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- ; of silk at and Shepton Mallet; 4,932; Milborne Port, 1,630; , 3,458; Fortis­ horsehair seating at , and ; head, 3,329; , 3,690; Shepton Mallet, s,ou; bruahes at Wella; of bricks, draining pipes and the cele­ Street, 4,235; Wellington, 7,633; Weston-super-Mare, brated Bath brick at , where are also extensive 23,235; , 1,976; Wiveliscombe, 1,316; and coach building factories ; also manufactories ef spades, with only 1,oo8. shovels and edge tools. This county contains 487 civil parishes, and with Upon the Avon are several mills for preparing iron and the exception of the parishes of Abbot'a Leigh and copper, and other& for spinning worsted and the spinning Bedminster and parts -of Maiden Bradley and Stourton, and weaving of cotton. is ep-extensive with the diocese of Bath and Wells, There are large breweries at Shepton Mallet and is within the province of C'antt'rbury, and divided Crewkerne. into the archdeaconrjes of Bath, Taunton and Wells, The chief mineral productions are coa.{ and free­ the first having no/ arC'hidiaconal court, and in the stone; fullers' earth (4,920 tons in 19u). Clay, otlier two latter the bishop exercising jurisdiction concur­ than fuller~' earth, was raised in 19II to the extent rently with the archdeacons ; Bath archdeaconry is of 92•793 tons, value [3,865. The stone which is divided into Bath deanery, sub-divided into the dis­ eommonly known by the name of Bath stone is quarried trict of Bath, Chew deanery sub-divided into the in thi~t county in 'the neighbourhood of Coombe Down districts of Chew Magna, and Portishead ; and Meneton Coombe and in the adjoining district in Thnnton arohdeac1mry is divided into Bridgwater th& county of Wilts;' Ham Hill stone is found in this deanery, .sub-divided into the districts of Bridgwater county and Doulting stone both here and in Wilts. and Quantoxhead; Crewkerne deanery, district of Crew~ The total :production' 'Of limestone {exclusive of chalk) kerne; Dunster deanery, sub-divided intO' the districts of in: l91t was 483,737 ton~t, 'Value £58,576. There are Dunster and llminster; and Taunton deanery, sub­ •slate quarries at Wiveliscombe and at Treborough, near divided into the districts of Taunton, Wellington and Williron (quantity of -slate quarried in 19n was 308 Wiveliscombe; Wells arohdeaconry is divided into Ax­ tons). Th~ eoal deposit is C'Omparatively ,small, and bridge deaneTy, sub-divided into the districts of Lock­ lies north -and Rorth-east of the irom ing and Axbridge; Cary deanery, sub-divided into the oClapt-o:rt-ili-Gordano tO' Coleford, p-rincipally near Comp­ districts of Cary and Bruton; deanery and dis­ ton Dando; in Igu, 1, 16'1,o~:; tons were raised, valued trict of Frome; deanery, sub-divided into -at the mines at £579i74· 'TM number of persons the districts of Dchester and Burnham ; Ilchester 'tmlpleyed in the- mines in 19~1 was 5,704 under ground deanery, district of ; Merstorl, sub-divided into -and- ~:,os&- abov~ ground. Sandstone was quarried in the districts of Merston, and Milborne c19h t.o the extent of 8o,957 tons, value [12,739; gravel Port; and Pawlett deanery and district of Shepton and sand, 5~1 tans; gypsum, 1,790 tons; igneous rocks, Mallet. '1:-o,ro8 to:ns-; -ehert, flint &e; 1,350 tons; -and ochre, Somersetshire and Bristol are within the West ern Cir­ um·ber &c. 2,685 tons, of which I,361 tons was Ted cuit; the .assizes are held at Taunton, Winter; Wells, le:xide of iron. Summer; Autumn at Taunton and Wells alternately; The total number of persons -employed in all mirtes and Bristol, Summer, Autumn and Winter. The county -and quarrie:~ in 19n was 6,664 under ground and t,503 has one court of quarter sessions and is divided into 22 .above ground; total, 8,167, petty sessional divisions ; the quarter sessions are held Calamine stone was formerly worked at Churchill, Row­ in Spring at Wells; Midsummer, at Taunton; Micbael­ barrow, and Wrington, but. from a ~hange in mas, at Wells; ann Epiphany, at Taunton. ·the manufacture of brass is not now sought after. Bath and Bridgwater have separate courts of Quarter Bristol iS" the great trading town and seaport for tbe SessionR. tcounty, with its docks in the city and subsidiary ones at The Petty Sessional Divisions are :-Axbridge (sittings ATonmouth and Portishead, at the month of the Avon, at Axbridge, Highbridge, Weston-super-Mare & Wring­ "respectively on the Gloucester and Somerset shores ; ton), , Bridgwater, Crewkerne, J)ulver­ Bridgwater is another port on the Bristol Channel, and ton, Frome, ( sittings at Dminster & Chard)~ Weston-super-Mare, a popular bathing town, beside Keynsham, Kilmersdon (sittings at Radstock), Long l{)lev-edm -and: Burnham. Ashton (sittings at Long Ashton and Cletedon), Shepton Tidal Streams in the Bristol ChanneL-North of the Mallet, Somerton (sittings at Somerton and )~ 1parallel of Scilly to the Bristol Channel the tidal stream Taunton, Temple Cloud, Wellington, Wells (sittings Q.t !]j more l'egular than it is south of that limit, and while Wells and Glastonbury), Weston, Williton, Wincanton, the water is falling at Dover, it will be found setting Wiveliscombe and . "to the northward, partaking, near the coast, of the direc­ NOTE. Unless otherwise stated, sittings are held at tion of the shore; and while the water is rising at Dover, the place which gives name to the division. ~etting as sharply -out of the Bristol channel and along the land southward. Observations have shown that at The registration districts are :- Trevose Head, on the Cornish coast, the northern tide No. Place. Acres. Pop. in 19II. makes 12 minutes after Dover, and as a. vessel advances 302 Wilhton.,.n••••·--·••••·1007673 ••••••••••••.,•• l7,965 up the Bristol Channel the stream turns progressively 303 .....•.•.••..•. 78,980 •••• ,. .•••••••• 4.837 30-J. Wellington ...... 61,094 ...... ••..••• .,. 1~,369 later; but the tides of that estuary do not follow exactly • the same laW' as the tides of channels which -are open at 305 Taunton ··············- 73,no •.• , ...... ~··· 40~395 both extremities. 3o6 Bridgwater ...... 88,446 ... .••.•.••.••. 35,004 307 Langport ...... •...•.•. 59,407 ·········-····· 13,347 l'IME OF HH1H WATER ON FULL AND CHA.'IiGE DAYS AT 308 Chard ...... 57,452 ···•···•······· 24,363 PLACES ()N THE COAST OF SOMERSET, WITH THE RISE 309 V- eovil •••et••·····-······ 55,752 ...... _.. 30,21 6 OF THB 'l'IDE AT SPRINGS AND NEAPS :- 310 Wincanton ...... 64,540 ...... 16,439 31 I J4"'rome ················-· 52,752 ...... 22,072 High Water. 312 Shepton Mallet ...... 109 ...... 15,194 Place. Full and Rise*. so, Change. 313 Wells····~················ 66,599 ...... 23,773 ·---1~~~--~~-- 314 Axbridge t ...... 97,720 ...... 52,599 h. m. ~prings. N eaps. 315 Clutton .•.....•....•...•. 47,899 ····-·········• 29,449 Bridgwater Bar ..... _...... 6 so 35 26! 316 Bath ...... •. 30,730 ...... •..• 81,58I Do. Town ...... 8 0 18 317 Keynsham ...... 33,024 •....••••..•.•• 40,029 Weston-super-:Mare ...... 6 54 37 318 Long Ashton ...•.•.....• 51,996 ••..•••...•..•. 25,637 Flatho\m Island ..•...... •.. 6 54 37t Walton Bay ...... •... 7 3 39! The following is a list of poor law unions :­ Portishead or King Road ... 7 1 3 40 AxBRIDGE lTNION :t- Bristol (Cumberland Dock Axbridge Chart:.erhouse on Nyland cum Bat- Gates) ...... 7 13 Badgworth Mendip combe . Cheddar Puxton * By the rise of the tide is meant its v~rtica], rise above the mean low water level of spring tides. Berrow Christon Rowberrow t Indicates that the figures given are approximations. Biddisham Churchill Steep Holme Island The City and C«>unty Borough ()f Bath, with its famed Congresbury Uphill mineral spl'ings1 had in 1911 rwithin its limits a popula~ Brean Highbridg& "North Weare 'l tion of 6g, I73· Brent-East Highbridge-8outh WedmoTe The -othe-r municipal boroughs are Bridgwater, p()pula­ Brent Knol! Button Weston-.super--Mani tion, 16,8o2: Oh&rd, ~.568; Glastonbury, 4,:aso-; Taun~ Burn ham Kewstoke Wick S.t. LaW'renc~· ton, 2:z,s61 f Wells- City, 4,655 and Yeovil, 13,,.59· Burnham Without Locking Winsoombe Other towns a..re Bnrnham, 3·948; , 6,III; Bm-rington Loxton Worle Cr&wketne-, g,939; Fromet, xo,gor; Bi~hbrid~ ~.343'! Butcombe Lympsham Wringtou. ., Dminster, 2,467; Ma.rtoek, 1,966; M1dsomer Norton, Chapel AHerton Mark