336 SPARKFORD. SUM:ERSETSHIRE. (KELLY'S

SPARKFORD is a parish and village, 134 miles from have been presented to the Somersetshire Archreologicat London, st south-west from and 8 south-west Society's museum, 'faunton. A repository sale is held at from Wincanton, with a station on the Wilts, and the Sparkford inn every alternate Monday. Sparkford Weymouth branch of the , in the Hall, situated in park-like grounds with an entran~.--e drh•e, Eastern division of the county, Catsashhundred, Wincanton on the high road from Sparkford to Ilchester, is the resi­ petty sessional division, union and county court district, deuce of Henry Edward Bennett esq. J.P. who is lord of tbe rural deanery of Cary, archdeaconryof Taunton and diocese manor and chief landowner. The soil is sandy clay, and of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary Magdalene is a the subsoil is blue clay and marl. The chief crops are wheat, building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, beans and orchard produce; this is also a fine dairy country. nave, south transept and a fine embattled western tower The acreage is 983; rateable value, £2,453; the population with pinnacles containing 3 bells, one of which is very ancient in 1881 was 253. • and bears the following inscription:-" Sancta Catharina Parish Clerk, James Talbot. ora pro nobis: "the church was rebuilt, with the exception PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Sarah Alliston, receiver. Letters al'l'ive of the tower, in 1824, and has sittings for 120 persons. The from Bath at 7 a. m. & 1 p.m. ; dispatched at 7 p.m. week register dates from 1729. The living is a rectory, average days only. The nearest money order & telegraph office tithe rent-charge £215, including 40 acres of glebe, with is at Queen Camel house, in the gift of H. E. Bennett esq. J.P. and held since National School (mixed), erected in 1849, for 6o children; 1874 by the Rev. Charles William Bennett. Roman remains average attendance, 46; Mrs. Albertina Penny, mistress have been found here, as well as bronze celts, some of which Railway Station, Levi Mallett, station master Bennett Rev. Charles William, Rectory Isaacs Elizabeth (Mrs.), coal dealer Somerset Trading Go .importers of slates Bennett Henry Edwd. J.P.Sparkford hall Isaacs George, agent to Great Western & foreign timber, coal, coke, salt, corn, COMMERCIAL. Railway Co. & coal merchant linseed & cotton cake, meal, manure Alliston John Jas. shopkeeper,Post office Ivey James, carpenter & general merchants; pipes, tiles & Barrett Sidney, shoe maker James William, miller (water) & farmer all kinds of brickyard goods in stock Brain John (Mrs.), farmer Kynaston Charles, shopkeeper ( Josiah Bush, agent), Railway station ; Church of EnglandTemperancelnstitute Kynaston George, shopkeeper MaFstonMagna; chief office,Bridgwatr & Library (James· Talbot, sec.; Rev. Penny John Jas.Green, painter &glazier f Talbot James, carpenter C. W. Bennett, librarian) Read John, Sparkford inn 1 Waiter Philip, farmer Dampier Robert, blacksmith Saunders Hannab(Mrs.),frmr.Woodside a Wride William, farmer, Sparkford farm SPAXTON is a parish and village, situated under the ton, in this parish. Edward James Stanley esq. M.P., M:.A., Quantock hills, 6 miles west from Bridgwater station on the J.P. of Quantock Lodge, Over Stowey, and the Hon. Mrs. Bristol and Exeter section of the Great Western railway, in Stanley, who is lady of the manor, are the principal land­ the Bridgwater division of the county, western division of owners. The soil is red clay, and the .subsoil stone. The Cannington hundred, Bridgwater petty sessional division, chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The acreage is union and county court district, rural deanery of Bridgwater, 3,563; rateable value, £5,959 ; the population in 188 r was archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. 916. The church of St. Margaret is a building of stone, in the FouR FoRKs, half a mile east, and MERRIDGE, 2 miles Later English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle south-by-west, are hamlets of this parish. and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a Parish Clerk and Sexton, Tom West. clock and 5 bells: there is an altar tomb to an unknown knight: the east window is a memorial to the Rev. James Galloway, PosT OFFICE, Four Forks.-William Chamberlain, receiver. late rector, and was erected in 1374 by his family: there are Letters through Bridgwater arrive at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched sittings for 300 persons. The register dates from 155s. at 6 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is The living is a rectory, gross yearly value£664, including 66 at Cannington. Postal orders are issued here, but not acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held since paid r874 by the Rev. Arthur James Bowen B. A. of Caius College, WALL Box at Spaxton cleared at 5.30 p.m. week days only Cambridge, and J.P. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, and there National School (mixed), erected in 186o, to hold 130 chil- is a Congregational chapel at Merridge, constructed of iron. dren; average attendance, Ioo; Edwin Wadmore, master; A religious community, termed Princites, wt>re established Miss Emma West, mistress in 1s4s at Four Forks. Cooke's charity consists of six alms- District School (Merridge), for Aisholt & Spaxton (mixed), houses for poor men or women, who each receive 2s. weekly erected in 1874, for 70 children; average attendance, 5I ; with coals, light and clothing. The poor's land produces Miss Mary Graf, mistress £6o yearly. The pumping station and tanks of the Bridg- CARRIER TO BnmGWATER.-John Puwell (Four Forks), mon. water water works are situated at Ashford, near Canning- wed. & sat. returning same day Altham Mrs. Timbercombe Culverwell Chas. farm bailiff to Edwd. Parsons James, miller (water) & farmer, Bowen Rev. Arthur James B.A., J.P. Jas. Stanleyesq. M.P. Tuckswell farm Crockers mill Rectory Dowdall George, farmer, Winters farm Pocock Chas. poultry dealer, Merridge Brameld Clement Neville, Pightley ho Dyment William John, shopkeeper Porter Dan, assistant overseer Galloway Misses, Pightley cottage Evered Robert William Cha.rd, farmer, Porter Edwin, farmer, Merridge Galloway William George, Bush park Cridland farm Porter John, Travellers' Rest P.H. & Nicholls JohnThomas,Crossfield[Letters Gulliford Waiter, farmer, Postridge lime burner, Men-idge through Cannington] Hardwill James,farmer, Waterpits farm Porter N a than, farmer, Halsey Cross Herniman Edwin, farmer & butcher, fLetters through Nether Rtowey] COMMERCIAL. Steven's farm PowellJn.Lamb inn,&carrier,Four forks Bailey William, miller (water), Splatt Hill Charles, blacksmith, Merridge Sanders Mary & Jane (Misses), dress Banfield George, farmer, Little Holwell Howe Samuel, farmer & landowner, makers, Four forks Blackmore Geo. farmer, Great Holwell Merridge Sayer Dan, millwright & farmer,Greens Bond Samuel, cow keeper Hurford Charles, carpenter, Four forks SmithJn.castrator & sheep dipper,Keen- Bousie John, farmer, Splatt farm Hurley John, farmer, Ebsley farm thorne[Letters througbNetherStowy] Bradbeer Henry, dairyman, Lambridge Lane William, carpenter, Merridge Sparks Henry, miller(water),Cun-ypror Bryant Gabriel & Co. grocers, bakers Leach William, stone mason, Four forks Sully Ernest Cracker, grocer &c &c. Four forks Lock John, Bell P.H. Merridge WalthamThos.Perrett,farmr.Court frm Bullingham Joseph Gould, farmer, May William, Crown P.H Waterman George, timber merchant & Holmes farm Mayo Alfred, Victoria Arms P.H saw mills, Fonr forks Burland Fredk. cowkeeper, Currypool NormanJane(Mrs. ),farmr.Pightley frm West Mrs. Elizh. blacksmith, Four forks. Chamberlain William, grocer & wheel- Norman Thomas, farmer, Merridge West Tom, blacksmith wright, Post office, Four forks Palmer Chas. grocer & draper, Merridge STANDERWICK is a village, 4 miles east-north-east from railway station, and on the road to Bath from Warminster. This parish on March 25th, 1885, was by the "Divided Parishes Act" divided between Beckington an