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DIRECTORY] SOMERSET. SELWORTHY. 407 • COHMEllCIA.L. *Hosegood Thomas, farmer, .A.ller Thomas Ernest Harry, tailor *Bond William 0. farmer, Catwell J enkin.s Arbhur Henry, tailor Thomas John, relieving officer Dnrie Charles, district surveyor Kerslak0 James & Son, blacksmiths Eastern district, Williton union Grandfi.eld Ernest Jas. miller(water) Langdon Winifred (Miss),shopkeeper, *White Fredk. frmr. Torweston farm Grove Albert Henry, carpenter Post office Yandle John, farmer SANDFORD, see Winscombe. SANDFORD ORCAS has, since March 1896, been transferred to the County of Dorset. SEABOROUGH parish has been transferred to the County of Dorset from March, I8g6. SEAVINGTON ST. MARY is a parish and village, amounting to £33 a year. Here is a United Methodist on the London and Exeter r.oad, 3 miles east from Il chapel, built in c~859, and a Wesleyan chapf)l, in I885-.. minster station on the Chard branch of the Great West Col. Arthnr Vaughan Hanning Vaughan-Lee, of Dilling ern railway and 5 north-west from Crewkerne, in the ton Park, llminster, is lord of the manor and chief land Southern division of the county, hundred of South Pether owner. The soil is chie:H.y light sandy loam and arable • ton, llminster petty sessional division, union of Chard, land. The crops are wheat, barley and beans. The Crewkerne county court district, rural deanery -of Crew acreage is 1,106; rateable value, £1,904; the populatio,p • kerne, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and ID I9II WaS 222, Wells. The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice of Seavington Abbot is a tithing in this parish half a stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, mile north-east. south porch and a tower containing 3 bells, and was re By Local Government Board Order 16,420. March 25, stored in 188o at the expense of V. H, Vaughan-Lee esq. 1885, a detached part of Ilton known as Boxstone Hill was J. and T. Naish esqrs. and the vicar, at a cost of i,3oo; added to Seavington St. Mary. the tower and belfry were restored in 1896, towards which Capt. A. V. H. Vaughan-Lee contributed: there are sit Parish Clerk, William Vaux. tings for 180 persons. The reg-ister dates from the year Post Office (letters should have Somerset added).-Mrs. 1698. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £75• Ann Yole, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive at 4.15 with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of a.m. & 5.10 p.m.; dispatched at 4·15 a.m. & 2.30 & Bristol, and held since 1912 by the Rev. David Stephen 9.15 p.m. week days only. Shepton Beauchamp, t! J:vans B.A. of St. David's College, Lampeter, who is miles distant., is the nearest telegraph office & South also re(Jtor of Seavington St. Michael. The hamlet of Petherton the nearest money order office, .3 miles HUBCOT, about I mile north-west, and formerly in the distant parish of Ilton, was formed into an ecclesiastical district Wall Letter Box, cleared at 7.40 a.m. & 7.30 p.m. week and added to the parish of Seavington St. Mary, May 14, days only 1875; the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have augmented the benefice by a grant of the rectorial tithes formerly The children of this place attend Seavington St. Michael belonging to the prebend of Ilton in Wells cathedral and school - PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Je:ffrey Frank, farmer, West street Evans Rev. David Stephen B.A. Brock Seaward, farmer, Upton farm Poole George, landowner & farme1,.. (vicar, Seavington St. Mary & rec- Jacobs Samuel Robert, landowner & Mead farm tor,Seavington St.Michael),Vicarage farmer, Manor farm Rowswell Frederick, farmer Hardip.g Miss, Heathstone cott-age Jacobs William Wheadon, farmer, Tucker Fred, hawker Horsey Mrs. Glencoe house Hurcott farm Vaux Wm. wheelwright & carpent~r- SEAVINGTON ST. MICHAEL is a small parish I St. David's College, Lam peter, who is also vicar of and and village on the road from Langport to Crewkerne, 4 resides at Seavington St. Mary. The Warden and miles east from Ilminster station on the Chard branch of Fellows of St. Mary's College, Winchester, are lords of the Great Western railway, and 5 north-west from Crew- the manor, and the land is divided between several kerne, in the Southern division of the county, llminster owners. The soil is light sandy loam and chie:H.y arable petty sessional division, hundred of South Petherton, land. The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. county court district of Crewkerne, union of Chard, rural The acreage is 286; rateable value, £729; population in deanery of Crewk'erne, archdeaconry of Taunton and dio- 19II, 137 in the civil parish and 245 in the ecclesiastical cese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Michael is parish (which includes pa.rt of Dennington). a small but ancient building of stone in the Early Parish Clerk, William Vaux. English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch Letters should have Somerset added. For arrivals & and a turret containing 3 bells: attached to the outside dispatch of letters see Seavington St. Mary. The of the chancel wall is an ancient stone effigy without nearest telegraph office is at Shepton Beauchamp, Il· any inscription: there are sittings for 138 persons. The miles distant & the nearest money order office is at register dates from the year 1689. The living is a rec- South Petherton, 2 miles distant tory, net yearly value £158, including 39 acres of glebe, Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1842, for· with residence, in the gift of Earl Poulett, and held 8o children ; average attendance, 70 ; Miss Rachael since 1912 by the Rev. David Stephen Evans B.A. of Kiddle, mistress Buckrell Mrs · Burrows John, emigvation agent Rousell Fdlr.Wm.threshng. mach.ownr- Hole Robert, The Beoohes Cook A. K. & Co. collar manufrs Rowswell John, blacksmith Poole Misses Gayleard Robert Elias, baker Rowswell Netta (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hutchings Charles, that.cher Tolley Henry, Volunteer inn COMM~:RCIAL. Napper William, shopkeeper Warry Richard, butcher & farmer- .Ash Fred, carpenter Poole J ames, farmer SEL WOOD, see Frome. SELWORTHY is a parish and village, half a mile Apology for the Church of England," ordered to be from the high road from Minehead to Porlock, 4! miles provided by every parish in the reign of Edward the west from Minehead terminal station on the West VI.; there are memorial windows to Joshua StephensoJl Somerset branch of the Great Western railway, 2! east M.A. rector 1802 to 1863, and to the Rev. Andrew from Porlock and 13 west from Williton, in the Western Anderson: the church was entirely restored and the division of the county, hundred of Carhampton, Dunster roof of the nave painted in 1874 by the late Right Hon. petty sessional division, union and county court district Sir T. D. Acland hart. P.C. at a cost of £r,5oo, and in of Williton, rural deanery of Dunster, archdeaconry of I8gr the north aisle was new roofed and reseated at a Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The Horner cost of £545: there are sittings for 270 persons. Jn stream, passing on the south-west side of the parish, the churchyard are the remains of an ancient stone forms the boundary between Selworthy and Luccombe, cross about 12 feet in height. The churchyard was and after receiving a rivulet at the hamlet of Bossing enlarged in 1898. The registers date from the year ton, falls into the sea. The church of All Saints is an 1673, and there is .... also part of an earlier register of ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style, Elizabethan date. The living is a rectory, net year\y consisting of caancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south value £I8o, including 57 acres of glebe, with residenc.~t, porch and an embattled western tower containing a in the gift of Sir Charles Thomas Dyke Acland hart. and clock and 6 bells: there are several monuments and held since 1912 by the Rev. Willia.m Tofield Reeder M.A. brasses, principally to the Staynings and Acland of Clare College, Cambridge. Part of the rectory house families, former lords of the manor, by whom the south dates from the 14th century, and attached is a 15th aisle, in the Toof of which there is some delicate oak century tithe barn. Henry Byam, chaplain to Charles carving, was rebuilt in 1490: in the church, secured by II. was rector here 1617. In the hamlet of TIVINGTON a chain, is a copy of Bishop Jewel's " Defence of his is the Minehead and West Williton Hospital District .