DIRECTORY.] SOMERSET. NETHER STOWEY. 411 \ PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Horler John, farmer, Old Down farm (letters through Emborough, Bath) Bolderston Rev. George Norman Candy Herbt.Jn.frmr. Up. Lodge frm James Mark, farmer, Home fa.rm (vicar), Vicarage Chard George, farmer Roberts Alfred, beer retailer Hippisley Mr11. lva.n, Clare ball Doman James, farmer, Manor farm Salmon Laura (Mrs.), farmer (letters Hippisley Richard John Bayntun IElford Jas. Geo. shopkpr. Post office through Emborough, Bath) O.B.E., D.L.,J.P. Ston Easton park !Flower John Henry & Ernest Charles, Shorey J ames, Old Down inn, & far­ J ames Mark J .P. Home farm farmers, Cliff farm mer, Old Down (letters through Mountsteven Col. Francis Render Gait J. & Son, builders Emborou~h, Bath) O.M.G., J.P. Oddgest 1 Horler Ann (Miss), draper Wareha.m William, farmer STONEY STR.A.TTON, see Evercreech. STOWELIL is a. pari11b, I mile west from Temple tenants: part of the church plate dates from 1574: Combe Junction station on the South Western and Somer- there are 120 sittings. The register dates from the set and Dorset railways, and 1! miles north from Milborne year 1745. The living is a discharged rectory, net Port station on the London and South Western railway, yearly value £150, including 30 acres of glebe and 4 south-by-west from Wincanton, in the Wells division residence, in the gift of Lieut.-Col. Roger Marriott­ of the county, hundred of Horethorne, petty eessional Dodington, and held since rgr6 by the Rev. Thomas division, union and county court district of Wincanton, Ernest Gatehou~;e L.Tb. of Durham University, who i~ rural deanery of Milborne Port, archdeaconry of Wells also rector of and resides at North Cheriton. Lieut.-Col. and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary Roger Maniott-Dodington is lord of the manor ai1d Magdalene was rebuilt on the site of an older church chief landowner. The soil is stone brash; the subsoil in the rsth century,. but of this structure only the is clay and limestone. The crops are wheat, barley and tower arch and the bell turret remail\; the tower was ' oats, but the land' is mostly in pasture. The area is partly rebuilt in 1748. The. church was ,rebuilt, with 932 acres; rateable value, £2,102; the population in the exception of the tower, m rgr3, at a cost of about I9II was 81. £1,ooo, and is a building of stone in the Perpendicular Letters through Sherborne. The nearest money order & style, consisting of chancel, nave, porch, vestries and telegraph office is at Temple Combe, mile distant a western tower containing 3 bells, recast in 18 IS : 1 there is a stained glass window, erected to the memory The children of this parish attend the school at Charl- <3f Thomas Marriott-Dodington (ob. ·r8go) by his ton Horethorne · Alston Arthur, Rectory Dodington George, farmer, Glebe Raymond Mary Emma Jane (Mrs.), , Guppy Waiter, farmer, Laycock farmer,Bugle farm (letters reeeived COMMERCIAL. tRansford Hugh Hrbt.frmr.Manor fm from Milborne Port, Sherborne) Marked thus t farm ISO acres or over. tRooper Albert, farmer Salisbury Theobald J. G. farmer tDay Frank Henry, farmer, Red ho Moorse Herbert, farmer, Church STOWEY is a small parish, 3! miles south-east from dying without heirs, left his estate tQ her: Sutton Pensford station and 2 west from Clutton station on the Court was sold in 1648 to the ancestors of- the present North Somerset branch of the Great Western railway and possessor by the Duke of Newcastle's trustees: John 9~ south ·from Bristol, in the Frome division of the Hoope·r, Bishop of Gloucester, was once concealed here county, union of Clutton, petty sessional division and during the Marian persecution, and John Locke, the -eounty court district of Temple Cloud, Chew hundred, philosopher, was a frequent visitor at the Court during rural deanery of Chew, archdeaconry of Bath and diocese thJ time it was held by his friend John Strachey: .of B'ath and Wells. The church of S. Nicholas and S. the mansion was restored under the direction of T. H. Mary the Virgin is a small building of stone in the }Tor­ Wyatt esq. Lord Strachie P.C. is principal landowner. man style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a The soil is loamy elay; subsoil, clayey and red sand­ western tower with pierced parapet and pinnacles and stone. The crops are roots, but the land is chiefly in .eontaining 5 bells: there are monuments to the Jones pasture. Th-e area is 1,269 acres; rateable value, . family: the stained east window is a memorial to one Qf £2,416; the population in rgn was I45 in the civil 5he barons Mount Sandford, an Irish peerage which be­ parish and 764 in the ecclesiastical parish (which -me extinct on the death of the 3rd peer in 1846: there includes Bishop's Sutton). are .sittings for 100 persons. The register dates from By Local Government Board Order r5,67B, March 24, the year 1570. The living is a rectory, with that of r884, a detached: part of Stowey, known·as Wrights, was Eishop Sutton annexed, joint net yearly value £256, (for rating purposes) transferred to Chew Magna, and a with residence and 32 acres of glebe, in the gift of the part of Knighton Sutton tithing transferred from Chew Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held since 1885 by the Magna to Stowey, and another detached part added from Rev. James Samuel Hill B.A.. & B.D. of the University of Chew Magna, under - the provisions of the "Divided London. The Jones charity, distributed at the dis­ Parishes A.ct, 1882." cretion of the owner of Stowey House, was bequeathed Sexton, Thomas Sheppard. by a member of that family, once owners of the estate aow held by Lord Strachie P.C. Sutton Court, the Letters from Bristol, via Clut,ton. Bishop Sutton, about •eat of Lord Strachie P.C., D.L., J.P. is an interesting I mile distant, is the nearest money order & tele- •ld house, the tower and court wall of which date graph office. Wall Letter Box cleared week days from the reign of Edward II. ; the manor house was only; & at Sutton Court added to the tower previous to the time of Henry VII. ; Publie Elementary School, est-ablished in 1837, & built a chapel and great parlour were added in 1558 by by the Rev. J. Harkness, a former vicar, for 40 Elizabeth Hard wick, whose husband, Ca.ptain St. Loe, children; Miss T. H. Clarke, mistress Hill Rev. James Samuel B.A.., B.D. Gould Victor, farmer, Stowey farm PRIVATE RESIDENTS. (rector), Rectory Harris Arth. Geo. farmer,Manor frm Strachie Lord P.C., D.L., J.P. Sutton Strachey Henry, Stowey mead Hiett EdwardPlummer,head gardener Court (postal address, Pensford) ; COMMERCIAL. to .Lord Strachie & 27 Oadogan gardens S W 3 & Blacker Ambrose W. farmer,Knighton Hoddinott ·wm.Iime burner,Sutton hl Brooks' & Travellers' clubs SW I, Sutton Mapstone Henry, farmer, Moorledge London Fear Jesse, farmer, Curl's farm Masters Robert, farmer . NETHER STOWEY, formerly a market town, is a Tecast and rehung in 1914 : seven of the windows are parish and pretty village, on a small stream which flows stained, and include a memorial window to the twin into the river Parret, 8 miles west from Bridgwater sta­ brothers Sealey, given by E. U. Vidal esq. of Corn­ tion on the Great Western railway, at which place there borough: the church was rebuilt, excepting the tower, is also a station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, and in 1Bso, and has sittings for 400 persons. The register about 5 miles north-east from Orowcombe station on the dates from the year 1640. The living is a vicarage, net Taunton and Minehead branch of the Great Western yearly value £zg6, including 47 acres of glebe, with resi­ railway; the parish is in the Bridgwater division of the dence, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, eounty, western division of Williton and Freemanors and held since 1901 by the Rev. Robert Harland. Here hundred, Bridgwater petty sessional division, Bridgwater is a. Congregational chapel, erected in 1Bo7, with sit­ union and county court district, rural deanery of Quan­ tings for zoo persons. The charities, which are de­ toxhead, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath rived from land, amount to about £zo yearly. Here are and Wells. The church of St. Mary is a building of stone quarries. Samuel Taylor Ooleridge, the dis­ stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, tinguished poet, resided here from 1797 till r8oo, as nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a western appears from an inscribed stone slab in the wall of the tower, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells, which were house where he lived, and in which some of his most .