DIRECTORy.j SOMERSET. ISLE BREWERS. 293 Thome Thomas, blacksmith, East street Welch Samuel, farmer, Cross farm Tr.ott &, Baldock, hardware dealers. East street West of England Sack Co. Lim. (Bradford &, Sons Lim. Trott Florence (Miss), dress maker, High street agents) • Turner Henry William, coal, coke, salt &, general mer­ West John, wheelwright, Silver street chant, timber merchant &, steam saw mills, Coal wharf, Westcott John vVilliam, Five Dials P.H. Higher Horton Station road Wheadon Edward, grocer, Silver street V'glow Percy, draper, Silver street Wheadon Robert Poole, general draper, tailor &, outfitter, Vile Georgina (Miss), dress maker, East street millinery, mantle & dress making, hosier, hatter, glover, Vincent Samuel WaIter, farmer, Winterhay ladies' habit maker, family mourning &, funeral fur­ Walden Charles, beer retailer, Ditton street nisher, Leices,ter house ·Walter Richard Tertius RA. solicitor, commissioner for Wilkins William Thomas, butcher, Higher Horton oaths, clerk to the &Chool board &, Conserva.tive regis­ Willy Thomas, rope &, twine manufacturer, Sea tration agent for IIminster &, Curry Mallett polling dis­ Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited (branch) (Albert tricts, Market place Basil Crees, manager), Market place; draw on London Warry George William, civil engineer &, surveyor, Ditton st & Westminster Bank Limited, London EC Welch George, family grocer, provision dealer &, italian Winter James, grocer, Cross warehouseman, tea &, coffee merchant; all goods Winter John, coal dealer & greengrocer, West street guaranteed of the best quality, West Central stores Wride Thomas, farmer, Horton Welch ~I\.lfred, farmer, Love lane Yandle &, Sons, cycle makers, West street ILTON is a village and parish on tha river Ile, 2 miles aged people. Within this parish was the ancient manor north from Ilminster station on the Chard branch of the house of Merrifield, formerly the residence of Sir Nicholas Great Western railway, in the Bridgwater division of the and Dorothy Wadham, founders in 1610 of the college county, hundred of Abdick and Bulstone. Ilminster petty of that name in Oxford: the moat and the basement sessional division, Chard union and county court district, portion of one of the towers are still in existence. Wm. rural deanery of Ilminster, archdeaconry of Taunton and Wyndham esq. of Dinion House, Salisbury, owns the diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Peter is an manor and chief portion of the land. The soil is gravelly edifice of stone in the Early Decorated and Perpendicular and the soosoil is gravel. The chief crops are wheat, .'!tyles, consisting of chancel with north aisle. nave, south beans, oats and flax. The area is 1.668 acres; rateable 'transept and a tower on the south side, adjoining the value, £2,315; the population in 1901 was 332 in the transept and containing 4 bells: the base of the tower civil and 364 in the ecclesiastical parish. forms a porch: in the arch of the north chapel are four By Local Government Board Order 16,420, Mi\rch 25, 'brasses, including one with effigy in shroud to ~icholas r88.'j, Boxstone Hill was transferred from TIton to Seaving­ Wadham, ob. 1508, son of Nicholas Wadham, captain of ton St. Mary; by Order 17,6--f7, Clayhanger was trans­ Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wig-ht, 14 Henry VII. ferred from Whitelackington to Ilton; and by Order (149'8-9), who was grandfather of Nicholas Wadham, 16,4-20, part of Ilton, known as Rapps, was amalgamated founder of Wadham College, .oxford: the church was with Ashill for civil purposes. restored in 1860 and has sittings for 1250 persons. The Sexton, Alfred Mead. register dates from the year 1642. The living is a vicar- .age, net yearly value £154, including 12 acres of glebe, Post Office. Alfred Mead, sub-postmaster. Letters re- with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and ceived through Ilminster at 6·50 a.m.; dispatched at Wells, and held sinceI879 by the Rev. Robert Blake Poole 7.50 a.m. &, 6.20 p.m. week day'! only. iPostal orders M.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford, and rural dean of are issued here, but not paid. Ilminster, 4 miles Ilminster. The appropriate tithe and glebe are of the distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office yearly value of £100. Here is a Wesle-yan: chapel. There National School (mixed), erected in 1875, for 80 children; are charities of £104 yearly value, and almshouses for 17 average attendance, 54; Fredk. Jas. Johnson, master J"effery William Goodland Ben, farmer, Ashford farm Jou:xson Thomas Edwin, shoe maker 1>oole Rev. Robert Blake M.A. (vicar &. Goodland Samson, fa-rmer Mead Alfred, Post office rural dean), Vicarage Grabham Joshua, miller (water) &. Moore William, dairyman COMMERCIAL. farmer, Ashford mill Richards Ellen (Mrs.), grocer & pro~ .A.dams J ames, dairyman, Ilford Grainger William, tailor vision dealer, draper &, milliner & .!.dams Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer Harcombe Samuel, farmer . boot &; shoe dealer Adams William, Wyndham Arms P.H Hayman George-, baker Slade Charles Henry, farmer, Chapple Crabb Samuel Webb, farmer, Ilford Bayman Richard, wheelwright, car· farm, Ilford Dollen Elizh. (Mrs.),farmr. Cad's frm penter & undertaker, agricultural Stanton Geo. agricultural machinist. Downton Jame8, wholesale &; retail machinist, coach builder &c.; light . dairy engineer &, agent for all the butcher; & at West ·st. Ilminster &, heavy work, Cad green best implement makers Yewing John, farmer, Woodhouse Jeffery John, farmer, Ilford Trump John, farmer ISLE ABBOTTS is a village and parish on the west of the manor, the Uttermare familv, the Egremont family bank of the river Ile, 3! miles east from Hatch station and Major William Barrett, of Mordon. North Curry, .on the Chard branch and 6 south-west from Langport are the principal landowners. The soil is g'ravelly, and station on theo Yeovil branch of the Great Western rail- the subsoil is blue lias stone. The chief crops are wheat, way, and 5 north from Ilminster. in the Bridgwater beans and oats. The area is 1,191 acres; rateable value. division of the county, hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, £1,614; the population in 1901 was 264 in the civil and liminster petty sessional division, Langport union and 332 in the ecclesiastical parish in 1891. county court district, rural deanery of Jlminster, arch- STEWLEY is a hamlet and tithing belonging to this deaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. parish, but is now incorporated with Ashill. The church of St. Mary isa building' of stone, chiefly Sextoness, Mrs. Phrebe Elizabeth Bostock. in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of !five bays, aisle, south porch and an embattled western Post Office.-"Miss Anna Patten, sub-postmistress. Let- tower, of Perpendicular date, containing c:; beUs: the font ters arrive through Taunton at 6·45 a.m.; dispatched is Norman: the tower was restored in 1875 at a cost of at 6.25 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not '£2,000: the church affords 180 sittings. The register paid. The nearest money order &; telegraph office is at dates from the year 1561. The living is a vicarage, net Hambridge, 4 miles distant yearly value £210, with residence, and including 3 acres A School Board of 5 members was formed November 14• .of glebe, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol, 18'74; W. Winter Goode, North Curry, clerk to the and held since 1894 by the Rev. James Henry Taylor, board; Samuel Tapp, North Curry, attendance officer ()f St. Augustine's 'College, Canterbury. Here is a Bap- Board School (mixed), erected in 187.1' .& enlarged in tist chapel. The charities amount to £5 4s. yearly. 1901, for 65 children; average attendance, 53; :Mrs. H.R.H. the Duke of Oornwall and York KG. who is lord Clara Martindale. mistress Tapp Mrs Dare Sarah (Mrs.), frmr.Two Bridges Perren John, farmer,Higher Woodland Taylor Rev. James Henry, Vicarage Hodge Frank, dairyman, Broadfields Tapp & Son. agricultural ma- Hooper Robert, thatcher chinists, implement agents,builder8 COMMERCIAL. Humphry Edward, farmer, WoodlandR &, general contractors; agents to ~\dam-s Wi'1liam, dairyman, Woodlands Humphry John, farmer, Manor farm the Phcenix Fire office; & at Isle "Barrington Edwd.farmer,Northalls fm Patten Anna (Miss), -shopkpr.Post off Brewers "Bicknell Benjamin, farmer Patten Sarah Ann (Mrs.), farmer ISLE BREWERS is a village and parish on the east station on the Yeovil branch of the Great Western rail­ bank of the river ne, 5 miles north-east fro-m Hatch way, 5 north from Ilminster and la east-by-south from staticm. :on the Ohard branch and 6 south from Langport Taunton, in the Bridgwater division of the county, hun-