322 lU.lNSBAM. . {KELLY'S Walrond Thomas, house agent, see Jrames & Walrond Willcox Charles, builder, Colenso house, Bath hill Watts Geo. inspector l)f nuisances, Holnest, St.Keyna rd Willett George Gilmore Drake M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, &. White Ernest, ~oal merchant, see Cantle & White medical officer to the Isolation Hospital, Millward Whitfield Frederick Charles, poultry farmer, Chewton house, Bristol road Whittuck Francis Gerald, solicitor, & clerk to school Williams Charles, milk retailer, High street attendance committee, to Rural District Willoughby Brothers, grocers, Temple street Council & to -commissioners of taxes for the Keynsham Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited (agency) (Arthur union, The Avenue E. Tidmarsh, manager), High street; draw on London Wiggins E. & Sons, painters, High street County & Westminster Bank Limited, 4'r Lothbury,. Wilkins James, baker & confectioner, High street London E C Willcox John & Sons, builders, Bath hill Withers James E. draper, High street

KIL:MERSDON is a very extensive parish and head of CHARLTON is a hamlet, half a mile west, and has a a petty sessional division, embracing, besides the village Primitive Methodist chapel, built in r86r. Charlton of its cwn name, the hamlets of Coleford, Charlton or House, the property of Lord Hylton, and the residence Charleton, Kilmersdon Common, Luckington, Newbury, of James Whishaw esq. is a noble mansion of stone, Highbury and Lipyeate, in .the division of the occupying a prominent position in a well-timbered park county, Kilmersdon hundred, Frome union and county of 26 acres. court district, rural deanery of , arch­ Sexton, Alfred Padfield. deaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. Kel­ mersdon is 2 miles south-east from station on JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR KII,.MERSDON the Somerset and Dorset and Great Western Tailways, PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. and r mile west-by-north from Mells Road station on the Hylton Lord, .Ammerdown park, Bath, chairman Bristol and Frome branch of the Great Western railway, • Broderip Edmund Francis esq. Fyley, Weston-super-Mare­ r2! south-south-west from Bath by rail and ro by road, Carter George esq. 9 High street, Midsomer Norton r6 south-south-east from Bristol and 7 north-west from Davy Henry Samuel esq. Somerleaze, Fro.me Frome. The church of SS. Peter' and Paul is a fine Hill Benjamin Hansford esq. The Old l'ectory, Uphill,. building of stone, chiefly erected in the I5th century but Weston-super-Mare incorporating work of the Norman period, and consists of Horner SiP John F. F., K.C.V.O., M.A.1 D.L. Manor chancel, nave of five bays, north aisle and a lofty em­ house, Mells, Fronie battled western tower in the Perpendiculal' style, with Lee William Blackstone esq. Nordley Chantry, Frome pinnacles, and containing a clock and 6 fine-toned bells ; Shore John Henry esq, B.A. Wbatley house, Frome the tower was restored and the bells rehung in 1913: in Waldegrave Earl, Chewton Priory, Bath 1879 the chancel was restored and an organ-chamber built Wickham Rev. James Douglas Clephane lL!. Manor on the south side by the late Lord Hylton, and in r88r a house, Holcombe, Bath wrought iron screen was erected ; the east window was Dlerk to the Magistrates, Percy W. D. Cruttwell, Bath filled with stained glass in 1879 as a memorial to the first street, Frome Lord Hylton, who died June r, 1876: and there are other The chairmen, for the time bein2', of the Midsomer­ memorial windows to Mrs. Box, Miss Sybil Veitch, Norton & Radstock Urban District Councils, pre ex­ daughter of the Rev. H. G. J. Veitch B.A. viear here officio magistrates r864-97, and to E. Carleton Tufnell and Honoris Mary Special & Petty Sessions for the division of Kilmersdon,. his wife, besides a number of stained windows. The comprising the parishes of lBabington, Chilcon:pton, interior was restored and reseated and the organ rebuilt Forscote, Hardington, Hemington, Holcombe, Kilmers­ in 1898: there are sittings for about 250 persons. In don, :Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Stratton-on-the­ 1900 18. triangular lych-gate was erected by Lord Hylton Fosse & , are held in the Victoria hall,. as a memorial to his father, Hedworth Hylton Jolliffe, Radstock, every second monday (except when it is a 2nd baron Hylton, who died 31 Oct. 1899· The register Bank Holiday) at 11.15 a.m. for general business, k dates from the year 1653. The living is a vicarage, net on every monday throughout the year for hearing yearly value £210, with residence, in the gift of Lord ca8es under the Summary Jurisdiction Act. Attend­ Hylton, and held since 1910 by the Rev. Cecil Grafton <~mce is given at Radstock by the clerk every monday Norton M.A. of Keble College, Oxford, who is also at n o'clock, for the purpose of taking informations, rector of Babington. Part of thi!t parish was formed issuing process &c into the ecclesiastical parish of Coleford, April 4• 1843. A new mission room, dedicated to St. Paul, was County Constabulary, James Parsons, sergeant. There erected in 1909 and will seat 75 persons. Here are is an inspector & one constable stationed at Midsomer Wesleyan Methodist and Primitive Methodist chapels. Norton & a sergeant & two constables at Radstock, & The Kilmersdon Colliery Company Limited have a a police constable at each of the following places : ~ large colliery near the north-west boundary of thl:l Coleford, Chilcompton, Falkland & Welton parish, employing '8 large number of hands. Ammer­ ' down, the seat of Lord Hylton J.P. which stands SCHOOL. within a park 4 miles in circumference, is a mansion · in the Classic style, from a design by James Wyatt, Endowed SchOol.-In 1719 the Rev. Thomas Shute gavE! a and commands extensive views of the surrounding rent-charge of [20 towards the support of a school for country; in the paTk, on e. site 6ob feet above the 40 children, &i Mrs. Mary Freeman's gift, with Bayn- sea level, stands a column, r5o feet high, rising from a ton's & Sheppard's charity, bring in £7 12s. 8d.; tfuis platform relieved with casts from antique statues and benefaction was further increased by an annuity of £2o, containing an iron staircase: the erection of this -struc- given by the late Col. John Twyford Jolliffe; Carter's ture as a memorial to Thomas Samuel .Jolliffe esq. a charity providing about £x 6s. 8d. yearly, also' l former possessor of this estate, is explained in inscrip- Fent-charge of £2o on Lower Field in perpetuity. In tions in Latin, French and English, on the different r8g8, by consent of the Charity Commissioners, this compartments of the plinth; the column is open to the school was amalgamated with the former National public by orde:r. Lord Hylton is lord of the manor and school, which was erected 1850 &i enlarged r8g8, & is principal landowner, and also impropriatot of the great now .ealled Shute's k Jolliffe's school; it has accom~ tithes. There is every variety of soil, from stone brash modation for 200 children (mixed & infants); average and loam to 4eavy clay; the subsoil is various, but coal a.ttenda.nce, 125; Herbert William Long, ma~ter abounds, and in some cases is found at great depth. Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Miss Ellen Florence Woolford, The land is in pasture for dairy purposes. The area of sub-postmistress. Box closes at 11.40 a.m. & 7 p.m. the parish is 3,552 acres; rateable value, [9,879; the LetteTs arrive from Bath at 6.45 a.m. & 2.50 p.m.; population in 19n was 2,204 in the civil and 867 in the on sundays letten arrive at 7.50 a.m. ; box cleared at ecclesiastical parish. 7.5o a.m Under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act, Wall Letter Boxes at Charlton cleared at 7.20 a.m. & 1882,'' a detached part of Holcombe, in Shepton Malle1 1.45 &i 7.30 p.m. week days only & at; Kilmersdon Pit union, has been transferred to this parish for cil'il Cottages cleared at 7.40 a.m. & 2.25 & 7·55 p.m. purposes. week days only

Marked thus * receive letters through Knox Edward J.P COMMERCIAL. Radstock, Bath. Nicol St. John, Old School house PRIVATE RE<;IDENTS. Norton Rev. Cecil Grafton M.A. Candy Albert Tom, dairy farmer, Batey George E. Old vicarage (vicar), Vicarage Walton farm Hylton Lord J.P. Ammerdown park; Walton J. Coulthard, Huish house *Candy Hy. Davis,farmer,Haydon frm & 2r Manchester square W & Carl-\ *Whishaw J ames, Charlton house *Candy Herbert Edward, farmer, ton club S W, LoP don Tyning farm