DIRECTORY, J SOMERSET. liEATHFIELD. 297 Jones .Akers, Rose cottage Denning Geo. Edwin (miller (water), J enning~ W illiam, Hatch hotel ; good Lloyd William Henry, Hatch court Higher mill accommodation for motorists & Nixon Mrs. Mynd house Dewdney Edwd. Lucius Day L.P.S . .A., cyclists; good hunters let on hire Owsley Vincent, Myrtle cottage L.S.S . .A., L.S . .A. physician & sur­ Marks Wm. Jas. shopkpr. & post off Pitt Mrs. Beauchamp lodge geon, Beauchamp cottage Mear Charles, butcher, Capland Taylor Miss, Bay cottage Durman Frederick, insurance agent Mills William, carpenter, sexton & Wayne Hennan, Oakfield Durman Waiter, gardener to William parish clerk Wilson Rev. Charles Thomas M.A., Henry Lloyd esq Rails Fredk.Jn. frmr.Hatch Green fm F.R.G.S. (rector), Rectory Grigg Thomas, farmer, Perris farm Small G. & Sons, coal merchants~ COl\IMERCIAL. Grigg Walt.Edmond, frmr.Sparks fru Railway station; & at Taunton Alien John & Son, millers (water), Haycroft Henry, farmer,Wyatts farm Smallridge Albert Hoskins, grocer Lower mill Dodges Charles, wheelwright Stevens Charles, blacksmith Rruford William H. head gardener to Hunter Thomas Thompson, fa,.,rmmer, & Studley Albert, farmer, Fowlers farm the Hon. H. P. Gore-Langton J.P steward to the Hon. H. P. Gore­ Taylor Ernest, farmer, Windsor farm Channing Goorge, builder Langton J.P. Wilcox farm Tytherleigh Hy. farmer, Wilkins frm Cook Ellen (Miss), Queen's nurse Yeo Frank, farmer, Palmar's green Cozens William, farmer, Capland frm WEST HATCH is a parish and village, on the main since 1910 by the Rev. J oseph Byrchmore, of Queen's road from Taunton to Ilminster, I! miles west from Hatch College, Birmingham. Here is a Wesleyan chapel and Beauchamp station on the Chard branch of the Great a Mission room. The charities are of £4 19s. yearly Western railway and about 5! south-east from. Taunton, value. There are several quarries, from which blue in the Bridgwater division of the county, hundred of North lias stone is obtained, some of which is converted Curry, Taunton petty sessional division, union and county into lime. The Ecclesiastical Commissoners are lords court district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Taunton of the manor and lay rectors. The Hon. H. P. Gore­ and diocese of Bath and Wells. Part of Sedgemoor Langton J.P. of Hatch Park, and the representatives belongs to this parish. The church, supposed to have of Charles William Dare esq. are the principal land­ been dedicated in honour of St. Andrew, is a building of owners. In the lower part of this parish the soil is stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, a fine rich red loam, while the upper part is of a nave of four bays, north aisle, organ chamber, south clayey nature. The chief crops are wheat &c. ; beans porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, and teazels are grown here. The area is 1,619 acres; containing 5 bells: the church, including the tower, was assessable value, £1,400; population in 19II, 339· rebuilt in 1861, and a north aisle added, from designs Sexton, Charles Sparks. by Mr. E. Ferrey, then diocesan architect: there is a memoriaJ window in the chancel to W. H. P. Gore-Lang­ Letters through Taunton ari>ive at 7.20 a.m. & 6.30 ton esq. who died in 1873: the chancel was restored p.m. Hatch Beauchamp is the nearest money order in 1907: there are sittings for 235 persons. The regis­ & telegraph office, r! miles distant ter dates from the year 16o6. The living, originally :1 Wall Letter Boxes. Near Church, cleared at 9 a.m. & chapelry, anntJxed with that of Stoke St. Gregory to the 6.30 p.m. week days only; Slough Green, cleared at vicarage of North Curry and under the peculiar juris­ 8.5 a.m. & 6.15 p.m. week days only c!; Meare Green. diction of the Dean and Chapter of Wells, was separated cleared at 9.15 a.m. & 6.45 p.m. week days only and declared a vicarage July 10, 1866; net yearly valuP Public Elementary School (mixed), built in r858, for Bo £228, including 5 acres of glebe, with residence, in children; averagtJ attendance, 38 ; Charles A. Puddy. the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Wells, and heir master; Mrs. Puddy, assistant mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Churchill Samuel, farmer,Home farm Matravers Ernest, farmer, Willments Byrchmore Rev. Jsph.(vicar),Vicarag~ David Edward, farmer, Park farm farm Jeffery Mrs England Frederick, farmer Mead John, shoe maker Keats Henry England Samuel, farmer Miller Henry Jn. farmer, Yarde farm Keats John Forward Francis Lewis, Farmers' Musgrove William Waiter, farmer Pennin!!"ton Ernest William,Hill brow Arms P.H Percy Samuel, farmer, Strangways Whittaker William, Gothic cottage Jeffery William Edward, farmer, Priddle Henry Jas. frmr.Meare Green Meare Court farm Quick William, farmer, Griffin farm COMMERCIAL. Jennings Samuel, farmer & assistant Saunders Charles, farmer Aplin .Albert, farmer, Philpot farm overseer, Meare Green Small Gilbert, farmer Bale Edward, shopkeeper Jennings William, farmer, Bath farm Sparks William, shopkeeper Brunt Thomas, farmer, Meare Green Lang Charles, farmer, Tidley Tucker Henry, farmer, Riplands farm Churchill John, farmer, Boon's farm Winter Charles, farmer HA WKRID G E is a parish and village, on the top of [4oo, including 6o5 acres of glebe, with house, in t}}P a hill above a small river named Danes Brook, which gift of E. Newman esq. and held since 1881 by the Rev. divides this county from Devonshire, and flowing through Rowland Newman M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. most beautiful woodland scenery empties itself into the The charities amount to £2 12s. gd. yearly, which sum Barle, a mile and a haJf south-east from the church, at is distributed in clothing. The Earl of CarnarvoQn, who a bridge called 'Castle Bridge; it is 5 miles north-west is lord of the manor, and the J>ector are the landowners. from Dnlverton station on the Great Western railway The soil is of every variety, clay excepted; and the sub­ and 9 north-east from South Molton, in the Western soil, rock, iron and manganese. The crops are mostly division of the county, hundred of Williton, petty ses­ oats and turnips. The area is 3.382 acres of land and sional division and union of Dulverton, county court dis­ 13 of water; rateable value, £I,o28 ; population in trict of Tiverton, Wiveliscombe rural deanery, Taunton 19II, 81. archdeaconry and Bath and Wells diocese. A peculiar Sexton, John Lock. footbridge, called " Tarr Steps," formed of large fiat stones supposed to have been taken from the bed of the Post Office. Miss Hannah Lock, sub-postmistress. Let­ river, crosses the Barle on the north side of the parish. ters arrive by foot post from Dulverton at 8.10 a.m.; The church of St. Giles is an edifice of stone in the dispatched at 4·35 p.m. ; no delivery on sundays. Norman style, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch Dulverton is the nearest money order office, 5 miles and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells: the distant, & Withypool the nearest telegraph office, 3~ font, hewn out of a block of native stone, is of the same miles distant period: there are sittings for 150 persons. The register Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1878, to dates from the year 1653. The living is a rectory, with I hold 30 children; averagtJ attendance, 25; Miss the chapelry of Withypool annexed, joint net yearly valu.. Isabella Laurie, mistress Newman Rev. Rowland M.A. Rectory Bawden Thomas, farmer, Clogs Lock John, wheelwright COMMERCIAL. Burnell Alfd. frmr. E~tst Hollowcombe Westcott Martin, farmer, Shircombe Adams Jacob, blacksmith Clatworthy Chas. farmer, Parsonage Westcott Richard, farmer,Zeal & Row Baker Henry, farrier Clatworthy Fredk. Wm. farmer, Hill HEATHFIELD is a small village and parish on the deanery of Wellington, archdeaconry of Taunton and dio­ road from Taunton to Dulverton, 2! miles east from cPse of Bath and Wells. The church of St. John the Milverton station on the Somerset and Devon branch of Baptist is a building of stone, chiefly in the Early English the Great Westem milway, and 5 west-north-west from style, oonsisting of chancel, nave, south chapel, south Taunton, in the Western division of the county, hundred porch and a westem tower containing 5 bells: in 1870 the of Taunton Dean, Bishops Lydeard petty sessional divi­ nave, chapel and porch were restored and three new win­ sion, Taunton union and oounty court district, rural dows added ; most of the windows are of Late Decorated .