3.90 SOMERTON. SOMERSET. [KELLY'S

Litchfield William Ward, Red Lion family &, commercial Stuckey's Banking 00. Limited (branch) (John G.WlJitEl', hotel; post & job master & carriage proprietor. Tele­ manager), Broad street; draw on Robarts, Lubbock &; grams, "Litchfield, Somerton, Somerset" 00. London EC • Lock James, boot maker, West street Sturdee Edmund, farm bailiff to F. W. P. Pinney esq. Locke Fred J ames, blacksmith, West street Midney farm Main Elizabeth (Mrs.), baker, Sutton road Taylor George Robin, plumber, New street Main Jehu, pig dealer, Sutton road Taylor 'Frederick, farmer, Pester's lane Martyn James, draper, Market place Taylor John Small, accountant, clerk to the ,school board,. Miles Charles, chemist & grocer, Market place assistant clerk to the magistrates '& to the commis­ Mundy Geo. boot ma. &; school attendance officer, West st 'sioners of taxes '& secretary to Gas Co, North ·street Mundy Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper, West street Temperance Ooffee House (Wm. Tuttiett, propr.), New st. Nutt George, farmer, 'Park (letters received thr()u2'h Thyer Mary Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper, West End Pitney, Langport R.S.G) Townsend Edwin, boot maker, West street Nutt Jas. mineral water manufacturer &; currier, New !t Townsend William, chimney ,sweeper, West street Ord, Battiscombe &; Elwes, brewers, Somerton brewery Volunteer Battalion (3rd), Prince Albert',1il (Somersetshire Ostler Eleanor (Mrs.), beer retailer, West end Light Infantry (G Co. Second-Lieut. R. W. Pinney, Parker Sidney, farmer, Lower Somerton commanding; WaIter Bowering, sergeant drill instrctr) Parsons Richard, shoe maker, West end Wagland Mark, mason, West street Paul Charles House, stone merchant~ Sutton road WaIter Gaius 'Penny, tailor & outfitter, Broad street Peddle George, painter &; plasterer, Sutton road Warren Thomas Henry, instructor in technical education Peddle J ames, family butcher &; grazier, West street under the Somerset Oounty Educati()nal Committee.. Peddle William, house decorator, West street . West end Pike Joseph John, shopkeeper, West street Watts Albert Henry, plumber & glazier, New ,street Pittard George, farmer, Sutton road Watts Eugene Augustine, general outfitter, West street Pittard Reuben, insurance agent, West street Watts James, carpenter ,& builder, New street Puddy Edmund Hill, baker, West ,street Webber Charles Daniel, commercial traveller, North !It. RaIls Samh J. {Mrs.) 1& Louisa (Miss), upholstres8Qll, Weech Henry, farmer, Langport road Acre lane Welsh & Clark, linen collar manufacturers, Broad street. Roles George, land steward to F.W.P.Pinney esq.West'end stree~ White In. G. mgr. to Stuckey's Banking 00. Lim.Bank hOo Salmon William Fredk. New Commercial inn, New White Joseph, supt. of county police, Market place Scriven Oharles, farmer, Sutton road. Williams William & Son, ironmongers, West street Siblev William, town crier, West End • Williams Oharles Milward, manager of the Wilts & Dor- Small Henry, farmer, St. Cleer's Smith James, market gardener, St. Oleer's set Bank~ Market place Somerton Cottagers' Horticultural Society (J. W. Hewitt Williams Frederick Jesse, saddler, Market place & T. O. Head, hon. secs) Williams Jesse GiIlett, printer ,& stationer, Post office,. Somerton Gas 00. Limited (John Small Taylor, ,sec) New ,street Somerton & Street (594th) Starr-Bowkett Building So­ Wilts & Dorset Banking 00. Limited (branch) (C. M. ciety (Henry Atkinson, sec) WilIia.ms, manager), Market place; draw on London &:. Stacey WiIliam, carpenter Westminster Bank Limited, London E C' Stride William, gamekeeper to F. W. P. Pinney esq. Woolf Harry, registrar of births, deaths &; marriages,. Midney Somerton sub-di£trict ,& relieving officer, 2nd district &. Strong William Arthur, master of Grammar school, Kirk­ school attendance officer, Langport union ham house SPARKFORD is a parish and village, with a ,station ciety's mnseum, Taunton. A repository sale is held at, on the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth branch of the the Sparkford inn every alternate Monday. Sparkford Great Western railway, and is 5 miles south-west from Hall, which ,stands in park-like grounds with an entrance­ Oastle Outy, 7 west from Wincanton, 7 north from Yeovil dl'ive, on the high road from Sparkford to Ilchester, is and 120 from London, in the Eastern division of the county, the property of Henry EdwardBennett esq. J.P. who is Catsash hundred, Wincanton petty sessional division, lord of the manor and chief l,ndowner, and now occupied union and county court district, rural deanery of Cary, by WiIliam D. O. Harman 811q. The soil is sandy clay, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of 'Bath and Wells. and the ,subsoil is blue. clay and marl. The land is prin­ The church of St. Mary Magdalene is a building of stone cipally in pa.sture; this is also a fine dairy country. The­ in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave,south acreage is 998; asseBsable value, £2,325; the population: • • transept and a fine embattled western tower, with pin­ lU 1901 was 217. nacles, containing 3 bells, one of which is very ancient Parish Clerk, James Talbot, and bears the following inscription:-" Sancta Oatarina Post, T. O. & M. O. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery, ora pro nobis": the church was rebuilt, with the ex­ Parcel Post & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Miss Annie­ ception of the tower, in 1824, and has sittings for 130 Ellen Alliston, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from persons. The register dates from the year 1729. The Bath at 7 a.m. & 1.15 p.m.; diBpatched at 2.10 p.m, living is a rectory, net yearly value £220, with 40 acres & 7 p.m. week days only of glebe. and residence, in the gift of H. E. Bennett esq. and held since 1899 by the Rev. Trevor Griffiths M.A. of National School (mixed), erected in 1849 & enlarged in Worcester College, Oxford. Roman remains have been 1892, for 80 children; average attendance, 53; Edwd. found here, as well as bronze celts, some of which have Lang, master; Mrs. Lang, mistress been presented to the Somersetshire Archreological So- Railway Station, William Bessent, station master • Griffiths Rev. Trevor M. A. Rectory Bessent William, station mas~r J[~mes WilIiam, corn merchant Barman WiIliam D. O. Sparkford hall Clements Thos. refreshment rooms Kerton Albert Wm. farmer, Spark­ Dampier Robert, blacksmith ford farm I" I tilOM)M:ERCIAL. Hodges John, farmer Kynaston Oharles, shopkeeper &; Alliston SeHna (Mrs.), farmer Isaac George Son, agenbs to thr> Saunders Henry• T. B. frmr.Woodsid8" Anstey In. C. miller (water) &; farmr Great Western Railway 00. &; coal Somel'set Trading Oompany Limited~ Barrett Sidney, shoe 'maker merchants importers of slates & foreign timber­ Brain Silas Henry, farmer.Brooklands Isaaos Elizh. (Mrs.) & Oo.coa] dealer. Talbot James, carpenter ,Brookliss WilIiam, Sparkford inn Ivey J ames, carpenter • SPAXTON is a parish and village, under the Quantoek ' window was placed in the south chancel aisle, in com- hills, 6 miles west from Bridgwater station on the Bristol I memoration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her late Majesty and Exeter section of the Great Western railway, in the Queen Victoria: there are sittings for 400 persons. The­ Bridgwater division of the county, western division of register dates from the year 1558. The living is a rec­ Oannington hundred, Bridgwater petty sessional division, tory, net yearly value £380, with 36 acres of glebe, anli union and county court district, rural deanery of Bridg- residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1894 by water, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and the Rev. Perry Fairfax Nursey M.A. of Wadham College, Wells. The church of St. Margaret is a building of stone, Oxford. There is an iron chapel of ease at Merridge in the Later English style, consisting of chancel, nave, and also Oongregational and Wesleyan chapels. A religious south aisle and an embattled western tower, with pin- community was established in 1845 at Four Forks. Cooke's nacles, containing a clock and 5 bells: there is an altar charity consists of six almshouses for poor men or women. tomb to a knight and his lady; a memorial window to who each receive 2S. weekly, with coals, light and cloth­ the Rev. James Galloway, late rector, erected in 1874 by ing. The pumping station and tanks of the Brid~water his family, and another erected in 1898 to the late George water works are at Ashford, near Cannington, in this White esq. barrister-at-Iaw, of London: in 1897 a stained parish. The Poor's Land charity consists of the rents of