SOMERSETSHIRE. [KELLY S Wall Row
7 276 BIGBBRIDGE. SOMERSETSHIRE. [KELLY S Wall Row. • Gatcombe Miss Durston Charles, timber merchant Hunt Lancelot, farmer Baker Charles, beer retailer Heal John, farmer, Yew Tree farm Salvidge Frank, farmer Bartlett William Henry, insurance agt Heal Joseph, farmer, Ash house Smith Tom, insurance agent Bulpin Eliza (Miss), dress maker Hodge Beatrice (Miss), dress maker HILLFARRANCE is a small village on the river Tone, possessed of the manorial rights over the same. The prin- 3t miles north-east from Wellington station on the main cipal landowners are William Ayshford Sanford esq. of line of the Great Western railway, and 4! west from Nynehead Court; Lord Ashburton,and Wyndham Slade esq. Taunton, in the Western division of the county, hundred of of Montys, Taunton, and 70 St. George's square, London Taunton Dean, Taunton petty sessional division, Wellington s w. The soil is generally a strong clay ; subsoil, marl; and union and county court district, rural deanery of Welling- produces excellent crops of wheat, beans, ba.rley, mangolds ton, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. and swedes. The acreage of the united parishes of Oake By Local Government Board Order x6,6o3, which came into and Hillfarrance (united for Union purposes under the name operation March 24, I884, the parish was for civil purposes of Oake) is I,69o; rateable value, £4,505; the population amalgamated with Nynehead, Milverton and Oake. The in I89I was 396. church of the Holy Cross is a small building of stone, in the Sexton, Daniel Cattle. Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south Letters through Taunton by foot messenger arrive at 9 a.
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