Dl.RECTORY.] SOMERSb.T. WlNCANfON. 529 Registrars of Marriages: Frederick Waiter Huggins, DISTRICT EDUCATION SUB-COMMITTEE. Williton; deputy, Benjamin F. Casson, Williton; W. Meetings held at the Board room, Williton Union Work H. A. Thorne, :Minehead; deputy, F. R. Scott, Mine house, at I2.30 p.m. monthly. head Clerk & Attendance Officer, James Herbert Fitt, Bick noller, Taunton PUBLIC OFFICERS. Public Elementary School (mixed), erected, with mas Assessor & Collector of Taxes, Oscar Baker ter's house, in I872, at a cost of ,£"I,4oo, for 207 Certifying Factory Surgeon, Charles Rowe Killick M.B. children; a.verage attendance, I50; Treth&n Jose Lond Gard, master The school is controlled by six managers; Rev. C. H. Clerk to the Commissioners of Taxes i& to Williton, Heale, Vicarage, Williton, correspondent Minehead & Watchet Pension Sub-Committee, Frank Risdon NEWSPAPER. West Somerset Free Press, published weekly, on fri. for Veterinary Inspector under the " Diseases of Animals sat. by Cox, Sons & Co. Limited. See advertise· Acts" for Williton Petty Sessional Division, Thomas ment Smith M.R.C.V.S RAILWAY STATION. Sidney J ames Yeandle, station master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Dore William Robert, New inn Mills William Harry, Egremont hotel Atkinson W. E. Tower hill Duddridge John, farmer Moorman Robert, farmer Baker Oscar, Magnolia house Eames Alfred, boot & shoe maker Moorman William,.. farmer Brownscomb Wm.The Poplars,Stream Ford Eli, motor engineer Norman Tom, farmer, Stream Dore Mrs. High street Fort Waiter, wheelwright Parr's ~ank Limited (branch) (Good- Gliddon Benjamin, Whitecroft Gallop & Sons, grocers barne Wilson J.P. manager) (open Gliddon Mrs. High street Gliddon J. & Sons, ironmongers IO to 3 daily; saturdays, 9.30 to Haddon Sidney, Catwell cottage Green Alfred, tailor 12.30) ; draw on head office, 4 Heale Rev. Charles Henry (vicar, & Haddon Jn.Harris (Mrs.),frmr.Stream Bartholomew lane, London E C chaplain Williton union), Vicarage Haddon Percy, farmer Parsons & Hann, grocers Heathcote Ylisses, Eastfield Hake Thos. assist. overseer,Post office Reading Room (T. L. Sparks,hon.sec) Hosegood An drew, Dove tons Hann Thomas, grocer, see Parsons & Rich Mary (Miss), laundry Howell Mrs Hann Risdon Frank, solicitor (firm, J oyce, Killick Charles Rowe M.B Holcombe Annie (Mrs.), laundry Risdon & Hosegood), & clerk to the Sparks Mrs Holcombe Bertram, tailor Williton Rural District Council, Tapp Philip Hole Herbert Henry, photographer clerk to the magistrates for tile Wilson Goodbarne J .P llole Sidney Edmund, wheelwright respective divisions of Williton & Wood James Hooper John, Wyndham Arms P.H Dunster & to the board of guardians Hosegood Andrew, architect (firm, & assessment committee of Williton COMMERCIAL. Andrew & Hosegood) union, clerk to Williton, Minehead Early closing day, Wed. I p.m. Hosegood Tom Henry, solicitor (firm, & Watchet Pension sub-committee Andrew & Hosegood, architects, land Joyce. Risdon & Hosegood), clerk to & clerk to the commissioners oi surveyors & land agents Ellsworth's Foundation & clerk to taxes Carhampton division; & at Baker Oscar, accountant, deputy Minehead & Williton (West) Isola- Watchet & Minehead supt. registrar & assessor & col- tion Hospital district committee Sellick Martha (Mrs.), laundry lector of taxes for Williton Huggins Frederick Waiter, collector to Seward Thomas J. & Son, tailors Bellamy William Thomas, jeweller the guardians, vaccination officer & Seward Annie (Mrs.), dress maker Bray Harnet (Miss), shopkeeper reSampford Brett, Long street Jones William Henry, baker Sto·ate Arthur Hy. farmer, Bridge fm Casson Benjamin F. saddler & harness Joyce, Risdon & Hosegood, solicitors Sully Fred, Railway commercial hotel maker, & deputy registrar of births, & insurance agents Ward Jane (Miss), shopkeeper deaths & marriages Joyce T!.omls, supt. registrar of Wil- Wedlake John, miller (water) Cas!!On M. S. (Miss), apartments liton district West Somerset Free Press (Cox, Sons Chibbett & Sons, cabinet makers Kerslake James & Son, blacksmiths & CA>. Limited, publishers; pub Chidgey Mary (Miss), dressmake1;, KNslake Emily (Mrs.), dressmaker lished friday for saturday). See Long strPet , Killick & Graham, physicians&surgns advertisement Churchill Waiter William, saddler &I Killick Charles Rowe M.B.Lond. sur- Wilson Goodbarne J.P. manager of harness maker geon, & certifying factory surgeon Parr's Bank Limited Colwell Joseph, hair dresser Williton district (firm, Killick & Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited Cox. Sons & Co. Lim. printers, book- Graham) (agency) (open daily IO to I2; mar- sellers, stationers, bookbinders & Kingsbury John, farmer, Wibble farm ket day IO to I); draw on London fancy repository; & .at Minehead. Langdon & Son, bakers County & WestminsLer Bank Ltd. See advertisement Langdon Robert, butcher London E C WILTON parish is now wholly given with the municipal (Taunton) and Bishops Hull Without, formed March 25, borough of Taunton, the portion formerly outside being I885. Sherford is a hamlet in the parish. added to the parishes of St. Mary Magdalene Without WINCANTON, anciently called "Wyndcaleton," from Mr. A. P. I. Cottrell, of Bristol: the town has been its position on the river Cale, is a town of very great anti efficiently drained, the sewage flowing into tanks half a quity, and the head of a petty sessional division and union, mile south, where it is· deodorized and utilized: the with a station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, ns! lighting of the town is now under the control of the miles, vi~ Temple Combe, from London by rail and Io8 by Parish Council. Stavordale, included in this parish for road, 5 sout~ from Bruton and I8 south-east from Wells, ecclesiastical purposes, gives the title of viscount to the in the Eastern division of the county, Norton Ferris hun Fox-Strangways family, Earls of Ilchester. The church ~red, rurnl deanery of Bruton. archdeaconry of Wells and of SS. Peter and Paul, almost entirely rebuilt, with the diocese of Bath and W ell.s. The great road from the West exception of the tower, at a cost of £6,ooo, from plans of England, through Salisbury to London, passes through by the late J. D. Sedding, architect, of London, and the town. which is called a borough, but has no chartered consecrated August IS, I889, is an edifice of stone in corporation. The town is governed by a Parish Council the Perpendicular style, with pierced parapets and of IS members, formed under the provisions of the pinnacles, and consists of chancel, nave, north and two " Local Government .Act, I894: " it is paved, and south aisles, chapel, vestries and an embattled western lighted with gas from works in Station road. The tower, with pinnacles, dating from the reign of Edward town is supplied with water from springs rising at Il. and containing 6 bells: the church is seated with Penselwood. 3 miles north-east, whence it is conveyed oak, and has 700 sittings, of which two-thirds are free. thronqh pipes laid down at a. cost of £s,ooo, by the The register dates from the year I636. The living is late Rural Sanjtary Authority ; an extension of the a vicarage, net yearly value £330, including 42 acres of water supply was carried out in I909 from plans by glebe, in the gift of the Right Rev. H. W. Yeatman- SOMERSET S4