Somersetshire
324: MtSTEBTON. [ KELLY'S • SOMERSETSHIRE. Somerset Trading Company Limited, Symes Ell, grocer & butcher Yeaxlee Nelson, baker coal, timber, slate & general mer- Vardy George, grocer, Post office Young John, Sw-an inn chants, Railway station MONKSILVER is a village and parish, on the road Notley esq. of Combe Sydenham, Stogumber, is lord of the from Minehead to Taunton, 3 miles west from Stogumber manor and principal landowner. The soil is a sandy loam; station and 4 south-south-west from Williton station on the subsoil marl, and produces excellent crops of wheat, barle~-,. West Somerset hranch of the Great Western railway,7 north oats, mangolds, potatoes and turnips. The acreage of the from Wiveliscombe and 13 north-west from Taunton, in the parish is x,oo6; rateable value, £1,242; the population in Western division of the county, hundred of Williton and 1891 was tBB civil and 191 ecclesiastical. Freemanors, Williton petty sessional division, union and On March 25, x884, by Local GoveTnment Board Orde~ county court district, rural deanery of Wiveliscombe, arch 14,606, a detached part of this parish, known as Doniford.,. deaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells The was amalgamated with Old Cleeve for civil purposes. church of All Saints is a small edifice in the Perpendicular Sexton, William Calloway. style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 5 PosT OFFICE.-John Hole, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive- bells and a clock, given by Miss Gatchell, in memory of from Taunton at 7.20 a. m.
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