D!RECTORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. .ASHBRI'rTLE. 25 given by friends of the parish, the total cost amounting to Parish Clerk, John . £635: the nave was restored in 1897 at a oost of £220: there are 250 sittings. The register dates from the year PosT OFFICE. John Pa.lmer Rodford, sub-postmaster. 1841. The living is a vicarage, net. yearly value £275, in­ Letters through Martock R.S. 0. received at 7 a. m. & 6. 25 cluding 3 acres of glebe and house. in the gift of the vicar p.m.; dispatched 6.25 p.m.; snndays received 6.25 a. m.; of Martock, and held since 1889 by the Rev. Arthur Henry dispatched 7-25 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but Kearney. The principal landowners are H.R.H. the Duke not paid. Nearest money order & telegraph office is at of Cornwall K.~,r.; Augustus Wood-Acton esq. of Church Martock, 2 miles distant Stretton, Salop ; the representatives of Henry Best Hull esq.; J. Morey esq. and Vincent Stnckey esq. of Hill House, Church of England School (mixed), built in 1846 & enlarged Langport. The soil is clay ; subsoil, marly clay. The chief in 1892 at a cost of £214,for 105 children; average attend... crops are beans and wheat. The area is 1,874 acres; rate­ ance, 95; Miss H. Clarke, mistress able value, £4,214; the population in 1891 was 461. Ash. Hawkins Francis John Highmoor, col­ Milton,. Brown·Edward, Boleym house lector of rates for Langport district Cribb Mary (Miss), shopkeeper Carnegie-Cheales John, Highlands drainage board Cridland Ernest Richd. Stuckey,farmer Hebditch Mrs. The Villa Hayne George, thatcher & farmer Cridland Vile Board, farmer 1 Kearney Rev. Arthur Henry, Vicarage Head Edwin James, mason Morey Jane (Mrs.), farmer Wilkie Major Arthur Alexander Hodges George, farmer, Ash farm Jacobs John, farmer COMMERCIAL, Lemon John Robert, farmer Witcombe. Beckey John, blacksmith Look Emmeline (Mrs.), farmer Harris John, farmer Bush Henry, mason Morey Jn. Seymour,farmr.Manor farm Lock Nancy (Mrs.), farmer Culliford Hy. road contractor & farmer Rodford John Palmer,builder,Post office Marks Francis, farmer Dowle John, Freemasons' Arms P.H Sealey Robert, carpenter, Durnfield Peach Samuel, farmer & pig dealer Frampton Alfred Ernest, shopkeeper & Smithera.m John, beer retailer Worner Octavius, farmer wheelwright W orner William, farmer

ASH PRIORS is a small village and parish, I mile Acland Lethbridge bart D.L., ;r.P. lord of the manor anl north-west from station on the Minehead principal landowner, is partly in this parish, but the house is and West branch of the Great Western railway, 6 in Bishops Lydeard parish. The soil is a sandy loam, and north-west from and 5 north-east from Wivelis­ produces good crops of wheat, barley, oats,mangold wnrtzel, combe, in the Western division of the county, hundred of potatoes and turnips. The area is 635 acres ; rateable value, Kingsbnry West, Bishops Lydeard petty sessional division, £t,ox8; the population in 1891 was 128 in the civil and 140 Taunton union and county court district, rural deanery of in the ecclesiastical parish. Wellington, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath By Local Government Board Order x6,397, which came and Wells. The church of the Holy Trinity is an edifice of into operation March 24, 1884, North and South Lodge were stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of added to Bishops Lydeard from this parish, and Denbury three bays, aisles, north porch and a battlemented western House and farm transferred from the former to the latter. tower containing 6 bells: some of the windows are Perpen­ Parish Clerk, Thomas Hobbs. dicular: the church was completely restored in 1874 at a Letters are received through Bishops Lydeard R.S.O. cost of about £x,6oo, and has 164 sittings. The register at 7 a. m. WALL LETTER Box cleared at 6. 15 p. m. ; sun­ dates from 1700. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly clays at 9· so a. m. Bishops Lydeard, 1 mile distant, is the value £73• in the gift of Sir W. A. Lethbridge hart. and nearest money order & telegraph office held since 1855 by the Rev. Vanghan Campbell Day M. A. of Parochial School (mixed), erected in x83o, for 50 children; New Inn Hall, Oxford. Sandhill Park, the seat of Sir Wroth average attendance, 30; Miss Mary Ann Pepper, mistress Day Rev.VaughanCampbellM.A.[vicar] Branchflower George, shopkeeper Purchase Mary (Mrs.), Park Gate P.H Little Rev. George Savile Lumley B.A. Hobbs Wm. wheelwright & shopkeeper Stevens Thomas, shoe maker [curate], The Priory Permenter James, farmer, Pitpear Webber William, blacksmith

• is a village and parish, on the chancel, nave and a western turret containing one bell and on the high road from Wellington to Hampton; it is there are xoo sittings. The trustees of the late Charles bounded on the south and west by the county of Devon, and Rowcliffe, who are lords of the manor, Sir Edward William is 3 miles south-east from Venn Cross station on the Devon Watkin hart. of Northenden, Cheshire, Mrs. Quicke, Charles and Somerset branch and 4 north-west- from Burlescombe Arthur William3 Troyte esq. of Huntsham Court, Devon, station on the Bristol and Exeter section of the main line of and J ohrt Brown esq:· al'e the chief landowners. The soil is the Great Western railway, 7 south from W1veliscombe very varied, and the subsoil chiefly slate. The crops are and 7 west from Wellington, in the Western division of the mostly wheat, barley and oats. The area is 2,043A. 2R. county, hundred of Milverton, Wellington petty sessional x6P. ; rateable value, £2,046; the population in 1891 was division, union and county court district, t-wral deanery of 247 in the civil and 308 in the ecclesiastical parish. Wellington, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath G.REENHAM, a. hamlet 2 miles south-east from the parish and Wells. The church of St. John the Baptist is a church, was, by Local Government Board Order 16,381, building of stone in the Early Perpendicular style, consist­ which came into operation March 25, x884, amalgamated ing of .chancel, nave of three bays, north aisle, south porch with ; and at the same date Great and Little and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells: the Brimley were also annexed to it and a detached part of tower and chancel were rebuilt and the nave restored in Mil verton added. ;1874. when a clock was placed in the tower at the cost of Parish Clerk, John Milton. the present rector : the east and several other windows are PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.­ stained : there are 300 sittings. The register dates from Mrs. Louisa Hill, sub-postmistress. Letters from Wel~ zs63. The living is a rectory, net yearly value .£420, lington by foot post are received at 8.45 a. m. & dispatched including 76 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of at 4.25 p.m. Greenham is the nearest telegraph office, 3 John Quicke esq. of Newton St. Cyres, Devonshire, and l).eld miles distant since 1859 by the Rev. Charles Penrose Quicke B.A. of A School Board of 5 members was formed September 3o, Trinity College, Oxford. St. Peter's chapel of ease, near 1874, for the united district of Ashbrittle & Stawley; Tremlett House, Greenham, built in 186o, on land given by Thomas Palmar, Stawley, is clerk to the board Thomas Edward Clarke esq. formerly of Tremlett, is an The childreu of this place attend the Board school at edifice of stone iJl the Early English style, consisting of Appley, in the parish of Stawley Clark John Edward, lryrle house Cude J ames, carpenter Kerslake Henry, blacksmith Crichton William J. Manley house Edbrooke William, farmer, Court place Lamprey Jas. mason, & temperance hotl Edwards Lady, The Mansion Ooddard John,farmer,Gt. Tadbeer far01 Mills William, farmer, Tucks Edwards Sir John Henry Priestley Goddard Thomas, farmer, Doble farm OxenhamSusan( Mrs. ),farmer,N ormans Churchill bart. The Mansion Hill Edward, farmer, Hagley bridge Pearce John, dairyman, Chackeridge Quicke Rev. CharlesPenrose B.A. Rectory Hill Martin, dairyman, N ormans Rattenbury Jn. farmer, East Northcott Worsley Capt. Arthnr,The Old vicarage Hill Louisa (Mrs.), sub-postmistress, Taylor James, higgler COMMERCIAL. Post office Vickery Edwin, carpenter & farmer, :Broom J ames, farmer, Waldross Hill William E. grocer, Post office Dishwell farm Coles Alfred, farmer, N orthcott Howse John, farmer, Burrow farm Waller Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Westcott Coles George, farmer, Pool farm Harford Robert, thatcher Wensley James, dairyman, Shamwoods poles William, farmer, Pitt farm j '