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222 CRICKET ST. TBOM!~. SOMERSETSHIRE. [ KELLY's John's College, Cambridge, who TeSides at Winsham. From The farms chiefly consist of pasture lands. The area is Whitedown is a ma,onificent prospect, on the south being 707 acres; rateable value, [,I,OI3; the population in. x8gx diecernible the English Channel and the Bristol Channel on was go. the north, with the intermediate country epread out like a By Local Government Board Order xg,582, March 25, map. A fail' is held at Whitedown e\'ery Whit Monday 1886, Marshwood and Marshwood Farm were transferred and Tuesday for cattl~ and horses. Cricket St. Thomas, to Winsham. formerly the seat of General Viscount Bridport, is a Parish Clerk, Henry Smith. mansion of Ham Hill stone, beautifully seated in a well- Letters through Chard, arrive at 7 a.m. The nearest woo:led park of about Boo acres, 14 acres of which are money order office is at Winsham & telegraph office at pleasure grounds and gardens; the house is now (1897) Chard, 3! miles distant · unoccupied. is lord of the manor and sole land- WALL LETTER Box cleared at 5.40 p.m owner. The soil is stony; subsoil, chalk and sandstone. The children of this place at1end the school at Winsham Cole Emannel, farmer, Manor farm I Hodder William, estate carpenter, Put- I Lyon Septimus, head gardener to the Dommett Bernard, farmer, Parsonage j hill farm _ j estate Miller James, dairyman is a parish and village on the river the interest of which is for fuel and clothing ; George's· Sheppy, a tributary of the Brue, 2 miles west lrom charity of £5 a year, payable from a field at North station on the London and South Western Wootton, i'! for females not receiving parochial help. The railway and 3 south-east from Wells station on the London Wesleyan chapel, erected in 18go, will seat about 100 per­ and South Western and Great Western railways, in the sons. The Bapt-ist chapel here, a building of the I5th Eastern division of the county, hundred of Whitestone, century, was formerly the residence or Manor House of county court district of Wells, petty sessional division the Fortescue family: it has two Perpendicular windows and union of Shepton Mallet, rural deanery of Shepton on each side, and the end wall exhibits traces of the buttery Mallet, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and hatch: between the windows is a good corbel shaft with the Wells; it was formerly a place of importance and had a arms of I<'ortescue: attached to the building is a burial market granted by a charter of Edward I., afterwards ground, covering over eight perches of land. In the village confirmed by Edward IlL and Henry IV. ; this privilege, is another ancient building, also of the 15th century, ceiled falling into disuse for many years, was ultimately lost; it in stone, and having a good square bay window in the upper was, however, renewed at the solicitation of Hugh Fortescne storey ; the ceiling, which is original, is ornamented w1th esq. lord of the manor in 1728, but since then hag been scrolls along a moulded cornice; the fireplaces and wooden discontinued. A charter for a fair was also granted by window frames are also original, and there is a good Edward I. which has now likewise fallen into disuse. The octagonal chimney. Near one angle of the house stands church of St. Mary is an elegant edifice of Mendip lias, an ancient cross of stone 14 feet in height, consisting of with dressings of stone, in the Early English a shaft with finial rising from an octagonal base of three style, and consists of chancel, clerestoried na\'e of four steps. Arthur Fownes Somerdlle esq. of Dinder House, bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower who is lord of the manor, the trustees of the late Rev. with crocketed pinnacles and spire and containing a clock Edward Batchelor, John Frederick Hall esq. of Sharcombe, and 6 bells: the nave has a singularly fine coved pointed and William Luff esq. are the chief landowners. 'fhe Shep­ roof, and on the north wall of the chancel, within panels, ton Mallet Urban District Council sewage farm is situated are shields bearing the arms of Fortescue and other fami- in this parish. The soil is loamy, and t.he subsoil is lime­ lies: there are several monuments, and in the south aisle stone. The land is chiefly in pasture. The area is 1,852 are mural brasses to James Bisse, ob. Nov. xB, x6o6, and acres; rateable value, [,3,966; the population in xBgr was to William Bisse, ob. June IS, 1625, with effigies of both, 67o in the civil and s86 in the ecclesiastical parish. and their wives and children kneeling at desks> in the nave By Local Government Board Order I6,337, March 24, is a chandelier, presented in 1728 by Hugh ForLescue esq. : 1884, Ham tithing was transferred from Croscombe to Pilton. in 1892 three stained windows were erected in the chancel 1\IAESBURY, or MAsBURY RING, CAMP or CASTLE, the in memory of John Nalder, of Shepton Mallet: the stained remains of an ancient Belgo-British fortification, and an east window was presented by the parishioners and others, object of much interest, is partly in this parish ; it incloses and there are windows given by Mrs. Nalder, as memorials an area of about six. acres, and is surrounded by a deep of her husband and daughter : the church was enlarged in fosse and vallum. I83I and new roofed, and the tower and spire tepaired in THRUPE is a small hamlet I mile south. x88g-g2, at a cost of [,1,6oo: there are sittings for 520 persons. The register dates from the year I472. The Sexton, Henry Baker. living is a rectory, net yearly value [,150, including 15 PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Wylie's trustees, Mrs. Hester Ann Jones, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive and held since 1877 by the Rev. Joseph Allott, of St. Bees. from Wells at 7 a.m. & 5 p.m.; dispatched at n.s a.m. The charities are as follows :-Speed's charity, supporting & 5.40 p.m. Shepton Mallet is the nearest telegraph two widow!', or single women, of not less than 50 years of office, 2 miles distant age; Jacob Ricketts esq. late of Clifton, left the interest of National School, erected in 1872, partly from a snm of [,222 7s. 1od. to be distributed amongst the poor of the £450 left by Mr. 'fownsend for that purpose, who also parish; Mr. Samuel Hares gave £n2 I3s. Iod., one moiety endowed it with a further sum of [,x,ooo, now yielding of the interest to be divided amongst eight persons attend- £39 yearly; the Rev. John East M. A. rector from 1828, ing the parish church, the other moiety to be expended in left for the benefit of the school £200 & Miss Esther beautifying the church; Ann Parsons gave ten shillings Hartlebury, sister of Rev. J. East, left £48 ss. ; it will yearly to be distributed amongst ten single women, payable hold 6o boys, 6o gids & 40 infants; average attendance, out of a field, called "Burleigh Field," part of Dungeon 29 boys, 41 girls & 39 infants; Herbert Nelson Hesmond· Farm; there is also Townsend's charity of £g66 Bs. 1od. halgh, master; Miss B. Radnedge, infants' mistress Allott Rev. Joseph, Rectory Dupe George, boot maker Orledge Robert, miller( water & steam) Booth Joseph, Church street Gane George, grazier & cattle dealer Penny Henry, fanner, Dungeon farm • Gould George Edwin, Parsonage house Gould Elizabeth i_Miss), shopkeeper Perry Robert, farmer, Parsonage ' James Sidney Gould Geo.Edwin, miller (water), corn !'helps William, sanitary inspector to Treasure Henry, Ashley house dealer, assist. overseer & rate collectr the rural district council, Church st Woodward Mrs Griffin Frank, blacksmith Pike Thomas, farmer, Ham COMMERCIAl.. Hall James, Rose & Crown P.H Radnedge Luke, carpenter Baker Clement, monumental mason JacohsHerbrt.farmr.ThrupeHigherfrm Say James, farmer Baker George Richard, farmer, Thrupe Jacobs William, Greyhound P.H Say Moses, farmer Marsh farm James John, farmer, Churchill farm Say Richard Norris, beer retailer Baker Henry, road contractor & sexton Jones Hester Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Say Robert, timber dealer Blinman William, stone mason Post office Sewage Farm (SidneyJas.White,mngr) Commercial School, Middle Class (prin- Locke William, George inn Somers George, haulier, Church street cipal, Joseph Booth), Church street Oatley Frederick, coal dealer Virtue George, baker & corn dealer Corp Henry, farmer, Middle fal'm,Ham Oatley John, coal dealer Watts John, baker Corp Thomas Edward, farmer, Thrupe Orledge Albert, miller (water & steam) Webber Frederick, wheelwright Duddan George, shopkeeper Orledge John, miller {water & steam) Woodward Rester (Miss), shopkeeper CROWCOMBE is a parish and village on the road Western division of the county, hundred of Williton and from Taunton to Minehead and on the west of the Quantock Freemanors, Williton petty sessional division, union and Hills, with a station called Crowcombe Heathfield, It miles county court district, rural deanery of Quantoxhead, arch­ south on the West branch of the Great Western deaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The railway and is n north-west from Taunton, 8 north-east church of the Holy Cross is an ancient edifice of stone in f.forn Wh·eliscombe and 172 by rail from .London, in the the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of four