386 STOKE ST. GB.EGOBY. SOMERSETSHIRE.

Garland Elizabeth (Mrs), Railway House Edward, yeoman, Walker's farm, North Daniel, blacksmith, Mare green HouseP.H Stathe Parker Robert, farmer, Woodhill Hearle Albert Wm. basket & chair makr House Richard, farmer, Stathe Parker Rt. jun. farmer, Hancock'sfrm Hector Benjamin, fruit dealer, Stathe House Thomas Trivett, yeoman, Chur- Pearce Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Hector J osephP. withy grower & farmer ley farm • Pipe George, farmer, Turkey Burrowbridge House Wm. farmer, Parsonage farm Pook Thomas Henry, farmer, Stathe Hector Philip, thatcher, Stathe House William, yeoman, Stathe court Rowsell Thomas, farmer, Huntham Bembrow Herbert, farmer, Dykes Jeanes Thomas, farmer, Frog lane Sanford Richard, shoe maker HembrowThomas, jun. yeoman,Sturt's Keirle l<'rapcis, withy mer. Woodhill Small James, farmer, Curry load farm Keirle Henry, farmer, Burrowbridge Squire Arthur, farmer & baker Hembrow Thomas, sen. farmer,Slough Keirle William, mason Thompson William, withy merchant Hem brow Thos. Alfd. farmer, Mare grn Keirle William Pim, shoe ma. Woodhill Wheadon John, dairy Hembrow William Brewer, yeoman, Kelson Albert, inn, Athelney Williams Albert, baker Huntham Lockyer Edward, farmer, Mare green Williams Elizabeth (Miss), draper & Berrington John, dairyman, Stathe Loveridge Henry, farrier, Woodhill grocer, Post office Hole Richard, farmer, Causeway farm Loveridge Samuel, Royal Oak P.H Winchester Hy. beer retailer & coal dlr House ()has. yeoman, River frm.Stathe Mitchem Edwin, withy grower & farmr Winchester Samue1, beer retailer Musgrave Geoffrey, basket & chair ma Wyatt Chatles, wheelwright, Lane end STOKE ST. MARY is a parish and village, on the hardinge Berkeley Portman H.A. of Magdalen College, road from to Chard, 2 miles east from Thorne Oxford, who residee at Thurlbear. Here is a Methodist station on the Chard branch of the Great Western railway, chapel, built in 1825. Stoke House is the residence of Col. about 3 south-east from the former town, in the Bridg- Henry Bethnne Patton J.P. Charles Cox is lord of the water division of the county, Taunton hundred, petty manor ; Viscount Polltman, Charles Ed ward J effries Esdaile .sessional division, union and county court district, and in esq. of House, and Col. Patton are the chief the rural deanery and archdeaconry of 'Taunton and diocese landowners. The soil is clayey ; subsoil, clay. The chief of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary is a small and crops are wheat and beans. The area is gu acres; rateable :-ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting value, [1,722; the population in 1891 was 231 • . of chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle, north porch and Parish Clerk and Sexton, Robert Trump. _an embattled western tower containing 4 bells: the east PosT 0FFICE.-Henry Darch, sub-postmaster. Letters window is stained, and there are sittings for 170 persons. from Taunton, through Shoreditch, arrive at 7.10 a.mt; ~The register of baptisms dates from the year 1676; box cleared at 6.xo p.m. every day, except sunday, maniages and burials, 1678. The living is a donative Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The neareat Tectory, net value £ss, annexed with that of Thurlbear to money order office is at Taunton & telegraph office at --the rectory of Orchard-Portman, joint net yearly value Hendale, :01 miles distant £3oo, including 33 acres of glebe, in the gift of Viscount Station, William Smith, constable in charge Portman, and held since 1885 by the Rev. Henry fitz- The children of this place attend Thurlbear school Lance Charles, Stoke court Darch Thomas, beer retailer Jemmett George, Half Moon P.H Lee William, Elm villa Dawe George, farmer, Stoke hill Rendell John, farmer&; miller (water), Maine Walter D. Meadow cottage Drew Caple Scudmore,farmer & butchr Broughton farm Patton Col. H. Bethune J.P. Stoke ho Eveleigh George, dairyman, Broughton Tapp Thomas, farmer Woodforde Miss Gov;er John, farmer, Stoke hill Trump Robert, blacksmith COMMERCIAL. Barman Henry, farmer, Stoke farm YeandleJas. farmer, Stoke Court farm Burt John, mason · Hull Wareham, thrashing machine Darch Henry, Post office proprietor STOKE ST. M:ICHAEL (or STOKE LANE) is a parish Buckingham or that family, who was assassinated at Porta- e and village on the road from l<'rome to Wells, 3 miles north mouth by Lieut. John Felton, 23 Aug. 1628. Captain from Cranmore station on the Witham and Wells branch of Wyndham Knatchbull J.F. of Babington, Bath, who is lord the Great Western railway and 4 north-east from Shepton of the manor, Richard Charles Strachey esq. of Ashwick, Mallet, in the Frome division of the county, Whitestone Mrs. John Maitland Spencer, of Hillylands, Ashwick, Miss hundred, Shepton Mallet petty sessional division and union, Agnes Drake and Augustus Drake esq. are the chief land­ Frome county court district, rural deanery of Shepton Mal- owners. The soil is light, producmg a sweet herbage ; the ilet, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. subsoil is limestone and water flint. The land is chiefly in ·The church of:St. Michael, rebuilt in 1838, with the excep- pasture for dairy purposes. The area is 3,744 acres; rate­ tion of the tower, at a cost of £xo4oo, is a building of stone able value, £3,496; the population in x8gx was 667 civil, in the Early English style, consistmg of chancel, nave, south 628 ecclesiastical. • porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, con· Parish Clerk, William tambert. taining a clock and 3 bells: there are sittings for 700 PosT OFFICE.-Edmund Perkins, sub-postmaster. Letters persons. The register dates from the year 1644. The living through Bath, arrive at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched at 5.40 is a vicarage, net yearly value £x4s, in the gift of the vicar p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. There of Doulting, and held since 1886 by the Rev. George Henry is a WALL LETTER Box, Crossways, cleared at 5.25 p.m. De l<'raine. Here are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist The nearest money order & telegraph office is at OakhiH, .chapels. There are charities of £ xoo, the interest of which 3 miles distant is given to the poor yearly in money and bread. Stoke A Hchool Board of s'members was formed June 221 187'1; House, the property of Mrs. John Maitland Spencer, of Frederick George Bradbury, Shepton Mallet, clerk tq the Hillylands, Ashwick, and now (1897) unoccupied, is three- board & attendance officer quarters of a mile north-west-by-north from the village. In Board School (mixed), erected in 1837 & enlar~;ed in xSg3, the manor of East End, in this parish, are the remains of a for 200 children; average attendance, 140; Alfred Chap- large and ancient house in the Elizabethan style, formerly lin Brewer, master; Mrs. Brewer, mistress; Miss :Bastin the property of the celebrated George Villiers, 1st Duke of & Miss Tilke, assistant mistresses De Fraine Rev. George Hy. Vicarage Huntley James, farmer, Hyatts farm Tilke John, dairy farmer, Stoke farm COMMERCIAL. . James Theophilus Tom, farmer,Blake's Treasure Henry, George, Alfred & Brewer Alfred Chaplin, schoolmaster,& farm Matthew, dairy farmers assistant overseer Moonshill Quarry (road stone) (Alfred Treasure Albin, dairy farmerl Rookery Clavey Martha (Mrs.) & Son, bakers Tapp, manager) farm Denning John, dairy farmer Oram Henry, dairy farmer Treasure Charles, dairy farmer, Pbip- Edwards John, dairy farmer,Batch frm Oram Wm. dairy farmer, Somer's farm pen's farm Ellis William ~Mrs.), dairy farmer, Osborne Emma (Mrs.), farmer- Moon's Treasure Sidney, grocer & general dlr Three Ashes Hill farm Treasure Theophilus, farmer,Fosse frm Giddings Ann (Mrs.), dairy farmer Padfield Edmund John, dairy farmer, Treasure Theophilus, Knatchbu}l Arms Gilson Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Goldsborough farm P.H. & dairy farmer Green Edwd. dairy farmer,Tanyardfm Perkms Edmund, shopkpr. Post office Viney Thomas, boot maker Green Jas. dairy farmer, Manor House Rich Eliza (Miss), beer retlr. Brickdale Wallen George, baker farm Stock Albert & Son, corn millers, Stoke West William, shopkeeper Hedges Albert, farmer, Dunford farm water mill Wrintmore Edwin, beer retlr. & haulier Hiscox Carolina (Mrs.), farmer Swayne Mark, road contractor SOUTH STOKE is a parish and village, bounded on the Weston petty sessional division, Bath Forum hundred, Bath east by the county of Wilts, with a station called Midford · union and county court district, and in the rural deanery on the and Dorset joint railway, and is 2! miles and archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of Bath and Wells. south from Bath, in the l<'rome division of the county, The Somersetshire coal canal runs through this parish.