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. ; dispatched at 5·25 p. m. ; no her brother, Mr. Gatchell: a handsome churchyard cross, collection or delivery on sundays. Postal orders arB 12 feet in height, has been erected by subscription, as a issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order & memorial to the Rev. W. F. Chilcott, late rector : the church telegraph office is at Stogumber, 3 miles distant was restored in 1874, and has sittings for 120 persons. The WALL LETTER Box, Woodford, cleared at 5.10 p.m. week. register dates from the year 1620. The living is a rectory, days only net yearly value £2oo, including 33 acres of glebe, With National School (mixed), erected in 1846 & enlarged in residence, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, 1870, for 6o children; average attendance, 25; Francis. and held since 1Bg6 by the Rev. Norman King. Marwood John Salter, master King Rev. Norman, Rectory Hill Ann (Mrs.), draper & grocer Mason Richard, boot & shoe maker Scutt Ernest, Merry hou'3e Hole Charles, carpentP.r Notley Mejiah, farmer COMMERCIAL. Hole Emily (Mrs.), dress maker Sheppard Simon, farmer Branchflower John, thatcher Hole Frederick, shopkeeper Shorney Egerton John, faTmer Duddridge Thomas John, gardener to Hole John, blacksmith, Post office Snell A.Ibert, farmer M. N otley esq Lovell J esse, boot & shoe maker Ware John, N otley Arms inn MONKTON COMBE (CoMBE MONCKTON) is a paTish ment. On Combe Down are the laTgest stone qmuries im and village, bounded on the south and east by the county of the neighbourhood, and the stone obtained undeT the name Wilts, 1 mile west from Limpley Stoke station on the Wilts of " Bath stone" is largely used. William Vaughan-Jenkins and Somerset branch of the Great Western railway and 3! esq. of Combe Grove, is loTd of the manor, and the trustees south-east from Bath, in the Frome division of the county, of the late Right Rev. Mgr. Charles Parfitt D. D. are chief eastern division of the hundred of Bath Forum, Weston landowners. The soil is loam and clay; subsoil, stone. Tb& petty sessional division, county court district and union of chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 675 Bath, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of acres of land and n of water; rateable value, £6,8o7; the­ • Bath and Wells. The church of St. Michaelis a building of population in 1891 was 1,760. stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave Parish Clerk, Frank Richards. of three bays, aisles, north porch and a western saddleback PosT OFFICE.-Miss Elizabeth Orchard, sub-postmistress. tower containing a clock and 2 bells: the north aisle was Letters from Bath, arrive at 7.15 a. m. & 2.45 p.m. ; dis,. added in 1881 : the church has been entirely rebuilt at a patched at 9.50 a. m. 4·45 & 8.10 p.m. week days; sun... cost of £1,533, and affords sittings for 290 persons. The days, dispatched at g.x5 a.m. Postal orders are issued register of baptisms and burials dates from the year I 561 ; here, but not paid. The nearest money order office is at marriages, I599· The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Combe Down & nearest telegraph office at Limpley Stok&, £70, and residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since 2 miles distant · 1883 by the Rev. David Lee Pitcairn H.A. of Magdalen WALL LETTER Box, Brassknocker hill, cleared at 8.40 a.m. College, Oxford. The Mount Pleasant Church Mission & 3.40 p.m. ; sundays, 8.40 a.m chapel will seat. 40 persons; there is also a Congregational National School (mixed), erected in 1865, for 72 children; chapel. In the parish are some remains of a Roman settle- average attendance, 65; Miss Kate Kellaway, mistress [Marked thus • receive letters through *Watkins John William, Mayfield *Hayden Alfred,farmer,Kingham farm Combe Down direct,] coMMERCIAL. James Hy. insurance agt. Viaduct cot Ashman Thomas Robert, St. Winifred Bath & District High Level Water Law Joseph,farmer, Combe Grove farm Bryan Wilmot Eardley M.A Works Co. Limited (Henry Butcher, Matthews Robert, baker & grocer Clerk Mrs. Frederick, Combe grange sec.); offices, Bath Monkton Combe School (Rev. R. G. Freeman Thos. Richard, Manor house Davis William, market gardener, Belle Bryan H.A. principal; Wilmot Eard- Knott Rev. Jn. Clark M. A. Combe Hill ho Vue cottage · ley Bryan M. A. vice-principal) Morrison Lieut. -Col. Wm. SouthView ho Freeman Thomas Richard, flock manu- OrchardElizh. (Miss),grocer,&post office Pitcairn Rev. David Lee M. A. Vicarage facturer, Monkton Combe mills Parrish Robert, Wheelwrights' ArmsP.H Smart Rev. John Racster M.A. [curate] Harding Herbert Henry, Viaduct hotel Wicks Alfred, farmer, Church farm Va.ughan-Jenkins Wm. Combe grove Harris John, mason , WEST MONKTON (otherwise MoNKTON) is a parish 166o: in 1884 the church was restored at a cost of about and village, on the main road from Taunton to Bridgwater, £t,ooo, under the direction of Mr. G. C. Strawbridge, 3 miles west from Durston station on the main line of the architect of Taunton, when aisles were added to the chancer, Great Western railway, 4 miles north-east from Taunton choir stalls erected, the chancel roof raised and restored, the and 7 south-by-west from Bridgwater, in the Bridgwater church reseated with oak benches, new pulpit and font of division of the county, hundred of Whitley, Taunton petty BeeT stone substituted for those previously in use, the tower sessional division, union and county court district, and in arch opened and other work carried out, in the course of the rural deanery and archdeaconry of 'faunton and which the ancient rood loft staircase was discovered, and, diocese of Bath and Wells. The river Tone and the Taunton in the chancel wall, a two-light square-headed window, and Bridgwater canal pass through the south part of this which has been re-set and glazed; a figure of St. Augus­ parish. The church of St. Augustine is a building of stone tine has been placed ov~ the doorway : there are sittings in the Early English and Later styles, consisting of chancel for 250 persons : in the churchyard are two fine yew trees with aisles, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and the old parish stocks and whipping post, both in good and lofty embattled western tower of rag stone of the 14th preservation. The parish register dates from the year 1710. century, containing 6 bells: the chancel arch, one of the The living is a rectory, net yearly value £500, including 45 earliest parts of the church, appears to date from about acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of trustees, and x240 or 1250; the nave was probably erected m the middle j held since x882 by the Rev. Frederick Charles King lake M. A. of the 15th century and the west doorway is a good example of Ohrist Church, Oxford. The charities are of £35 yearly of Early Perpendicular: there are several original pis1.:inre, value, of which £23 15s. is distributsd in kind and £xo 2s. and t~ of wall-painting were met w1th at the restor- in money, the rem&inder being asstgned to educational ation ; the reredos is of Beer stone, and there are sedilia of purposes. In the village IS ~n ancient hospital for lepers, old oak, presented by the present rector: the stained east now an almshouse, founded in the 12th century, and rebuilt window is a memorial to the Rev. William Chapman by Richard Beere, abbot of Glastonbury, in the 15th Kinglake H. A. rector 1838-83: there are memorials in the century and on the exterior is a panel displaying his initials, church to Richard Musgrave esq. 1727, with arms, and to surmounted by a mitre; a simple wooden cloister extends others of this family ; Rev. Timothy Locket H.A. rector, alon~ the front: for a more extended account see TAUNTON. 1688; Rev. Alexander l'opham LL.B. rector, 1738, and Walford House, the seat of Mrs.