804 KllYNSBAM. I SOMERSET. [KEL.LY'I in z883 the organ was restored at a cost of £~so: theTe PUBLIC EST ABLISRMENTS. are 85o sittings. The regi11ter dates fwm the year 1629. Cemetery, Durley hill, Charles H . .Abbott, clerk The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £!;!40, including County Police Station, Bath hill, William Joshua Parfitt~ 8 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Peache sergeant, & ~ constables trustees, and held since 1918 by the Rev. Charlell Henry Drill Hall, Bath hill, to seat soo Edward Cropper. There is a. Baptist ehapel, erected in 1807 with sittings for 340 persons, and also Wesleyan, United Methodist and Reformed Methodist chapel1. KEYNSH.AM UNION. The cemetery, 2~ acres in extent, was formed in 1877 Board day, 4th ~uesday in the month, at 11.30 a.m. at at a cost of about £2,2oo, and has two mortuary the Union Board room. chapels; it is under the control of the Parish Council. ' By Local Government Board Order, March 25th, 1895, A hospital for infectious diseases is 11ituated on· the the parish of Kingswood was induded in the Keynsha:m outskirts of the town. On the· road to Bristol are union. almshouses, founded by Sir Thomas Brydges, for six The Union comprises the following places, viz. : Bitton poor widows, each of whom receives £4 yearly from (Gloucester), Brislington, Burnett, Compton Dando, the Brydges estate and £7 each fr.om Miss Eastwick't Corl!!ton, Hanham .Abbots (Gloucester), Kelston, Keyns- legacy; another charity of £67 yearly was left by ham, Kingswood (Gloucester), Mangotsfield (Glouces- the late Miss Eastwick: the feoffeets have about £r6o a. ter), Marksbury, Northstoke, Newton St. Loe, Oldland year for the middle poor. There are also almshouses (Gloucester), Priston, Queen Charlton, Saltford, Sis- for four aged married couples, founded in 1885 in ton (Gloucester), Stanton Prior & Whit.church. The memory of Alfred Milward. The abbey of Keynsham, population of the union in 1911 was 40,039, viz.:- which stood to the south-ea11t of the present pariah church, Somerset, 10,141 ; Gloucestershire, 2 g,8g8; area, was founded, according to Dugdale, between the years 33,023 acre!!;. rateable value at Lady Day, 1917~ n2o and II72, by William, Earl of Gloucester, for Black £ 1s6, 885 , viz. :-Somerset, £84,s72 ; Glouce11 tershire,. Canons regular of St. Austin, and was dedicated to the £ 102,013 honour of God, the In~ssed Virgin and St. Peter and St. Chairman of the Board of Guardians, R. F. Nurse esq.' Paul; it was one of the greater religious houses, and Hanham Green, Bristol its yearly revenue at the Dissolution was valued at Clerk to t-he Guardians & .Assessment Committee, Chas. £469: a considerable portion of the fabric was used in Martin, Keynsham building the tower of the parish church. The principal Treasurer, H. Carey Batten, London County West- landowners are John Edden Commans esq. who is lord mimter & Parr's Bank Limited, Bristol of the manor and Joseph Cooke Hurle esq. The soil is Collectors of Poor Rates, William J. Batley (assistant clay; ~u bsoil, blue lias · The chief crope are wheat, overseer), Bitton ; Alfred G. Skilling (assistant over- barley, oats and roots. The area is 4,197 acres of land seer), Brislingtot,; Joe Nicholas, Corston (assistant and 38 of water; rateable value, [3o,oo4; the popula- overseer); Edwin Short, Hanham; Charles Bntoks~ tion in 19II was 3,720, including II officers and 128 Compton Dando; Charles H. .Abbott, Station road, inmates of the Union Institution. Keynsham; Lewis Ball, Mangotsfield; .Alfred Ladd, By Local Government Board Order 16,409, March 24, Kingswood; Joseph Nicholas, Conton; Miss Colstorr, 1884, Withybred was transferred from Oldland to Keyns- Whitchurch ham. Vaccination Officer, William W. Cox, Ivydene, Avon Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.- road, Keynsham Mrs. Lillian Gertrude Gray, postmistre!'ls. Letters Superintendent Registrar, Charles Martin, Keynsham; arrive from Bristol. Letters are delivered to callers deputy, A.rthur J. Woodward, The Union Institution, on sun days from 8.30 to xo a.m. Telegraph also open Union road, Keynsham on sundays from 8.30 to xo a.m.; on other days from Registrars ·of Births & Death~, Bitton & Kingswood sub- 7 a.m. to 7 p.m district, T. Churchill, Warmley; . deputy, A.d E. Wall Letter Boxes.-Bath Hill; Bristol Road; Charlton Whiting:. Dow~end; Keynsham I!!Ub-district, Fre erick road; Chewton Keynsham; Stockwood & Rock road Dorey, JUn. H1~h street, Keynsham; deputy, Charl~s . H. Abbott, Stat10n road, Keynsham / · Registrar of Marriages, Alfred Ladd, Kingswood Hill ; JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR KEYNSH.AM PETTY\ deputy, William D. Strange, Kingswood Hil~ SESSIO~AL DIVISIO~. . . I The Union Institution, south of the village, was built Cooke-.Hurle Joseph, H1ll house, Bnslmgton, Brlt'!tol J in 1 938, at a cost of £5,170, & will hold 257 inmates; (chairman) in 1897 additions to the buildings were completed Clayfield-Ireland Alfred, Brislington hall, Bristol at a cost of £r,goo; Rev. C. H. ~E. Cropper, chap- Gibbons Pbilip F. The Park, Keynsham lain; Charles Harrison M.R.C.S.Eng. medical officer, Lawrence Sir Alexander Waldemar, Brockham End, j Artbur John Woodward, master; Mrs. Woodward, Lansdown, Bath matron; Miss· Mary J. Vowles, industrial trainer; Leyborne Popham Hugh Francis A., M.A. Hunstrete, Miss A. R . .Atwood, superintendent nurse Pensford Pbillips Edward England, Sydney house, Bathwick, Bath Rolleston Col. William Vilett, Saltford house, Saltford, KEYNSHAM OUT-RELIEF UNION. Bristol Board Meetings, 1st tuesday in the month. Smith Alfred John, Brook Lea, Brislington, Bristol Formed of the Somerset parishes mentioned in previous Temple Earl, Newton park, Newton St. Loe list. William Thomas, St. Augustine's, Keynsham Clerk, Chas. Martin, St . .Albam, Charlt.on rd.Keynsham The Chairman, for the time being-, of the Keynsham Treasurer, H. Garey Batten, London County West­ Rural District Council is an ex-officio justice · minster & Parr's Bank Limited, Bristol Clerk to the Justices, Charles F. Whittuck, 22 Broad Relieving Officer, Wm. W. Cox, Burnett rd. Keynsham street, Bristol Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, No. 1 district, Petty Sessions are held at the County Police Station at Charles Harrison M.R.C.S.Eng. Tregare house, High 11 a.m. every 3rd friday. The following places are in­ street, Keynsham; No. 2 district, William P. Taylor cluded in the division :-Brislington, Burnett, Compton L.S.A. Hanover house, Keynsham; No. 3 district, Dando, Keynsham, Marksbury, Priston, Queen Charl­ Thomas .Aubrey M.R.C.S.Eng. Bitton; No. 4 district, ton, Saltford, Stanton Prior, Whitchurch Henry C. Heathcote M.B., Ch.B. Twerton. Bath; No. 5 district, George Bevir 1\f.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.Lond. Timsbury, Bath KEYNSH.AM RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. Meetings rst & 3rd tuesday in the month, Board room, PUBLIC OFFICERS. Union, at 10.30 a.m. Assistant Overseer & Collector of Poor Rates, Charles H. Chairman, G. P. Caple, Stanton Prior, Bristol Abbott, Station road Clerk, Francis G. Whittuck, Welford house, Bristol rd Certifying Factory Surgeon, Charles Harrison M.R.C.S. Treasurer, H. Carev Batten, London County West- En~. Tregare house, High street minster & Parr's Bank Limited, Bristol Clerk to the Bath & Keynsham Old Age Pen!'ion Sub­ Medical Officer of Health, John Cookesley Heaven Committee, Charles- Frederick Whittuck, 2 Northum­ L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng., D.P.H. 17 Whiteladies' berland buildings, Bath road, Clifton, Bristol Clerk to the Commissioners of Taxes for KPynsham Surveyors, M. H. Bennett, Corn street, Bristol & J edidiah Division, Charles F. Whittuck, 22 Broad street, Bristol Johns·on, St. Lawrence, Rock road, Keynsham V-eterinary Inspector under the "Diseases of .Animals Sanitary Inspector (whole district), George Watts, Acts" for Keynsham Petty Sessional Division to the Holnest, St. Keyna road County Council,Erne1t James Bath M.R.C.V .S.High st