliffe esq Hathway Misses, The Cottage 1 moor BIDDISHAM is a parish and village on the river Axe, and a further sum of £2oo has since been expended in and on the road from Bristol to Bridgwater, 4 miles other improvements : there are sittings for So persons. west from Axbridge stat,ion on the Yatton and Well.s The register dates from the year 1626. The living is a branch, and 4! east from Brent Knoll station on the rectory, net yearly value £230, including 14 acres of Bristol and Exeter section of the main line of the glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of London, Great Western railway, in the Weston-super-Mare and held since 1897 by the Rev. Frank Edward Walton parliamentary division, Bempstone hundred, Axbridge ll.D. of Durham University, presented by the Crown. petty sessional division, union and county court dis- The rectory house was built in 1858. The Ecclesiastical trict, rural deanery of Burnham, archdeaconry of Commissioners, who are lords of the manor, and Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of Frederick L. Simmons esq. are the principal land­ St. John the Baptist is a building of ·stone, in the Early uwners. The soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The land is English style, consisting of chancel, na~ and a western chiefly in pasture. The acreage is 572; assessable value, · tower containing 4 bells: the font is Norman, and there [930; the population in 1911 was 117. is a handsome carved Jacobean pulpit: the stained east J1etters by messenger from Axbridge arrive at 8.5 a.m. window was the joint gift of Mrs. Hunt and the Dean & 4 p.m. Axbridge is the nearest money order office and Chapter of Wells, and in the chancel is a .small & Weare the nearest telegraph office, I~ miles distant. stained window presented by the pupils of the Rev. Wall Boxes.-In the village and at "New Moon " P. V. M. Filleul .M.A. rector (1858-96): the church was Public Elementary School (mixed), for 50 children; restored in 1863, and the tower in 1878, at a cost of £6oo, Miss Mabel Pratt, mistress Walton Rev. Frank Edward B.D. Body Emest Edwd. farmer, Crab hole House William 0. farmer, The Elms- (rector), The Rectory . Counsell Charles Henry, farmer Spratt George, farmer COMMERCIAL. Gardner Le"is, New Moon P.H . Tilley Tom, farmer, Manor farm Gibbs Mary (Mrs.) & Joseph, farmers Vincent Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper' Body Edmund, farmer, Crab hole Hawkins Matthew, farmer BINEGAR ·is a parish on the e.ast of the Mendip Messrs. C. Dalley and Co. Limited and Messrs. Read Hills·, with a station on the Somerset and Dorset Exten- and Son. The soil is loamy; subsoil, limestone. The sion railway, and is 4~ miles north from Shepton Mallet land is chiefly in pasture. The acreage is 1,197; rate­ . and 5 north-east from Wells, in the Wells division able value,· [4,195; the population in 19i1 was 39r of the county, hundred of Wells Forum, Wells petty ses- in the civil and 384 in the ecclesiastical parish (which sional division, union of Shepton Mallet, county court comprises parts of Binegar and St. Cuthbert Out Wells di11trict of Wells, rural deanery of Midsomer Norton, arch- civil parishes). deaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of the Holy Trinity, rebuilt, with the exception GURNEY SLADE is a hamlet and small village, half of the tower, in 1g59, is a building of Mendip lias, in a mile east of the church, and is in the parishes of the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of one Binegar and Ashwick. bay, small aisle, south porch and an embattled western In this hamlet is the Downside Wa.ter Works Pump­ tower containing 3 bells : the tower, built about 15oo, ing Station, the property of the Downside Abbey _is very plain, but of good workmanship; under the Authorities, for the supply of water to the Urban Dis­ battlement of its western face is an ancient stone trict Council of Midsomer Norton and the Rural District figure, supposed to be emblematic of the Holy Trinity: Councils of Glutton and Shepton Mallet. The water is a new organ was provided in 1894 and the church pumped from a well, a bore hole sunk zoo feet into reseated in 1903: there are sittings for 130 persons. mountain limestone. The reservoir is situated at Stock­ The register dates from the year 1720. The living is a hill, and has a capacity of 6oo,ooo gallons. rect-ory, net yearly value [433, including 44 acres of Letters through Bath via Gurney Slade, which is th& glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath . nearest money order & telegraph office. Letter Bo:ll and Wells, and held since 1917 by the Rev. Julian at Binegar, cleared week days only Josias Ouningham M.A. of Queen's University, Ireland: there is a list of incumbents from 1297. A large horse Public Elementary School, erected in 1857, enlarged in fair is held .on the first Wednesday after Whit Sunday. I874 & again in 1897• for the parishes of Emborough & The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor Binegar; it will bold 120 children; William Cecil and chief landowners. There are two extensive road Wright, master stone quarries in this parish worked respectively by Railway Station, Herbert 'Lintern, station master BINEGAR. Flower Charles, farmer, Church farm GURNE·Y SLADE. Cuningham Rev. Julian Josias M.A. Moon George, farmer, Wintertop COMMERCIAL. (rector), Rectory Read & Son, quarry owners Chard Henry, farmer, Stone edge James Charles, Portway house Reakes Aubrey, farmer, Whitchurch Downside Water Works Pumping farm (letters through Ston Easton, Station (G.' B. Hicks, manager) COMMERCIAL. Bath) (postal address, Stratton-on-the- Selway Ohas. farmer, Marchant's hill Fosse, near Bath) Britt'ln Ernest, farmer, Nobsbury Stone Arthur, Hollow Hole farm Emery John (Mrs.), shopkeeper Cottle Wm. farmer, Shores Hill farm Western Counties Public House Trust Gait Oliver A. miller (water),Gurney Dalley C. & Co. Ltd. quarry owners, Co. Limited, Horse & Jockey P.H. Shde mill tar spraying & tar macadam con­ (H. J. Carter, manager) Hobbs Henry, blacksmith tractors. TA "Dalley, Binegar."j I StP-vens Be a trice (Miss), school See advertisement I White John S. coach & carriage bldr BISHOPS HULL WITHOUT is a parish and vil­ tains a number of good residences ; the old parish lage on the road from Taunton to Wellington, I~ miles extended to the centre of the town of Taunt-on, includ­ west from Taunton and 6 north-east from Wellington, in ing a handsome suburb, the Castle and Castle Green, the Taunton parliamentary division, hundred of Taunton and the district known by the name of Tangier, but by Dean, Taunton petty sessional division, union and county Local Government Board Order, No. x8,412, which came · court district, rural deanery of Taunton, archdeaconry of into operation March 25, x885, all that part of Bishops Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells. The parish con- Hull parish within the Taunton municipal borough was .