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esq. are the principal landowners. The ,soil is chiefly Sexton, Samuel Cooke. day; the subsoil is stone. The chief crops are cereal. Letters through Bridgwater arrive at 7.30 a.m. & at 5,30 The urea is 1,325 acres; rateable value, £2,108; the popu- p.m. Spaxton is the nearest money order & telegraph lation in I891 was I91 in the civil and 197 in the eccle- office siastical parish. Wall Letter Box, Ashford corner, cleared at 6.30 p.m Under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act, Church of School, enlarged in 1884, for 60 child- 1882," Bush Farm has been transferred from this parish ren; average attendance, 40; Miss Annie Jones, mistrss to Spaxton. Carrier to Bridgwater, see Spaxton. Marked thus * letters through Bridg- Cunn John Henry, Gothelney hall Kidner Francis, farmer, Swang farm water, via Nether Stowey. Dillon Chrstphr.S.frmr.Currypoo1 frm *Lee Rd. Fredk.farmer, Padnoller frm Bell Rev. William Atkinson, Rectory *Escott Samuel, smith, Keenthorne CHARLTON ADAM is a village on the river Cary 28 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Wilmot Lee and on the old Roman Fosse road to , S! miles Bryan esq. of South ·Godstone, Surrey, and held since north-west from station on the Wilts, Somerset 1861 by the Rev. Percival Wilmot Bryan, of St. Bees. and Weymouth branch of the Great Western railway, 3 Here is a Wesleyan chapel, seating 120 persons. William east from Somerton and 4 north-west from Ilchester, in Dickinson esq. of Kingweston House, who is lord of the' the Eastern division of the county, Somerset hundred and manor, and John Huntley Thring esq. of Alford, are petty sessional division, union and county court I the chief landowners. The population of the ecclesiastical district, rural deanery of Ilchester, archdeaconry of Wells parish in I8g1 was 295. and diocese of Bath and Wells. Under the provisions of Parish Clerk and Sext-on William Gaylard the Divided Parishes Act this parish was, by Local .' . Government Board Order 19,585, in March, 1885, for civil Post. Office.-Edwm Eades, sub-postmaster. Letters purposes amalgamated with , Gompton I arrIve through Somerton S.O. at 7.30 a.m. &, 6·5 p.m. Dundon and Kingweston. The church of SS. Peter and I (to callers only); ?OX closes 5.20 p.m. wee.k days ?nly. Paul is an ancient building of ,stone in the Perpendicular I Postal ~rde.rs are Issued here, but not paId. Kemton style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a west-: Man?evll1~ IS the nearest money order &telegraph office, ern tower containing a clock and 5 bells: it was thorough- 3 mlles dIstant ly restored in 1892 at a cost of £900, under the superin- National School (infants), for '50 children; average at- tendence of Mr. H. Wilson, of Sedding and Wilson, archi- tendance, 25; Miss Ada A. Lunt, mistres~ tects, of London. The register dates from the year 1704. The older children of this place attend the school at Charl· The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £68, including, ton Mackrell Bryan Rev. Percival Wilmot, Vicarage Dyer Jas. quarry owner & stone mer 'Hockey WaIter, farmer Hockpy Henry Dyer Sidney, cattle dealer & farmer Hockey William, farmer, Chist1es Ware Uriah Eades Aubrey Culling, blacksmith Holland Thomas, baker & grocer Eades Edwin, shopkeeper, Post office Murch In. Phillips, farmer,Manor fm COMMERCIAL. Everitt Frederick, flour agent Sweet Arthur, beer retailer Cary James, farmer &; quarry owner, Fox Enos, mason Temperance Hall (Miss A. M. Chan- Tout Hallett George Henry Penny, quarry cello 1', sec) Chancellor Hy. Joseph, grocr. &; drapr owner & stone merchant Weech William, farmer, Adams farm

CHARLTON HORETHORNE is a parish, bore Wingfield-Digby M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. formerly a market town, on the road from Winranton to Here is a Wesleyan chapel. 'Lh6 charities of £20 yearly Sherborne, one mile and a half north-west from Milborne value include Wright's, which is distributed as follows: Port station on the London and South Western railway and £2 to the vicar for preaching a sermon, £I to the parish 5 south-west from , in the Eastern division of clerk and £5 to the second poor; Peddle's of [,3 and the county, Horethorne hundred, Wincanton petty ses- Phabayn's of £9 annually for distribution amongst the sional division, union and county court district, rural poor. In this parish are three round barrows, which in deanery of , archdeaconry of Wells and dio- July, 1877, were examined by the late Professor Rolleston, cese of Bath and Wells. The church of SS. Peter and of Oxford, and the late Lieut.-Gen. Fox-Pitt-River's F.B.S., Paul, formerly belonging to Kenilworth Priory, is a fine F.S.A. when a quantity of pottery, a bark coffin contain­ old building of stone, partly in the Perpendicular style, ing a bronze da,g-g-er and human bones, together with consisting of chancel, nave of three ba~'s, aisles, south ot,her human remains, burnt and unburnt, with flints, porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, were found. An ancient British road runs near, to the containing 8 bells, 4 of which were returned and 4 others north and west. John Kenelm 'Digby Wingfield-Digby added at the expense of the Rev. John Finden Smith esq. M.P. of Sherborne Castle, is lord of the manor and Phabayn ~LA. vicar 1844-89: a portion of the church plate chief landowner. The soil i,s stone brash; the subsoil dates from the year 144I: the stain:ed east window was is stone. The chief crops are corn and some land in inserted in 18]I by George W. Digby esq. and there are pasture. The area is 2,334 acres; assessable value, memorial windows in the chancel to George, Robbins, d. £1,988; the 'population in 189I was 456. 1880; to the Rev. J. F. S. Phabayn, late vicar, d. 1889, Parish Clerk, Frank Davis. and two others to members of his family: in the aisles are Post & M. O. 0., S. B. ,& Annuity &; Insurance Office.- three, one to George and Jane Parsons, d. 1882, and two William Henry Pridham, sub-postmaster. Letters ar- othel's to members of the Vigour and Hussey families. l'ive from Sherborne at 7.35 a.ill. & 3 p.m. ; dispatched The church was partially renovated in 1-846 and com- pletely restored in 3 at a cost of £I,OOO: there are at 6·5 p.m. week days only. Milborne Port railway sta- 186 tion is the nearest telegraph office, 3 miles distant sittings for 3'50 persons: the lych gate was erected in 1888 by the late vicar. The register dates from 1734, but a National 'School '(mixed), enlarged in 189'3, at a cost of great portion of it has been lost. The living is a vicarage, .£'400, for 120 children; average attendance, 82; Alfred net yearly value £265, including 40 acres of glebe, wit,h W. Packe, master; Mrs. A. W.Packe,assistant mistress; residence, in the gift of J. Kenelm D. Wingfield-Digby Miss Ada L. Clarke, infants' mistress esq. M.P. and held since 1899 by the Rev. Frederick Wyld- Station, Albert Giles, constable BpadoIl Major-General Edward Mus- Bl'unker Martha (Miss), baker Parsons Uriah (Mrs.), farmer, Manor grave, Gunville house Burfitt James, farmer IJridham Wm. Hy. grocer, Post office Smith Mrs. Knapp house Dibben George, butcher Uogers George, grocer Wingfield-Digby Rev. Frederick Giles Albert, police constable Stacey Alfred, farmer, Middle farm Wyldbore M.A. Vicarage Gillingham Frank, blacksmith Stacey William Edwd. farmer, Vale Hannam Richard, farmer, Shepherd's '1'alhot Surah (Miss), farmer COMMERCIAL. Hayter Charles, farmer '1'homas John, grocer & draper Dlackmore Vale Kennels (George Al- Knight William, coal dealer Thorn Eliza (Miss), twine spinner cock, huntsman; Frands Nesbit Miller Arthur, dairyman 'rant Philip & Charles, joiners Rennison, stud groom) Parsons Geo. farmr. Gunville&Sigwell Wright Charles, King's Arms P.H CHARLTON :MACKRELL (or West Charlton) is deaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. Under a parish and village on the river Cary and on the old the provisions, of the "Divided Parishes Act, I 882," by Roman Fosse road to Ilchester. 6 miles north-west from Local Government; Board Order 19,5'85, part of ·Charlton Sparkford station on the Great Western railway, 3 east Adam parish has been amalgamated with this parish. The from ,Somerton, la miles north from , 8 south from church of St. Mury the Virgin is an ancient IJ:milding of Glastonbury and 4 north from Ilchester. in the Eastern stone, restored in the Perpendicular style, and consists of division of the county, Somel'ton hundred and Somerton chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and an embattled and Lang-port petty sessional division, Langport union and central tower with a single pinnacle and containing a county court district, rural deanery of Ilchester, arch- clock and 6 bells: all the windows are stained; the stained