DlllliCTORY.J SOl\IERSETSHIRE. DUNSTER. 209 lffere are quarries of freestone of a very durable character. • same time on sundays. The nearest money order & tele- .John Colthurst esq. of Chew Court, Chew Magna, is lord of graph office is at Chew Magna. l'ostal orders are issued, -the manor. The principal landowners are William Adlam but not paid .esq. n.L., J.P., li'.S.A. of Chew Magna, and the Bristol WALL LETTER Dox, East Dundry, cleared at. 4 p.m.; & Cllarity trustees. The soil is loamy; the subsoil is of oolite West Dundry, at 4.30 p.m formation. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots, INSURANCE AGENTS :- .and there is much pasture land. The area is 2,799 acres; County Fire, S. l3linman Tateable value, £6,3o6; the population in J88I was s6s. Imperial Fire, J. a Shorland, The Grove Parish Clerk, William Payton. · National School (mixed & infants), built in 1857, for 108 PosT OFFICE.-James Barnes, sub-postmaster, Letters children; average attendance, 66; Robert Moon, master; from Bristol arrive at 7·45 a. m. ; dispatched at 4·45 p.m. ; Mrs. Mary Moon, mistress >Gillett Rev. John William B.A. [vicar], Gallop George, farmer Marshall George, beer retailer Vicarage Gallop William, farmer, Upton farm Marshall Geo. sen. farmr.Littleton farm Lndlow Edmund, Highridge house Gillett Alfred, farmer, Keedwell's farm Marshall Henry, farmer Shorland James Hellier, The Grove Golding John, Carpenters' Arms P.H Marshall John, farmer,Barrow common Griffin Benjamin, farmer & landowner, Marshall William, farmer, Littleton COMMERCIAL. East Dundry Pearce William, Dundry inn Ball Stephen, hay dealer Griffin Edwin, farmer, Littleton Pow William Ja.mes, Winford Arms l'.H Baston Charles (Mrs.), farmer Griffin William, farmer & landowner j Pugh Waiter, butcher Battenbury John Edward, baker Hale Henry, blacksmith Read Charles, wheelwright Jninman Samuel, assistant overseer Hard wick William,farmer,East Dundry Rich George, dairyman Brock John, farmer, East Dundry · Harrison Joseph, fannAr, Hillside farm Sweet Wm. farmer, Folly House farm Brock Jsph. Chas. farmr.Highridge frm Harwood Samuel, shopkeeper Walker Benjamin, dairy farmer Clements Henry, mason Keedwell William, farmer Weaver James, farmer Clements William, stone mason Knight Samuel, farmer, Walnut farm ·weaver John, farmer Coleman Henry, market gardener Lovell Charles, jun. farmer, Littleton Weaver Michael, farmer, Grove farm 'Cox Alfred, boot & shoe maker Lucas Thomas, farmer, Upton farm, Webb Jabez, shoe maker Gadd Albert, coffee rooms East Dundry DUNKERTON is a village and parish, 5 miles south- with house, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1874 by the west from Bath, 4 north-north-east from Radstock, 2 north- Rev. Gerard Ludlow Hallett LL.M. of Trinity Hall, Cam east from Camerton terminal station of a branch of the Great bridge. Here is a Baptist chapel. The principal land Western railway from Hallatrow, and 2~ north-west from owners are James Daniels and the trustees of the late Wellow station on the Somerset and Dorset joint railway, Robert Cooke. The surface is hilly, and there are some fine in the Frome division of the county, Wellow hundred, Wes- views from the high grounds. The soil is clayey; subsoil, ton petty sessional divi!>ion, Bath union and county court stone. The crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans, but the distdct, Midsomer Norton district of the rural deanery of land is chiefly pasture. The acreage is 1,233; rateable Frome, arch deaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. value, £2,438 ; the population in x88r was 1,019. The Somersetshire canal passes through, and a small rivulet The ecclesiastical parish of St. John's, Peasdown, was waters part of the parish. The church of All Saints is a formed out of the parishes of Dunkerton, Wellow and building of stone, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, Camerton, Aug. u, 1874, and is given under a separate consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled heading. western tower with pinnacles, containing 5 bells: the corn- CARLINGCOT, 2 miles south-west, and TuNLEY, 2 west, are munion table is of oak with richly carved panels of cedar: hamlets in this parish. all the windows are stained, and the east window is a Parish Clerk, James Lewis. • memorial to the Rev. Frederick Grosvenor, 25 years rector PosT OFI<'ICE.-James Lewis, postmaster. Letters from Bath
£3r8, gross yearly value £410, including 48 acres of glebe 1 average attendance, 73; Miss Amelia Payne, mistress Hallett Rev. Gerard Ludlow LL,M. Holvey Elijah, carpenter Pike John Fredk. farmer, North Hill ho Rectory Humphreys Edward, haulier Skuse Susannah (Mrs.), beer retailer Love George, farmer Stamp Jesse, mason COMMERCIAL. Milburn Frederick, farmer, Ashgrove VaughanEdward,farmer&Crosswaysinn •Cbivers Job, butcher & grocer, Tunley Parker Charles, blacksmith, Tunley Weaver Frederick Geo.King William P.H ·Cook Fredk. Chas. wheelwright, Tunley Pearce William, farmer, Carlingcot Weeks George, beer retailer Daniels Harriet (Mrs.), farmer PerryFredkWm.farmr.Severcombefrm Weeks James, farmer Gooding Benjamin, beer retailer Pickford Charles, farmer, Church farm ·weeks Samborne, farmer >Gore John, Swan inn PickfordJames, farmer DUNSTER, a market town and parish and head of a petty as to their respective rights in the church, it was directed by 'sessional division, situated on the high road from Minehead arbitrators that the latter should use the nave, constructing to Williton, and bounded on the north by the Bristol a separate choir within it, and that the former should retain ·Channel, is 162 miles from London, 22 north-west from the choir proper and transepts ; this arrangement led to the Taunton, 24 west from Bridgwater, and 2~ south-east from almost entire reconstruction of the fabric, the Norman Minehead, with a station on the West Somerset branch of tower being removed and the present tower erected between the Great Western railway, in the Western division of the the monastic and parochial sections of the church, the new county, in the hundred of Carhampton, Williton union and transept thus forming a noble vestibule to the conventual county court district1 rural deanery of Dunster, archdea- choir, the rood screen of which was erected under the -conry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The eastern arch of the tower, and aisles of two bays were also church of St. George, the eastern portion of which formed then added, and a small chantry erected on the north side : the ancient priory church, is a long, low and irregular cruci- a little to the west of the western arch of the tower a large form building of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, Norman arch, not now perfect, with lateral masonry, spans but with some Norman portions and traces of Early English the nave and serves as the western limit of the presbytery, work, and consists of choir of three bays with aisles, tran- which is now beneath the tower : the fine oak rood screen of septs and north chantry, nave, aisles with arcades of four the old parochial church stretches across the east end of the bays on the north side and six on the south, south porch and nave and its aisles, and has fourteen arches fitted with a lofty central embattled tower 92 feet high, with diagonal! elaborate tracery, and attached to the south aisle is an buttresses and slender crocketed pinnacles, and a battle- octagonal embattled tuuet containing the rood staircase : the mented stair turret at the north-west angle; in the tower font is Perpendicular : in the monastic church, now a private are 8 fine-toned bells and a clock with chimes : the whole chapel of the Luttrells, are several stately monuments to .structure is about 180 feet in length, and during the later this family and others, including one of alabaster, with re history of the priory comprised two distinct churches, the cumbent effigies, to Sir Hugh Luttrell kt. ob. 143r, and monastic and parochial, but up to the end of the xsth Catherine(Beaumont), his wife :therearememorialwindows -century the church appears to have consisted of a Norman to Charles Edward Ledward, of HiH Park, Frankby, nave with aisles, transepts, with small eastern chapels, Cheshire, d. 1875; one with inscription on brass to Richard ' massive central tower and an aisleless choir; in 1499, in Utten Todd, rs years rector of Dunster, erected by parish -consequence of a dispute between the monks and parishioners ioners and friends in 1886 ; four in the south aisle to 1\:lary S. G. & B. 14