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436 TWERTQN. SOMERSET. [KELLY'S . *Skinner Ernest H. painter, LymOTe road TWArton Institute & Reading Rooms ('Vm. Hudd, sec) Slip William, beer reta.iler, 70 Brook. road Twerton Liberal Club (Wm. Kelson, sec.), Victoria bldgs Smith Oharles, ,greengrocer, LoweT Bristol road Twerton Union Olub (Samuel Smith, sec) Smith Ellen (Miss), dress maker, 40 Brougham Hayes Twerton Working Men's ConseI'Yative Association (.T. L. Smith Jame", WaIter, haTdware. deale,r, 31 Victoria bldgs Asher, chairman), Lower Bristol road Smith WaUe,r, dairyman, 48 The 'l'riangle Twining Edward & Sons, coal merchants, The Trian.gle Southwood John William O. New Bridge inn Tye' Jeremiah .James, shopkeeper, BeIlott's road Spear Henry G. beer retaileor, High street Victoria Brick .'V; Tile Co. Limited Stamp Hemy J. shoeing smith, Clyde buildings Victoria Tempemnce Hall, Lower Bristol road Stamp Henry, Jubilee inn, TwertoIli hill Walker ~{aud & Lilly (Misses), news agts. 8 Victoria bldg~ Stotherd & Pitt Limited, engin€-8rs WaIters Samuel, shopkeepe,r, 9 Oaledonian road Summers William, boot maker, 66 Brook road Ward Jame·s, grocer, 6 Stanley place Tanner Minn~e (Miss), teacher of music, IS Victoria bldgs ''''eaving Albert Frauds, grocer, IQ New Road buildings. Tate WaIter F.G.S. chemist, The Woodlands Weight Edwyn, news agent, 20 Brougham Ha.yes *TayloI" Harry, grocer, II Maybrick road *Welch Charles .John, news agent, 4 Livingstone road TaylOT J ame-s Davis & Sons, maltsters Weston Elizabeth (Mrs.), lime burner *Thomas' George, boot repairer, 73 West avenue Whatley John, butche-r & grocer, 25 High street Thomas Joseph, boot maker, 14 Victoria buildings Whee,leI' Erne,st Robart, grocer, Sladebrook Townsend Alice (Miss), dress make,r, 10 Victoria road *White James, dairyman~ 1I Lyndhurst road Trim Edmund Georg8', coal dealer, I Ayre street *White,ford RDbert, hair dresser, 37 Moorland road *Tucker Benjamin, ,grocer, 24 South avenue Whittington John, beer retailer, Waterloo huildings Tucker Edwin Williaru, grocer, I Denmark ro·ad Williams AlicS! (Mrs.), dress maker, 10 Vernon terrace Tucker Jarob, baker 48, &. da.iryman 35, High street *Wilmot Walter Henry, painter, 6 Oynthia road Tuckey William Elias, grocer, 17 St. Peter's terrace; & *Wood Alfred, s,hopkeeper, 35 Livin,gstone road at West avenue Woolley John. butcher, The Triaugle Twerton Co-opemtive Society Limited (Oharles H. Hunt, *Young Thomas, drape'r, 63 West a.venue, sec.), St. Peter's terrace & Lyndhurst road UBIL,EY is a parish and village, on the north side of the The rectory house, adjoining the church, is a substantial Mendip Hills, on the road from Bath to Weston-super- building, and was restored in 1878. Here is a, Wesleyan Mare, and surrounded by lofty undulating- and pic- chapel. Hazel Manor is the residence of Oharles Gathorne turesque hills, 6~ miles west from Sandford station on Hill esq. J.P. and Col. Sir Edward 'Stock Hill K.C.B.• the Clevedon branch of the Great Western railway, 10 V.D. The charities, including- the rent of the poor's north-north-west from Wells and 12 south from BristOl, laud, 'a field of 2 acres, and the interest on about £58, in the Northern division of the county, Chewton hundred, produce about £6 yearly, which is distributed in bread Olutton union, Temple Oloud petty sessional division and and money. A. fair is held on the 4th September, yearly county court district, rural deanery of Chew, archdeaconry here for cattle. Lead ore is found here; and on the of Bath and diocese of Bath and Wells. A tributary of Mendip Hills in this parish are Roman remains. Benja the river Yeo flows through the parish. The church of min Edward Somers esq. of Mendip Lodg-e, Churchill, is St. Bartholomew is an eleg-ant structure of carboniferous lord of the manor; Oharles Gathorne Hill esq. '001. Sir limestone, in the Decorated and Perpendacular styles, con- Edward Stock Hill K.O.B. and John Gifford Everett esq. sisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, north porch are the chief landowners. The soil is various; subsoil, and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles and a limestone. The chief crops are oats. and most of the spire, and containing 4 bells: there is a piscina on the land is in pasture. The acreage is 1,800; rateable value, south side of the chancel and another in the south aisle: £2,264; the population in 1901 was 332. in ,the chancel is also a chained. copy of the [Paraphrase Sexton, William Durbin. • of Erasmus on the New Testament, dated 1522: the o·ak Post Office..:....-Samuel Horlor, ,sub-postmaster. Letters; communion table dates from 1637, and the east window is through Bristol,arrive at 8.20 '!l.m. i& 5.25 p. m. i dis- stained: a silver and glass flagon and a silver paten have patched a.t 7.5 a.m. & 4.10 p.m. in summer & 7.5 a.m. been presented to the church by the lord of the manor: & 3.50 p.m. in winter; sundays, 3.10 p.m. Postal the church was thoroughly restored in I8t'S, at a cost of orders are issued here, but not paid. Compton Martin £1,°78, and ,in 1876 the north porch was added: there is the nearest money order & Bla,gdon the nearest tele- are 170 sittings: the churchyard was considerably en- graph office, 2 miles distant larged in 1895, -and consecrated in 1'807. The register National School (mixed), built in 1876, for .12 children; dates from the year 1671. The living is a rectory, net average attendance, 48; Miss Hockey, mistress yearly value £220, including 79 acres of g-lebe, with Oarriers.-John Marsh, to 'Hope & Anchor,' Bristol. residence, in the gift of and held since 1,8q7 by the Rev. mono thurs. & sat. & Francis Payne, tues. & fri.; John Arthur Jones M.A. of Pembroke Oollege, Oxford. leave Ubley at 7.30 a.m. & Bristol for Ubley at 4.30 p.ll . (Letters for Nordrach Sanatorium Caple Thomas, farmer, Southwell ho Lovell Harold, farm bailiff to J. H. should be addressed, Blagdon.) Creed George, farmer Weaver esq, Ubley Hill farm Crocker Mrs Franks Charles, carpenter, builder, Lye Alfred, farmer & haulier Dadswell Miss, Sussex cottage timber merchant & saw mills Marsh John, carrier Franks Valentine, Albert villa Franks Charles (Mrs.), shopkeeper Panes Charles, farmer Harrison Mrs. Somerset house Franks John, farmer, Manor farm Payne Francis, carrier, Woodhouse fm Hill Charles Gathorne J.P. Hazel Gallop Arthur, farmer Payne Jane (Mrs.), dairy farmer, manor Gallop Ohas. farmer & asst. overseer Woodhouse farm Hill 001. Sir Edward Stock KC.B., George William, farmer Pearce William Lewis, dairy farmer. V,D. Hazel manor Horlor Samuel, snb-postmaster Rookery farm Jones Rev. John Arthut M.A. Rectry Humphries John, blacksmith Pyatt Wm. dairy farmr.Oleve Hill fm Keel James, Somerset house Hurford John William, dairy farmer, Saunders William George, Bell inn Smith Andrew Scott M.D., C.M., Ubley farm Sheppard John, dairy farmer M.A. Nordrach-upon-Mendip Keedwell Charle~, dairy farmer· Simmons George Herbert, grocer, dra- Thurman William Rowland M.D., Keedwell Fredericl{, farmer per, ironmonger, boot & shoe ware B.s. Nordrach-upon-Mendip Nordrach-upon-Mendip Sanatorium house & carpenter, Ubley stores . Trenchard Henry John, Nordrach· for the Treatment of Diseases of the Simmons William Hy. dairy farmer upon.Mendip Lungs (William Rowland Thurnam Wareham William, farm bailiff to M.D., B.S. Andrew Scott Smith Charles Gathorne Hill esq.Home fro COMMERCIAL. MDCMMA. ., . ., .. & Henry J 0 hn Wyatt Herbt. dairyman, Warren farm Caple Charles Wesley, farmer, South· Trenchard, resident medical staff), Young John (Mrs.), farmer well house Mendip hill UPHILL is a village and parish at the mouth of the the Early English font, formerly in the old church, has Axe on the Bristol Channel, with a station, called Bleadon been removed to prespnt church; in 11892 a new chancel and Uphill, on the Great Western railway, and is 2 miles was built, the floor of the nave laid with wood blocks arid south from Weston-super-Mare and 139 from London, in new oak benches replaced the old fashioned high pews: the Wells division of the county, Wmterst{)ke hundred the oak reredos, choir stalls, and wrought-iron gates to! Axbridge petty sessional division and union. Weston-super the chancel were 'gifts, and the brass lectern was pre-· Mare county court district, rural deanery of Locking, sented 'by C. E. Whitting esq. ~n m.emory of his wife archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. Maria E. Whitting, d. March 16, 1879: the total oast of The church of St. Nicholas, erected in 1'844, is a building the 'restoration amounted to upwards of £2,100, of which of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of ch:mcel, the present rector and Mrs. Burr contributed [,1,200; nave and an embattled western tower, conta.ining one bell ; in 1896 the interior walls were decorated, and in r897.