DIRECreRY.] SOMERSET. WOOKEY. 500 WIVELISCOMBE WITHOUT. Hancock Frank, Ford house Davy Thomas, farmer, Pyncombe Slocombe Wm. shpkpr.L:mgleyMarsh Lefebore Fredk. John, Ford cottage Dinham Thomas, farmer, Quaking ho Spratt Richard Coleman, castrator, . Pearse Thomas Vincent, Langley ho. Elliott George, farm bailiff to Mrs. Langley ~1arsh Langley Cross Bellew, Oakhampton farm Stacey John Morris & Son, farmers, Tyler The Misses, The Cottage, Ford Frost Sarah (Mrs.), dairy farmer, Butcher's farm, Croford Langley Marsh Stevens Charlotte (Mrs.), dairy far- COMMERCIAL. Hattin Daniel,farmer,Taylor'8 fm.Ford mer, Maundon Arscott Frederick, Thomas & Miss, Hepper James, farmer, Culverhay Stone Richard John, miller (water) & butchers & farmers, Langley Marsh Joyce John, farmer, Fleed farm farmer, Croford Arscott William & Frederick, farmers Lansdown Wm. & Son, flmrs.Harwd Stone Robt. thatcher,Langley Marsh & cattle dealers, Ford Locke Thomas, Deep Leigh inn, '& Thomas In.inland revenue officer,Ford :Bennett Wm. Leversha,frmr.Park fm farmer, Langley Thorne George Radley, farmer. Jews 13icknell Roben, farmer, Lower park Oxenham Chas. wheelwright, Langley Webber Charles. blacksmith, Cl'oford Boucher Thomas, farmer & landownr. Parrott Mary (Mrs.), farmer,Challick Webber John, blacksmith, Langley Greenway Pulsford Wm. carrier, Langley Marsh' Williams Amos, farmer, Manor house Brice Jas .dairy farmer, Grant's farm Rockett James Ansty, farmer, White- Wiveliscombe Slate Quarrier Co.Lim. Cowley Thomas, farmer, Perry's fa.rm field & Simon's Holt (John Bryant, overseer) Cowling Mary Ann (Mrs.), Three Sellick Robert, farmer, Withycombe Wyatt James, farmer, Croford Horse Shoes P.H. Langley Marsh Slape Brothers, farmers, Croford . WOOKEY i,s a village and extensive parish, on the road says was in rnins in his time, c, 1470. In this hamlet from Wells to Wedmore, at the foat of the Mendip Hills, was found, in the time of Henry VIII. a plate ()f lead, 'With a station 1 mile south-west from the village, within inscribed with the name of the Roman Emperor Claudius, the parish of Out St. Outhbert, Wells, on the Cheddar set up to commemorate the final defeat of the Cangi by Valley branch of the Great Western railway, 125 miles the Roman general Ast()fius, A.D. 49. !from London and 2 west from WeUs, in the Wells division Parish Clerk, George Dennis. of the county, hundred of Wells Forum, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Wells, rural WOOKEY HOLE is a hamlet, 2 miles north-west from deanery ofAxbridge, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese Wells, principally in the out-parish of St. Cuthbert, of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Matthew is an Wells, a ·small part only being in Wookey: it derives ancient building of stone, in the Gothic style of the 14th its name from the well-known cavern, naticed by Clemens century, consisting of chancel, nave with an arcade of of Alexandria, a writer of the 2nd century, and by William three bay,s on either side, aisles, a mortuary chapel to of Worcester (1415-9°): from the cavern the river Axe the Clarke family, added in the 16th century, south rushes in a rapid torrent: in and near the cavern remains {lor~h and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, of the rhinocero8 and of extinct animals, human remains, cont.aining a clock and 5 bells: the font is ancient: and Roman coins have been found; on the west side is there are monuments tBeckington (1443-66) are Office, Wookey Hole. John Henry Morgan, sub-post­ d'ated from this place. Mi,ss Burnebt-Stuart, who is lady master. Letters through Wells delivered at 7 a.m. &; cl the manor; Lord Brougham and Vaux, the trustees of 2·35 p.m.; dispatched 11.35 a.m. & 6.35 p.m. week the late Ven. E. A. Salmon M.A. archdeacon of Wells days. Wells is the nearest telegraph office, 2 miles (d. 1<899) and the Rev. J. Band are the chief land­ distant ()wners. The soil varies; a rich loam prevails near the A School Board of 5 membeI"1S was formed October 20, village, and on the hill and near the river Axe, which 11875; Rev. Edward Barnwell Oook RA. chairman &; has its source in "wo-okey Hole," it is a bed of diluvial clerk to the board gravel; on the south of the village blue lias prevaiLs, Board School (mixed), enlarged in 1894, for 200 children; 'covered with Istrong clay. The land is chiefly in pasture, average attendance, r40; William John Clothier Pin­ I()n which large c1airies are kept, producing excellent ton, master; Mrs. Henrietta Jane Pinton, mistress; Cheddar cheese. The acreage is 3,420; rateable value, Miss Emma Lewin, infants' mistress £8,231; the population in 189r wa,s 961 in the civil and Board School, Wookey Hole (mixed), nnder Out-St. 5<64 in the ecclesiastical parish. Cuthbert's, Wells & Priddy United Board; erected in 1872 & enlarged in r882-3, for 200 children; average CASTLE, 2 miles south-south-west, no doubt derives attendance, 124; James Grant, master i\..s name from Fenny Ca'Stle, an ancient fortification -st,anding on a hill there, which William (}f Worcester Police Sta,tion, William Neades, constable WOOKEY. Baker Elizabeth (Miss), beer retailer Hockey Arthur, butcher Burnett-Stuart Miss, Mellifont Barnard Charles, blacksmith Hurd William, farmer, Worth Cook Rev. Edward Barnwell B. A. Brown Joseph, farmer, Castle Masters Thomas, farmer Vicarage Burden Thomas, farmer, Court farm Pearce Joseph, cowkeeper Frith Misses, Rose cottage Chapman George Parsons, farmer Phelps Sarah (Mrs.),frmr.Knowle fm Thrale-Perkins Col. Alfred J.P. East­ Clements Thomas, farmer Spearing' Charles, cowkeeper court Cox Fred, farmer & cattle dealer Stott James Robert, farmer, Castle "Tyley Robert, Worth Day Thomas, grocer & draper Stubbins Harry, Ring of Bells P.H Welch Mrs. Worth Dennis Edward, carpenter Tincknell Henry, farmer, Worth COMMERCIAL. Edgar Jesse, farmer, Church farm Tyley Rt.auctioneer & tang agt.Worth Adlam Edward, farmer, Hembury Frayne Peter, dairyman Trollope George, baker