380 WEST PENN.ARD. SOMER~ET. [KELLY'S
Sexton and Parish Clerk, Arthur Frederick Haines. sundays, 10.40 a.m. ; Farthing farm, 5.30 p.m.; EAST STREET, half-a-mile north-west: STICK Vicarage wall, cleared at 5·55 p.m. week days only; &; LINCH, 1 mile north-east; SOUTH TOWN, 1 mile Piltown, cleared at 5·5 p.m. week days only south-east, and WOODLANDS, 1 mile south-west, are Public Elementary Schools. small hamlets. Mixed, founded in 1856, for 130 children; average attend Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Samuel Rogers, sub-post ance, 76 ; Alfred George Coombe, master; Miss Laura. master. Letters arrive from Glastonbury at 6.55 a.m. Robson, mistress & 3.15 p.m.; sunday, 8 a.m.; dispatched at 1.15 & Wesleyan, erected in 1878, for 6o children; average at 6.10 p.m. & 10.30 a.m. on sundays tendance, 33 ; Mrs. Eliza Cock, mistress Wall Letter Boxes.-Station, cleared at 5 p.m. weeJ.. Police Station, Wm. Henry Martin, constable in charge days only; Woodlands, 9.20 a.m. & 1.25 & 6.20 p.m.; Railway Station, Charles Herbert Haine, station master
PRIVATE RESIDI
PENSEL WOOD is a parish and village on the rivers examined by the Wincanton Field Club in 18go, with Stmu and Cale, and on the London and Exeter road, on but slight results. The road from Penselwood to King the borders of Dorsetshire and Wiltshire, 4 miles north Alfred's Tower bisects a camp on the crest of the hill east from Wincanton station on the Somerset and Dorset 7 acres in extent, now called Kinniwilkin's (i.e. Ken Junction railway, in the Eastern division of the county, walch's) Castle. A feast was formerly held on the northern division of Norton Ferris hundred. Wincanton first Sunday after the 5th August yearly. The tract of union, county court district and petty sessional division, woodland, known as Pen Forest, is the property of the rural deanery of Bruton, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese Rev. Lewis Randolph M. Leir M.A. rector of Charlton of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Michael is a Musgrove. The Earl of Ilchester and Sir Henry Hugh building of stone in the Early and Late P~>rpendicular Arthur Hoare hart. of Stourhead, Bath, are the lords styles, with some portions of Norman date, and consists of the manor. The Rev. Newton Parsons M.A. Capt. of chancel, nave of three bays, north aisle, south porch Weston Peters Parsons, of The Manor House; Charlton and embattled western tower, with a rudely carved figure Hawthorne, and Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare hart. at each angle, and containing 4 bells, one of which dates are the chief landowners. The soil is sandy and loamy, from the 13th century, and another was added in 1905 : and the subsoil is sandstone. The land is nearly all in the chancel contains several mural tablets: the church pasture. The area is 1,112 acres ; assessable value, was restored in 1849: there are sittings for 160 persons. £1,229; the population in 1911 was 275 civil and Z'J6 The register dates from the year 1721. The living is ecclesiastical (which comprises part of Stoke Trister a rectory, net yearly value £156, including 47 acres civil parish). of glebe, with residooce, in the gift of the Earl of By Local Government Board Order I6,.s8o, March 25. Ilchester and Sir H. H. A. Hoare bart. and held since 1885, a detached part of Penselwood near Sunny Hill was 1900 oy the Rev. Newton Parsons M.A. of Emmanuel transfE-rr-ed to Stoke Trister for civil purpose!!. OollegP, Cambridge. Here is a Primitive Methodist Snton, William Clelford. chapel. There is a green sandstone quarry. Pen Pits, Post Office. Miss Triphena Knapton, sub-postmistress. which lie to the south-easb of the village, consist of a Letters from Bourton (Dorset) arrive at 8.20 a.m. & large number of hollows of varying dimensions, once of 6.40 p.m. ; sundays, 8.50 a.m. ; dispatched at 8.20 much greater extent; various opinions have been entN a.m. & 6.40 p.m. ; sundays, 8.25 a.m. Bourton tained by antiquaries as to the object of these excava (Dorset), ~~ miles distant, is the nearest money order tions, some regarding them as quarries only and others & telegraph office as the remains of pit-dwellings formed by pre-historic Wall Letter Boxes. At the School, cleared on week settlers, but the late Lieut.-Gen. A. H. L. Fox-Pitt days at 8 ..s a.m. & 6.15 p.m. & sundays at 8.5 a.m. & Rivers F.R.S., F.S.A. who carefully examined them at Leig-h Common, at 7.30 a.m. & 12.25 p.m. on week in 1883, arrived at the conclusion that they were never davs onlY habitations, but quarries for querns ; the only pits now Public Elementary School (mixed), enlarged in 1882, ior intact are at Castle Orchard : a field called " Ballands," a Bo children ; average attendance, 36 ; Miss Margaret corruption of "Barrowlands," is a tumulus or barrow, Wingham, mistress (Letters for Leigh Common should be Butt John, carpenter Kelly Charles, shopkeeper addressed Wincant-on, Somerset.) Collard William Edgar, cattle dealer, ~atthews AlbPI"t, farmer & assistant PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Encie, Leigh Common oversE'Pr, Manor farm Cook Eli, farmer, Leigh Common Matthews Herbert D' Arcy, farmer, Burpitt Isaiah Cox Hubert, farmer, Pear Ash The Green Jakeman Miss, Forest lodge Oross Jesse, farmer, Pen Mill Matthews Rezia,farmer,Leigh Oommn Matthews Mrs. Uriah, Bleak street Green Sarah (Mrs.), farmr. Bleak St Miles George, farmer, Long lane Parsons Rev. Newton M.A. Rectory Grey Frederick, farmer, Pen lane Pudfield George, beer retailer Gullingham Robert, farmer, Pen Hill S ;vpet1nan Richard, Hunter's Lodge COMMERCIAL. Hart gill J a ne (Mrs.), shopkeeper P.H. Leigh Oommon Arnold Frederick, farmer, Pear Ash Hescock Harry, mason,Leigh Commn Thick Jane (Mrs.), farmer Arnold William Eden,farmer,Edenville Ings Ira, shopkeeper Thiclr Thomas, farmer, Ring's farm Butt Elisha, wheelwright, Leigh Corn Isaacs Maurice, horse dlr. Leigh Corn Trim FrE>d, beer retailer PENSFORD, see Publow.