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French John, shopkeeper Palmer Samuel, farmer Tutton Clement, farmer Ham William, farmer Pullen Frederick, blacksmith & shopkpr Vowles Edward, farmer, Manor house Merry Charles, carpenter Tilley William, farmer, Manor farm Ll1CCOMBE (or LucKHAM) is a parish and village about money. Hole's charity, now (1897) of [12 6s. yearly, is for -a mile from the high road from to , 5 blankets for Doverhay only; Tamlyn's charity, now of miles south-west from Minehead station on the West £6 os. 8d. yearly, is for educational purposes in Doverhay. branch of the Great Western railway, 13 west Iron ore mines formerly worked in this parish by the from WtlHton and 2~ south-east from Porlock, in the Ln~combe Iron Ore Company have been abandoned. Western division of the county, hundred of , Cloutsham farm, delightfully situated on the hills in this petty sesswnal division, union and county court parish, abounds with red deer, and is usually the first meet

bays, south aisle, north porch and an embattled western LuccouBE1 I! miles west; and HoRNER, I mile north-west, 'tower containing a clock and 5 bells : the chancel is entirely are hamlets. The farm of East Harwood with three cottages, Early English, and the nave, tower and south aisle Perpen- situated south-east in civil parish of , is also dicular, with some remains of Decorated work in the south in the ecclesiastical parish of Luccombe. -aisle: ~h.e whole church was- reseated with oak pews in I896, Parish Clerk, Albert Daymond. and now affords sittings for I7o persons. The registers, Sexton, Samuel Burgess, jun. including a fra~ment containing records of civil marria~es in WALL LETTER Box.-Letters by foot post from Allerford the time 61 the Commonwealth, date from I652. The living (post town Taunton) at 9 a.m. ; dispatched at 4·45 p.m. is a rectory, net yearly value £32I, including 6o acres of week days only. The nearest money order office is at glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Right Hon. Sir T. • Allerford & telegraph office at Porlock, 2! miles distant "D. Aclan.d hart. and held since I89I by the Rev. Henry School (mixed), erected in I88I, for 40 children; average Dyke Aeland M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. There are attendance, 29; Miss Mary 1\'loore, mistress. Other -charities of about £I ss. yearly, for distribution in children attend the schools at Porlock & Allerford .Acland Rev. Henry Dyke M.A. Rectory Crick William, farmer, Holtball Knight George, farmer .Birmingham John H. Wychanger Ferris John, farmer Lang J ohn,stockman to the Right Hon. Hawkin.s J~hn, West Luccombe farm Floyd Richard, farmer, Burrowhayes Sir T. D. Acland P.c. Cloutsham Lawrence James P. Wychanger Floyd William, farmer, Lee Prescott Charles, farmer, Milhams Adams E

Frome division of the county, hundred, petty sessional leigh, net yearly value _£2I9 1 including 33 acres of glebe, in division, union, county court district and rural deanery of the gift of the Rev. William Arthur Duckworth, and held Frome, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and since 1894 by the Rev. John Gerald Marshall M.A.. of Corpus Wells. The church of All Saints, restored and enlarged in Christi college, Cambridge. Oborn's charity of £3 ws. I862, is an ancient building of stone, believed to have been yearly is for bread. The Rev. William Arthur Duckworth erected in the reign of King Stephen (n35-54,), though M.A. of Orchardleigh, Frome, i'l lord of the manor and portions of the edifice indicate signs of a much earlier principal landowner. The sOil is loam and mar!, and the foundation : the nave is Transitional : the transept, subsoil is marl. The land is chiefly in pasture for dairy formerly a chapel and still retaining a piscina, belongs to purposes. The area is 719 acres; rateable value, £944; the the period between the Early Euglish and Decorated styles, population in I89I was II9· :and the chancel represents the change from Decorated to Perpendicular : the church consists of chancel, nave, south Letters received, via Frome, at 8.30 a.m. & through porch and an embattled central tower containing one fine Beckington at 6 p.m. WALL LETTER Box cleared at 8.I5 bell : there is a fine Early Norman font encircled by the a. m. & 5·40 p.m. on week days only. Beckington, about tollowingrhymingcouplet:-"Hocfontissacropereuntdelicta 1! miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph lavacro : " on the north side of the church is a. Norman door- office · way, over which, in a niche, is a figure of Our Lord in Glory: Church of School (mixed), built in I857 & sup- inserted in the wall of the vestry is a stone slab, c. 1085, ported by tbe Rev. W. A. Duckworth M.A., J,P. of discovered during the restoration and supposed to be the lid Orchardleigh, Frome; average attendance, 5.1 ; Miss of a C(Jffin : there are several stained windows: the corn· Annie Gorley, mistress Marshall Rev. John Gerald M.A. [vicar] j Gunning John, farmer, Court farm ILedbury Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper Giles John, farmer, Gloucester farm Hoddinott Herbert, farwer, Park farm Welsh ~Irs. shopkeeper is a village and parish, 6 miles south modernized, and consists of chancel, nave, north aisle and a from Dunster station and 6 south-west from western tower containing 5 bells: there are sittings for 200 station on the branch of the Great Western persons. 'fhe register dates from the year I576. The railway, and 8 west from , in the Western division living is a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of , of the county, hundred of Carhampton, Dunster petty ses- joint net yearly value £325, with I! acres of glebe and sional division, Williton union and county court district, residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since rural deanery of Dunster, archdeaconry of Taunton and 1895 by the Rev. Reginald Thomas de Carteret, who resides diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary is a at the vicaraga, Cutcombe. There is a small Bible Christian plain building of stone in the Gothic style, but exte.:J.sive!y ch.tpel. The mlls here are lofty, and th:!< e is much unc.J~i· SO}ICRfET. 20