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DIRECTORY.) SOMERSET. STOGUMBER. 425 Letters by foot post through Wellington, arrive at 9 Wall Letter Box, Appley, cleared at 4·45 p.m. week daya a.m. Ashbrittle is the nearest money order &; Green only ham & Ashbrittle are the nearest telegraph offices. This place is included in the Ashbrittle & Stawley United Wall Letter Box, cleared at 3·35 p.m. on week days School district; William Sweet, correspondent only Post & Telegraph Office, Greenham.-Miss May, sub Public Elementary School, Appley (mixed), erected in postmistress. Letters arrive from Wellington at 7 ·45 IS75, for 100 children; average attendance, 56 ~ a. m. & 6.55 p.m. & dispatched at 5· Io p.m. ; no Samuel Hailes, master delivery on sundays. Ashbrittle is the nearest money Police Station, Greenham, William Tamlyn, constable order office STAWLEY. Cattel Henry, farmer, Woodbams Warren Henry, carpenter & shopkeepr Elwort.by Robert, farmer, Hill fa,.,rmrn Wood Jas. dairyman, Grea.t Brimloey Sweet Mrs. Appley !"oxford Jn. farmer & miller (water) Sweet Thomas, Bennett's house Gamlin Wm. carpenter, Tracebridge GREENHAM. Sweet William J.P. Stawley Wood .James Francis, farmer, Appley court Bunt John Thomas, farm bailiff to Pearce Frank, Globe P.H. Appley Major G.Chapman, Bishop's :Barton COMMERCIAL. Stevens & Son, farmers, Burrow farm Hill Mark, farmer, Barton Bryant & Manning Ltd. slate quarry Sweet ArtJhur, farmer, Winkleigh May Frederick, blacksmith • owners, Tracebridge Vickery Fdk. farm-er, L1ttle :Brimley Tarr George, tobacconist STOCXLAND BRISTOL is a parish and village, on with stone dressings in the Early English style, consisting the west bank of the river Parret and bounded by the of nave, south porch, vestry and a turret containing one Bristol channel, 7 miles north-west from Bridgwater sta- hell: an oak desk, intended for use on the communion tions on the Somerset and Dorset and Great Western rail- table, was carved and presented by the late Rev. Charles ways, in the Bridgwater division of the county, western George Anderson, sometime rector of Otterhampton, and division of Canningoton hundred, Bridgwater petty ses- in 1900 a reredos of pine wood was erected, and adorned sional division, union and county court district, rural with two pictures of scenes from the life of St. Andrew. deanery of Quantoxhead, archdeaconry of Taunton and painted and presented by Miss R. Housman: there are diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary 75 sittings. Henry Thomas Daniel esq. J.P. who is lord of Magdalene is a building of stone in the Early English the manor, and Lord St. Audries P.C. are the principal stvle, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north landowners. The soil is clay, and the subsoil blue lias aisle, south porch and a western tower containing 5 stone. The chief crops are wheat, beans and barley,. bells, and clock chiming the quarters, presented in 1905 and chiefly pasture land. The acreage is S27; assess by the patron: the east and west wind{)WS are stained able value, £S4o; the population in 19II was 99 civil~ and there are several incised stone slabs with the arms and uS ecclesiastical (which comprises parts of Stock and names of members of the Everard family: the com- land Bristol, Fiddington and Otterhampton civit munion plate includes a chalice of the 16th century and parishes). other pieces dated 1714: in r865 the church was rebuilt By Local Government Board Order rS,IOI, March 25,. at th S"le cost of the late Thomas Daniel esq. of rS86, the hamlet of Steart was transferred from Stock Stoodleigh, Devon: there are sittings for I So persons. land Bristol oo Otterhampton, and part of Knaplock Farm The regi!.lter, which is still in perfect condition, dates from Cannington to Stockland Bristol, for civil purposes. from the year 153S. The living il'l a vicarage, net yearly value £2oo, including 22 acres of glebe, with residence, Letters received through Bridgwat.er, via Cannington, in the gift of Henry Thomas Daniel esq. J .P. and held about S a.m. ·& 6.10 p.m. Wall Letter Box, cleared at since 1909 by the Rev. Daniel Kent Ambrose M.A. of S a.m. & 6.25 p.m. week days only. The nearest. Downing College, Cambridge. The vicarage house was money order & telegraph office is at Cannington, 3 miles built in 1884. Thomas Daniel esq. a former lord of the distant manor, added the rectorial tithes, yearly value £6o. Public Elementary School (mixed), a picturesque build The mission church of St. Andrew, at Steart, built in ing erected in IB79 at the sole cost of the Rev. Henry 1882 at the sole cost of the Rev. Henry Arthur Daniel Arthur Daniel M.A. late vicar, for Bo children; aver M.A. vicar here rS57-S3, for the benefit of the fishermPn age attendance, 32 ; Miss Caroline Phillips, mistress and other residents in the hamlet, is an edifice of brick (For Postal purposes the affix "Bris-j Arundell of Wardour Lord of, Knap- DuckhamGhas. Gilbert,frmr.Manor fm tol " had bPttE'Ir be omitted, " Stock- lock house Lockyer Tom, gardener to Henry land, Bridgwater," being sufficient.) Daniel Henry Thomas J.P. Manor ho Thomas Daniel esq. J.P Pain Fredk. & Son,farmrs.. & bntchrs PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL, Porter Charles, gamekeeper to Henry Ambrose Rev. Daniel Kent M. A. [Dibble Thomas Sellick, .carpenter Thomas Daniel esq. J .P (vicar), Vicarage Duckham Charles, farmer, Lower ho Say er Brothers, farmers STOCXLINCH is a parish formed by Local Govern- ' of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave .. ment Board Order I6,421, March 25th, 1884, amalgamat- vestry and south porch, and a turret eontaining 3 ing Stocklinch Ottersay with Stocklinch St. Magdalen; bells: there are sittings for 79 persons. The register it is 3~ miles north-E'ast from Ilminster station on the dates from the year 1:56o. There are two charities thE" Chard branch of the Great Western railway, 7 west-8outh- Alien charity of £4 for blankets and £r for bread, and west from Martock and 7 north-east from Chard, in the the Stephens charity of £5 for tea and meat. Mrs. Southern division of the county, hundred of Abdick and Alien is lady of the manor. The soil is clay; subsoil,. Bulstone, Ilminster petty sessional division, Chard union lias stone. The chief crops are wheat, beans and and county court district, rural deanery of Ilminster, barley. The area is SIB acres; rateable value, £1,.177;. archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. population in 19n, I39· The church of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a building of Parish Clerk Charles Hext. stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, ' nave, transept, south porch and a tower containing 3 Post & Express Delivery Office. Mrs. Sarah Lentorr,. bE-lls: there are sittings for n 4 persons. The register sub-postmistress. Letters through Ilminster arrive at dates from the year I574· The living is a rectory, an- 7·I5 a.m. & s.20 p.m.; dispatched at 10.25 a.m. & nexed to that of Stocklinoh St. Magdalen, joint net 7.40 p.m.; sundays, arrive at 7·I5 a.m.; dispatched at ye-arly value £190, including 32 acres of glebe, with resi- 9 a.m. Ilminster, 2l miles distant, is the nearest deuce, in the gift of Mrs . .Allen, and held since IgoS by money order & telegraph office the Rev. Albert Hill Mawson M.A. of Corpus Christi Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1S66, for College, Cambridge, who is also rector of Stocklinch St. 55 children; average attendance, 2I; Mrs. Ellen Mary Magdalen, the church of which is a small building Roberts, mistress STOCKLINCH ST. MAGDALEN. STOCKLINCH OTTERSAY. COMMERCIAL. Brookman Samuel, thatchl'r Alien Mrs. Manor house I Faullmer Samuel, farmer Dinham Simeon, road contractor Bancroft Capt.PeterHenson,'l'he Grovel Gummer Mark, farmer Radford William, coal agent Mawson Rev. Albert Hill M.A. (rec- Hext Thomas, hay & straw dealer Stephens Thomas, poultry farmer tor), Rectory Rowe Albert Tom, farmer Wall Levi, farmer, Ilford bridges Stephens Miss, Stocklinch house Welch Samuel, farmer Woodland John, road contractor STOGUMBEB. is a parish and village, with a station, by rail from London, in the Western division of the. 1 mile east, un the West Somerset branch of the Great county, hundred of Williton and Freemanors, Williton WE>stern railway, and is 5 miles south-by-east from petty sessional division, union and CO'Unty court district. Watchet, 7 north-by-east from Wiveliscombe and 154! and in Dunster rural deanery, Taunton archdeaconry, .