404: ROWBERROW. . [KELLY'S Letters from Winscombe, Somerset, arrive at about 7.30 The children of this place attend Churchill & Shipham a.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 8 a.m. & 7·5 p.m. schools Churchill is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant Leacroft Major Edward Ranulph, 1 Adams Oliver Clifford, Swan P.H Leacroft Geoffrey Charles Ranulph & Manor house 1 Atwell Arthur, farmer Ronald John Ranulph, farmers Adams Eber George, assistant over- Clark Albert Henry, market gardenr Tossell William, tailor, Star seer for Rowberrow l is a parish and village, near the river residence of Jeffrey Philip Thomas Alien esq. The Tone, with a station called Thornfalcon on the Chard lords of the manor, which is part of the manor of branch of the Great Western railway, and is 3 miles Deane, are the Kinglake trustees. The prin­ east from Taunton, in the Bridgwater division of the cipal landowner is H. E. Murray-Anderdon esq. J.P. county, hundred of Taunton De!¥1, Taunton petty ses­ and there are many small owners. The parish is about sional division, union and county court district, rural equally divided into pasture and arable land. The BOil deanery and archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of is marl ; subsoil, upper red sandstone. The area is Bath and Wells. The church of St. George is a small 1,027 acres; assessable value, £~.478; the population but venerable edifice of stone, in the Decorated and in I9ll was 457· BENLADE is a hamlet about a mile Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave of south and near Thornfalcon station. two bays, south aisle, south porch and an embattled Post & Telegraph Office, Henlade. Francis John Hunt, western tower 56 feet in height, containing a clock sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Taunton at 3·45 and 3 bells ; the porch and the base of the tower still a.m. & 3·35 p.m. week days; sundays, 3·45 a.m. & exhibit Norman features; the upper portion of the dispatched at I2.2o & g,12 p.m. week days; sundays, tower dates from I549: the south aisle is Decorated, 9.1~ a.m. The deliveries begin at 6 a.m. & 2.45 p.m. and the nave Perpendicular : the east window is stained, week days; sundays, 6 a.m. On sundays the office and there are other stained memorial windows includ­ Is open only from 7 a.m. till Io a.m. The nearest ing one to the late John E. Anderdon esq. of Henlade money order office is at Creech St. Michael House. The church was restored and reseated in 1866, Wall Letter Boxes.-Henlade lodge, cleared at II.zs with seats previously in use in the Royal Chapel of the a.m. & 7.Io p.m.; sunday, 7·45 a.m.; Ruishton Savoy, Strand, London: and there are sittings for 200 village, near the church, cleared at 12 noon & 6.50 persons. In the churchyard are tombs to the family of p.m. on week days & 10.55 a.m. on sundays Proctor from 1621, and some remains of a stone cross. The register of baptisms dates from 1755; marriages, Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in IB61, at 1754, burials, 176o. The living is a vicarage, net yearly a cost of about £6oo, & now accommodating 54 chil­ value [125, including I2 acres of glebe, with residence, dren; average attendance, 42; Miss F. I. Manley, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held mistress since I9II by the Rev. Charles Arthur Mount. Henlade Railway Station (Thornfalcon), Samuel Strickland, sta- House is the property and residence of Henry Edward tion master • Murray-Anderdon esq. J .P. Woodlands House is the RUISHTON. Gray Charlotte (Miss), school, Black- Murray·Anderdon Henry Edward J.P. Alien Jeffrey Philip Thomas B.A. brook cottage Henlade house Woodlands Harris Henry John, farmer Price Frederick, The Mount Lund Col. Fredk. T. Ruishton lodge Hitchcock George, farmer COMMERCIAL. Mount Rev. Charles Arthur (vicar), Lenthall Herbert, Blackbrook inn 1 Bennett William, basket maker Vicarage Lillycrap Frederick, smith Gready Henry, carpenter & assistant Paul Miss, Rivers dale Rails Martha (Mrs.), grocer overseer Sommerville Rbt.Grieve,Ruishton ho Sweeting James, farmer Hawkins George, farmer Sweeting William Francis, farmer Marshall Wm. John, market gardener COMlfERCIAL. Trott J a.mes, butcher Moo re Susan (Mrs.), grocer Bennett William, basket maker White Arthur Joseph, market gardnr Pickard Robert William, farmer Cozens Harry, farmer . Small George & Sons, coal merchants, Cozens Waiter, baker HENLADE. Thornfalcon station; & at Taunton Gibbitt James, shoe maker Channell Arthur W. T. Henlade lodge Taunton Vale Foxhounds (Capt. H. Govier John T. jun. farmer Chisholm Batten James Forbes B.A., A. Kinglake, master;- William Govier Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Thorn- J.P. Thornfalcon cottage Dall'ieh;, huntsman), Kennel! water farm Orocker Theodore, Thorn!ham grove Willment John, carpenter RUNNINGTON is a parish and village on the river • ter dates from the year 1586. The living is a rectory, Tone, I mile north-west from Wellington station on the net yearly value £qo, including 16 acres of glebe, with Great Western railway, in the Western divi.sion of the residence, in the gift of and held since 1896 by the Rev. county, hundred of Milverton, petty sessional division, Henry Dyson Lloyd M.A. of Clare College, Cambridge. union and county court district of Wellington, rural dean- Col. Edward Charles Ayshford Sanford C.M.G. of ery of Wellington, archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese Court, J. H. Farrant esq. and Christopher of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Peter is an ancient Birmingham esq. are the chief landowners. The soil is building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of loam-sand; subsoil, rock. The chief crops are wheat, chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower barley and turnips. The area is 334 acres; rateable containing 2 bells: the rood-loft stair in the north wall value, £1,203; the population in I9II was 79· remain.s, and near it is a stone projecting from the wall, Deputy Parish Clerk & Sexton, Edward Taylor. on which, probably, the hour-glass formerly rested: the stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. Edward Letters from Wellington, by foot post, arrive at 7 a.m. Alexander Webber B.A. rector here from 1836, erected by & 3 p.m. Wall Letter Box, cleared at 7.15 a.m. & his widow, and there is another stained window in the 2.45 & 6.IS p.m. The nearest money order &; tele­ south wall: there are sittings for 8o persons. The regis- graph office is at Wellington, I mile distant Ewens Misses, Sandiland house Pike J ames Cassie George, small holder Lloyd Rev. Henry Dyson M.A. The Burton George & Son, threshing ma- Kidley Samuel, nurseryman Rectory chine owners ST. CATHERINE is a parish and picturesque village, Blancflard family, dated November 7• .1868: the east adjoining Batheaston, bounded on the north by the county window is filled with stained glass of the date of Prior of Gloucester, and 4 miles north-east from Bath, where is Cantlow (1489-99), to whose memory it was erected; it the nearest railway station, in the Frome division of the had been much mutilated, but is now restored as county, union and county court district of Bath, hundred nearly as possible to its original design: on the south of Bath Forum, Weston petty sessional division, rural side of the nave is a stained window containing 8 deanery of Keynsham, archdeaconry of Bath and diocese figure of St. Catherine: the nave was new roofed, 8 of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Catherine is an small vestry added, and school-rooms built near the ancient edifice ol stone of Norman date, rebuilt in 1499, church, at the cost of the Rev. Robert Drummond M.A. by John Cantlow, prior of Bath, who died in August of vicar of Ferring, Essex ( 1829-66), d. 1883, who also that year, and again rebuilt in I7o4; in 1846 it was gave some very handsome mosaic work: there are restored by the Strutt family, and consists of chancel, sittings for So persons. The register dates from the nave, south porch and an embattled western tower, with year 1722. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the pinnacles, containing 4 bells : the pulpit and pews are of vicarage of Batheaston, joint net yearly value /,260. oak : there are several monuments, including one to the with residence and 2 acres of land, in the gift of Chris'

•