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SOMERSET. CH.ARD, 191 of the Town Hall, and Number in All 92 Officers and the Are:'A of Chard Municipal Borough and Borough Men DIREC'fORY,] SOMERSET. CH.ARD, 191 of the Town Hall, and number in all 92 officers and The arE:'a of Chard municipal borough and borough men. parish is 444 acres; rateable value, £2o,oq9; the popu­ John Wheadon esq. of Crimchard, who died in Feb­ lation in I9II was 4,568, including 10 officials and 133 ruary, 1866, bequeathed £I,soo to the poor of the parish inmates of the workhouse. The population of the ec­ and borough of Chard, £soo each to the parishes of clesiastical parish in 19n was 4,261. Winsham, Combe St. Nicliolas and Buckland St. Mary, By Local Government Board Order No. 29,765, Sept. and £25o to the parish of Creech St. Michael; these 30, 1893, that part of Chard civil parish in the muni­ sums are invested in the funds in the names of the cipal borough was added to Chard borough civil parish. ministers and churchwardens of the respective parishes, The area of Chard parish is 5,214 acres of land and and the dividends are distributed annually by them on 6o of water; rateable value, £13,224; population in Christmas Eve in such manner as they think proper, 1911, 2,328. the gift in each parish being called "Wheadon's Charity." CRIMCHARD, formerly a tithing and hamlet adjoin­ Harvey's Hospital was founded and endowed in the 15th ing Chard on the north, is now within the borough year of Charles II. (1663-4) by Richard Harvey, of Exeter, parish. Here is a Mission room in connection with the for 16 poor persons, and was rebuilt in 1842; the income parish church. Chardleigh Green is x! miles north amounts to £458 yearly, and each inmate has two rooms, from Chard ; South Chard, 2! miles south ; Forton, 1! a weekly allowance of ss. to single persons and 6s. to south-east, and Tatworth, 2 miles south, are tithings married, and also coals, sheets, blankets and medical in Chard parish. attendance. Parish Clerk, Waiter Aplin. There are other charities of about £3 for distribution in FURNH.AM is an ecclesiastical parish, formed by Order money. in Council, Jan. 15, 1897; it comprises a portion of the Chard was the scene of some of the atrocities of thE' old parish of Chard, part within and part without the notorious Judge Je:ffreys, after the failure of Monmouth's municipal borough, or the east side of the parish of Chard. rebelliC'n in June. 1685, twelve of the rebels condemned at The church of the Good Shepherd, in East street, formerly Taunton being hanged here on a tree known as " Hang a mission chapel, is a building of stone, erected in 1872 Cross Tree," which formerly stood at the foot of the town. at a cost of about £2,500, and consists of a chancel and nearly opposite the site of the present London and Soutl1 nave of six bays, side chapel, erected in 1908 as a Western railway station. memorial to the Rev. Charles R. Elrington M.A. vicar Many Roman coins have been found here at various r897-1907, aisles, vestry and organ chamber: it will times, some of which, with other articles, were collected seat about 450 persons. The register was commenced by the late Mr. Arthur Hull, of Newhays, Chard, and Jan. rs, I897· The living is a vicarage, net yearly value were afterwards bequeathed by him to the Corporation. £1o8, in the gift of the Rev. Vincent Stuckey Stratton Coles M.A. and held since 1907 by the Rev. Francis The town was the scene of a batJtle in the Parliamentary Leonard Ewens. A detached house near the church war, when the Royalists, under Colonel Penruddock, were has been transferred to the governors of Queen Anne's defeated. · Bounty, to be used as a vicarage. A church house in The manor belonged to the see of Bath and Wells till East street, to be used for parish and mission purposes, 18ox, when it was alienated for the redemption of the was opened July, 1901. The population in 19II was land tax to Earl Poulett, whose trustees hold a court 1,353, including 10 officials and their families and 133 baron in the parish every year. inmates in the workhouse. OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c. Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office, Auditors, Sidney Kibby & Thomas H. Cottell Fore street. Henry F. Peake, postmaster .Aldermen. Hours of .Attendance. For sale of stamps, registration of letters &c. week days, 7 a.m. to 8.30 p.m.; sundays, Retire in November, 1913. 8.30 to 10 a.m. Postal order business, week days, 7 Samuel Henry Dening I Edward Gawler a.m. to 8.30 p.m. Money orders, issue of licenses, Retire in November, 1916. savings bank, government annuity & insurance busi­ ness, week days, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Telegraph & tele­ .Alfred Ernest Townsend I Robert Dwelly phone business, week days, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; sundays, 8.30 to 10 a.m. Telephone exchange :l! open always Officers of the Corporation. for subscribers Town Clerk, John .Adams Forward, Fore street On sunday only one delivery by letter carriers, com­ Treasurer, George William Lake, National Provincial mencing at 7 a.m. & to callers fr-om 8.30 to Io a.m Bank of England Limited Medical Officer of Health, J. Neville B. Vise M.R.C.S. Inward Mails. Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Axminster Letter & Parcel Mails.-Town delivery, London (night) Borough Engineer, Surveyor, Sanitary Inspector & In­ & all parts, 7 a.m.; North of England & Scotland, 9.30 spector under " Explosives Act,'' Ern est W. Hearn a. m. ; London (day) & Ireland; Bristol, Taunton,Exeter C.E., M.I.Mun.E. Fore street &c. Axminster, Ilminster & Crewkerne, 4-30 p.m.; Collector of Rates, Frederick Reginald Gawler London & all parts, 7.50 p.m Lessee of Market Tolls, Frank Stooks Letters are dispatched at 9.10, I0-55 & 11.30 a.m. & • 3·3o, 8.10 & 9 p.m Parcel Mails.-South West of England, Weymouth, BOROUGH JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. Yeovil &c. 9.40 a.tp..; London (day), Bath, Bristol &c. 'fhe Mayor & Ex-Mayor for the time being. Ilminster, Taunton, n.30 a.m.; London (day), North Clerk, John Adams Forward, Fore street of England, Ireland & Scotland, Bath, Bristol, Taunton Borough petty sessions are held at the Town hall every &c. 3.30 p.m.; London (night) & all parts, 8.30 p.m wednesday at II a.m Town Sub-Post & M.O. Office, 30 Victoria avenne.-Mrs. Mary Ann Horn, sub-postmistress. Letters arrivP JUSTICES OF THE JIEACE FOR CHARD SUB-DIVI­ 8 & n a.m. & 5 p.m. Box cleared at 10.40 a.m. & SION OF ILMINSTER PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. 3·5 & 8.30 p.m. week days Henley Col. Henry Cornish (chairman), Knap house, CORPORATION. W insham, Chard Boden Henry esq. The Beeches, Sherborne, Dorset 1912-1913. Dening Samuel Henry esq. Crimchard house, Chard Mayor-Alderman Edward Gawler J.P. King Capt. William, Burridge house, Chard Deputy-Mayor Alderman Samuel Henry Dening J.P. Langdon John Churchill Stuckey esq. Parrocks lodge, Councillors. Tatworth, Chard The Mayor of Chard & the Chairman of Chard Rural Retire in November, 1913. District Council are ex-officio magistrates Alfred Brewer I Edmund James Symes James Hawker Clerk to the Magistrates, John Adams Forward,Fore st Retire in November, 1914. Petty Sessions are held at the Town hall the second man. Frederick Wm. Cornelius John Hockey in every month . William Thomas Dening I William Edward Turner The following places are included in the sub-division :­ Retire in November, 1915. Buckland St. Mary, Chaffcombe, Chard, Comhe St. Alfred Thomas Bartlett ·1 Thomas John Jennings Ni('"bolas, Cricket St. Thomas, Knowle St. Giles, Warn­ Alfred Pepper Indge .Alfred Edwa..-d Washer brook, Whitestaunton & Winsham • .
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