SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLY S Ballett Isabella (Mrs.), Baker Powell George, Brick, Tile &

7 488 WIT .HAM FRIARY. SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLY S Ballett Isabella (Mrs.), baker Powell George, brick, tile &. drain pipe Walwin Wm. farmer, Moor Park faim Ballet~ Rezia, farmer, Sweetnap farm maker, Bolt Westover Arth. farmer, Tyne Mead frm Boddinott Edward John, fa1mer, Wit- Rossiter Charles, farmer, Moorleaze White Arthur, farmer, Lower West ham Hall farm Salvidge William CnJ1iford, Seymour Barn farm Hoddinott Simon, farmer, New house .\ l'ms P.H White Waiter, farmer, Downs,Bellerica Hollqway John Henry, draper & grocer Smith William, farmer, Iron mills & .A:neyfield farms Hussey Thos. farmer, Great West barn Tanner Henry, blacksmith & wheelwt WITHIEL FLOREY is a parish and village on is also rector of and resides at Treborough. The West the road between Williton and Dulverton, 7 miles north Somerset Mineral railway runs from W atchet to Gup­ of Morebath station on the Devon and Somerset section worthy, conveying coal, lime and produce: it was originally of the Great Western railway, 8 south from Washford constructed for the transport of minerals from the dis­ station on the West Somerset Mineral railway, 7 north- trict, but the mines are not now worked. James Hervey east from Dulverton, 8 north-west from Wiveliscombe Insole esq. of Chargot Lodge, Luxborough, who is lord anu 7 south-west from Williton, in the Western division of the manor, and Messrs. G. L. and R. Cornish, of Stog­ of the county, petty sessional division of Dulverton, union, umber, are the principal landowners. The soil is shaly .hundred and county court district of Williton, rural dean- and rocky. The land is ohiefly in pasture. The acrea.ge .ery of Wiveliscombe, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese is 2,485; rateable value, £1,595; the. population in 1891 .of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary is an ancient was 114. building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting .of chancel, nave, south porch and a low embattled western Parish Clerk, James Molls. -tower, partly cased with slate, and containing 3 bells: Letters arrive from Taunton on tuesdays, thursdays & in the chancel are two stained windows, one of which was saturdays at 11.30 a.m. Washford & Winsford are the erected in 1882 by J. H. Insole esq. as a memorial to his nearest money order & telegraph offices; both are mother: in the same year the church was re-seated and about 8 miles distant the chancel repaired, the expense being defrayed by Mr. b Insole: there are sittings for 100 persons. The reDunster and Minehead, 2! miles south- pasture. The area is 1,787 acres; rateable value, £3,249; east from Dunster station on the West Somerset brn.nch the population in 18gr was, civil 365, ecclesiastical 233. of the Great Western railway and 5 west from Williton RODHUISH is a hamlet and was formerly a. detaohed and c; south-east from Minehead, in the Western division part of Carhampton parish, but on March 25, r884, by (){ the county, hundred of Carhampton, petty sessional Local Government Board Order 14,509, it was amalga­ divi~ion of Dunster, union and county court district of mated with this parish for civil purposes, but is still WilUon, rural deanery of Wiveliscombe, archdeac()nry of in the ecclesiastical parish of Carhampton. Here is a Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of chapel of ea;;t, served by the vicar of Carharnpton; divine St. Nioholas is an ancient building of stone in the Per- service is conducted at 3 p.m. everv Sunday except the pendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave and an em- last in the month, when the service is at n a.m. kt~:ed tower on the south s:de CJnta:nbg 4 be~ls: there are sittings for 150 persons. The reg:sters date from Sexton, Henry Griffiths. r65g, but are imperfect from 1713 to 172 0 • The living Letters from Taunton (through Carhampton), arrive at is a rectory, net yearly value £133, including 7 acres of 7·55 a.m. Dunster is the nearest money order & tela- glebe, with residence, in the gift of the representatives of graph office, 2! miles distant. There is a Wall Letter the laj;e James Pulleine esq. and held since z8g4 by the Box in the village, near the church, cleared at 6 p.m. Rev. George William: Govan Lic.Div. of St. David's Col- week days only & at Rodhuish, cleared at 5.30 p.m. lege, I.ampeter. Here is a chapel for Bible Christians. week days only George Fownes Luttrell esq. of Dunster Castle, is lord of Parochial Soho()1 (mixed), erected in z866, for 6o chil- the manor and chief land()wner. The soil is stone-rush dren; average attendance, 6o; Miss Johanna Keith, on red sand ; the subsoil various, including marl, gravel mistress Coombes Mrs. The Cottage Case William. blacksmith Lutley William, farmer, Escott farm Govan Rev. George 1Villiam Lic.Div. Chilcott Albert J. wheelwright Meadman Henry, mason Rectory Greed George, miller (water), Lang- Nethercott William, farmer, Drucombe Tyler William R. H. Lower Rodhuish ridge mills Oatway John, farmer, Sandhill Griffith Jonathan, carpenter Pearse Henry, road contractor COMMERCIAL. Griffith William, tailor Pearse William, shopkeeper Beer Ernest, miller (water), Withy- Hagley Charles, farmer, Combe Sully William, shoe maker co~.bft mills Harrison Charles, carpenter.. Tyler William R. H. farmer, Lower Case Caleb Clifford, frmr. Jenkins frm Hurford Joseph Mark, rmid contractor, Rodhuish Case Edgar F. farmer Rodhuish Vicary James, Old King's Arms P.H Case Herbt. R. frmr. Higher Rodhuish Leversha Thos. H. farmer, Court pl Watts John, farmer, Styles, Rodhuish Case Robert, farmer, Withycombe farm Lutleyt Herbert, assistant overseer for Willis Thomas, wheelwright, Rodhuish Case Thomas, farmer, Rodhuish Carhampton, Escott farm WITHYPOOLE is a parish and village, on the north 8, 1617. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient ed:fice bank of the river .Barle, 6l miles north from East Anstey in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave station on tPe Devon and Somerset section of the Great of three bays, north aisle and south porch: in 1887 the Western railway, 8 north-'VIest from Dulverton, xo interior of the church was restored, at a cost of £150, north-east from South Molton and IO south-west from one-third being defrayed by Giles Yarde esq. and the Dunster, in the Western division of the county, hundred remainder by the parishioners: there are sittings for no of Williton, union and petty sessional division of Dulver- persons. The register dates from the year 1653. The ton, county court district of South Molton, rural deanery living is a chapelry, annexed to the rectory of Hawk­ of Dunster, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath ridge, joint net yearly value f.4oo, including 605 acres and Wells. The river Ba.rle, a tine trout stream, rises in of glebe, with residence, in the gift of E. Newman esq. Exmoor, and after flowing in a. parallel line with the Exe and held since 1881 by the Rev. Rowland Newman M.A. for 14 or 15 miles unites with it a.t Exe bridge, about 3 of Trinity CDllege, Cambridge, who resides at Hawkridge. miles south-east from Dulverton. This place gave rise A small Wesleyan· chapel was erected here in x88r. Two to the knightly family of Withipoll or Withipole, said to stc.ck sales are held here annually, in April and August. have originally come out of Italy and to have settled MarwQod Notley esq. of Combe Sydenham, Stogumber, here; fr()lll about the middle of the r6th century they who is lord of the manor, and Miss Riccard are the prin­ were resident at Christ Church priory, Ipswich ; Sir cipal landowners, but there are also a number of small Edmund Withipole was knighted at the Isle Qf Wight in owners. The soil is shillet and peat, and the subsoil 1579; and Sir William Withypole at Hat.tQn House, Nov. rock. The parish is purely agricultural, adjoining Ex-