r DIRECTORY. J SOMERSET. NAILSEA. 365 Letters through Langport arriTe about 7 a.m. & 4.30 Public Elementary School (mixed), erected, with resi p.m. Wall Letter Box, near the school, cleared at dence attached, in 1872, & enlarged in r883 by the late 8.45 a..m. & 6.ro p.m. week days only. Langport, 2 Waiter J. Long esq. for 8o children; average attend miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph ance, 48 ; Miss Alice Beatrice Giles, mistress office PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Brister Charles, farmer Quantock Henry, thatcher, Thorney Evans Rev. Jas. Osborne B.A.(curate, Cridland Edwin Richard Stuckey, far Rowsell Chas.Hy.frmr.Muchelney-ham Muchelney & Huish Episcopi) mer, Horsey farm Sandford Waiter, shopkeeper Weigall Major George Edward (late Harris Jehu, dairy, Muchelney-ham Tout Charles, mason R.A.), 'l'he Old Priest's house Hunt Joel Joseph Hurman, farmer & White John Hill farmer, Almery farm landowner, Manor farm Woodborne Jas. frmr.Muchelney-ham COMMERCIAL. Lenton Saml. farmer, Muchelney-ba.m Woodborne Wm.whlwrght.&parish elk Beckey Frederick, blacksmith Perrett Thomas & William, farmers, Bicknell Rd. Percival, frmr. Thorney Thorney & .A!jbey farms MUDFORD is a parish and village, on the river Yeo J.P. of Chilton Cantelo, who is lord of the manor, the (or !vel), which is here crossed by a bridge of two Rev. Edward Harbin Bates Harbin M.A. of Yeovil, and arches; it is 3 miles north from Yeovil station of the Thomas Worsfold Mayo esq. of Yeovil, are the chief Great Western and London and South Western railways, landowners. The soil is clayey and the subsoil is clay in the Southern division of the county, Stone hundred, and light sand. The chief crops are wheat, oats and Yeovil union, county court district and petty sessional pasture. The area is 2,249 acres of land and 14 of division, rural deanery Qf Merston, archdeaconry of Wells water; rateable value, £3,987; the population in 191r and diocese ·of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary was 343 civil, and 336 ecclesiastical parish. is a building Qf stone in the Perpendicular style, consist- Sexton, Nathaniel Ash. ing of chancel, nave, north transept, south porch and an Post & Telegraph Office. Henry Colley, sub-postmaster. embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a Letters through Yeovil, arrive at 6.55 a.m. & 4.30 clock and 5 bells: the church was relighted in 1894 at a p.m. & dispatched at g.rs a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; no cost of £3o, and a retable, credence and other additions delivery or dispatch on sundays. Yeovil, 3 miles made: there are sittings for 1,70 persons. The register distant, is the nearest money order office dates from the year 1,5182. The living is a vicarage, net Wall Letter Box, Hinton, cleared at 9 a. m. & 6. r5 p.m. yearly value £140, with residence, in the gift of the Dean wook days only and Chapter of Wells, and held since 19I3 by the Rev. Police Station, William Edwin Pring, constable Edward Armitag-e Sandford M.A. of Christ Church, Public Elementary Sch{)Ql (mixed), built in 1847, for 81 Oxford. Whitbye's charity of £4 3s. 3d. yearly value, children; average attendance, 68; Henry Verrier~ derived from £r67 Consols, is distributed in money to master; Mrs. F. Wilkins & Miss Maud Billen, the poor of the parish. John William Goodford esq. assistant mistresses Bown Misses, Upper Mudford Bull Wm. J{)b Perry, Half Moon P.H Sawtell John, farmer, Stone farm Sandford Rev.Edward Armitage M.A. Colley Henry, shopkeeper, Post office Sims Henry, dairyman,Mudford Sock (vicar), Vicarage Garland George, foreman carpenter Snook John Watts, farmer,Hinton fm to John Wm. Goodford esq. J.P Stockley Henry, blacksmith COMMERCIAL. Giles John, dairyman, Hinton Turner Mark, farmer, Mudford Sock Billen James, wheelwright Higgins Chas. Edwd. licensed hawker Verrier Henry, clerk to the Parish Bond John Luff, farmr.Parsonage frm Pepperd Wait. farmer, West Mudford Council & assistant overseer Bown Waiter, farmer, Manor house, Pople -, farmer, West Mudford Wilkins Benjamin, carpenter Upper Mudford Rowsell Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, 1 Brake William, carrier 1\fudford Sock J NAILSEA is a large parish and village, with a station By Local Government Board OrdeT r6,soo, March 24, 1 mile south-east on the Bristol and Exeter section of the 1884, New Mead was transferred from Wraxall and Ley Great Western railway, 9 west-south-west from Bristol from Kenn to Nailsea. and 4! east-south-east from Clevedon, in the Northern Sexton, Holy Trinity, John Lang-worthy. division of the county, Long Ashton union, Bristol county Sexton, Christ Church, Henry Morse. eourt district, Portbury hundred, Long Ashton petty ses sional division, rural deanery of Portishead, archdeaconry Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office. of Bath and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of George Russell, sub-postmaster. Letters through the Holy Trinity is an ancient building of stone in the Bristol arrive at 7· ro a.m. & 2.20 & 6.10 p.m.; dis Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, patched at ro a.m. & S·S & 7·45 p.m south porch and an embattled western tower, containing Wall Letter Boxes.-Old Church, cleared at 8.45 a.m. & a clock and 6 bells : there is a singular stone pulpit and a 4.20 & 7· IS p.m. ; sundays, 4 p.m.; West end, at good oaken chest: the church was restored in r86I, and 9 a.m. & 3·45 p.m. ; King's hill, at 9· 15 a. m. & 3· IS the tower in 1904, when four pinnacles were added: there & 7 p.m. ; sundays, 3-40 p.m. ; Wraxall Saw mills, at are z6o sittings. The register dates from the year 1545. 9.30 a.m. & 4·35 & 7·5 p.m. ; sundays, 3·55 p.m. ; The living was separated from that of Wraxall and made Silver street, 9.30 a.m. & 2.45 & 7.30 p.m.; sundays, a distinct rectory, under the provisions of an Act of 3-IS p.m.; Bucklands Batch, ro.IS a.m. & 5.30 & 8 Parliament, 51 George Ill. (r8u), net yearly value £230, p.m.; sundays, 4-30 p.m with residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since r-874 by the Rev. John Johnson M.A. of Trinity College. PUBLIC OFFICIALS Cambridge. Christ Church is an ecclesiastical parish, formed April 12, 1844, from that of Nailsea: the church, Assistant Overseer, William H. Shepstone, Bucklands erected in 1843, is Qf stone, in the Early English style, Certifying Factory Surgeon, John Wm. White L.R.C.P. and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and an open Irel., M.R.C.S.Eng. Orchard house western belfry, containing one bell: there are 400 sittings. Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Long Ashton The register dates from I844· The living is a vicarage, Union, No. 2 District, Henry Oakley Corfield M.D., net yearly value £I3o, with residence, in the ~ift of C.M.; No. 5 District, John William White L.R.C.P the rector of Nailsea, and is at present ( I9I3) vacant. Irel., M.R.C.S.Eng. Orchard house There is a Congregational chapel, erected in I83o, and Relieving Officer, 2nd Division wng Ashton Union & seating 300 persons, and Wesleyan and United Metho Registrar of Births k Deaths, Nailsea Sub-District, dist chapels. A cemetery of one rood was opened in David Davis 1893 at a cost of £92 by voluntary subscriptions. The charities amount to fA 7s. There are several coal pits, PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. which have not been worked for some years, stone Old Church (mixed), for 209 children; average attend quarries, a steam corn mill and one small brewery. ance, rSI; John G. Gowar, master; Miss G. New Lady Smyth, of Ashton Court, who is lady of the berry, infants' mistress manor, the trustees of the late John Rodbar-d Rodbar.d The school is controlled by six managers; Rev. J. JQhn esq. Charles Edward Evans esq. and Brightric Gee esq. son M.A. rector, conespondent are the chief landowners. The soil is loamy ; the sub Christ Church (mixed), ro-ected in r844, for IBI children; soil, red sandstone. There is a. large tract of moorland, &vera~e attendance, r22; Waiter Jones, master; Miss which was inclosed, under an Act of Parliament, in the M. Holly, mistress year r8r3. The acreage of the entire civil parish is Carriers to & from Bristol.-George Ha-Trill, ' Three 2,8s8 of land, chiefly pasture, and 8 {)f water; rateable Queens,' ThQmas street, daily; & Hartley Webber, fr{)m value, £11,263; the population in 19II was 1,866; the ' Old Fox,' Redcliff street, daily population of the ecclesiastical parishes in I9II was: Holy Trinity (parish church), 1,n2 ; Christ Church, 754. Railway Station, S. Chalk, station master