HIGH AND LOW OR} DIRECTORY.] SOMERSET. { NETHER HAM. 273 produces prolific crops of wheat, beans, barley, flax, man­ arrive from Taunton at 7.5 a.m. week days; sundays, golds, potatoes and turnips. The area of the parish is 7.25 a.m.; dispatched at 8.30 a.m. & 5.55 p.m.; sun­ about 1,320 acres; rateable value, £2,630; the population days, dispatched at 9.30 a.m. Posta,l orders are issued in 1901 was 358. here, but not paid. Bishops Lydeard is, the nearest Under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act, money order & telegraph office, 3 miles distant 1882," a part of the ancient parish of Hillfarrance has Parochial School (mixed), erected in 1848 by the late been amalgamated with Halse for civil purposes. Edward Prior esq. & endowed by him with £30 yearly Sexton, Philip Grattan. for 100 children; average attendance, 61 children; Mrs. Post Office.-John A. Taylor, sub-postmaster. Letters I Alice Ellis, mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. New inn, commercial inn & posting Hancock Mrs. Blake's house Burrows Harry, shoe maker house (Alfred Shawyer, proprietor) Hancock Richd. Donne, Blake's house Conybeare Henry, blacksmith Pratt Robert, baker Montgomery Rev. Ferguson John Cross J sph. wheelwright & blacksmit:l Skinner J as.farmr.& oversr.Northway M.A. The Rectory Greenway William, farmer & miller Taylor John A. shopkeeper, Post off Prior Richard Chandler Alexander (water), Manor farm Thomas James, farmer M.D., J.P. Halse house Hancock Richard Donne, farmer Thorne George, thatcher Smith The Misses, Mount house Hunt WaIter, butcher Trott John, farmer, Northway Taylor John, The Cottage Hutchings James, carpenter Venn Charles, stone mason Warren Mrs. Rock house Loney William, baker • • HIGH a.nd LOW or NETHER HAM: form a Hprewarcl Eyre Wake M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford~ parish, 3~ miles north from Langport station on the who is also rector of and resides at Pitney. The charities,. Durston and Yeovil branch of the Great Western railway which are of small yearly value, include an endowment, and 5 west from Somerton, in the Eastern division of the left by Adrian Sohael to found a school. Roger Marriott·· county, Whitley hundred, Somerton and Langport petty Dodington esg. of Horsington House, who is lord of the sBssiona! division, Langport union and county court dis­ manor of High Ham; Mrs. Williamson, who is lady of' trict, rural deanery of Ilchester, archdeaconry of Well!' the manor of Nether Ham; Mrs. S. Reynolds, Ebenezer and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. An­ Barnard esq. and Josiah Dobin esg. are the chief land­ drew, originally erected by John Selwyn, abbot of owners. The soil is stone brash, clay; and the subsoil is-, Glastonbury in 1476, is a building of stone in the Per· blue and white lias. The chief crops are wheat, beans, pendicUllar s,tyle, eonta,ining a chancel, nave, aisles, south barley and apples. There are orchards in this parish· porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, producing large quantities of cider. The area is 4,869.; cOhtaining a clook placed in 1894 and 5 bells: the tower acres; rateable value, £6,400; the populat,ion in 1901 was. is much older tha'n tp.e rest of the building: there are 898, inc~ucling 4 officers and 50 inmates of Langport Union, several gurgoyles round the church and tower, and on House. the latter is a sma1l statue of the Virgin and Child in By Local Government Board Order 17,645, March 25, good preservation: the rood screen, remarkable for its 18-86, parts of King's Sedgmoor were amalgamated with beauty, wa,s brought from Glastonbury abbey: there is a High Ham from Long Sutton and Huish Episcopi' brass to John Dyer, who built the chancel, dated 1499: parishes. the stained east window is a memorial to John Dobin, of Nether Ham is a tithing of Champton hundred, Wilton . Aller, and there are others to Francis Gillett, late church­ Free Manors. The villages of Henley, I! miles north, warden, and his son: the font is Norman and the pulpit Picks Hill, 2 south, Bere, I~ north-west, and Stout, r­ is of stone: the church was restored in 1870 and affords south-eas,t, are in this parish. 350 sittings. The register dates from the year 1569, and Parish Clerk, Adolphus Gooding. contains many curious notes in Latin. There is also preserved here a description of the parish in Latin, made Post Office, High Hiam.-Robert Lavis, sub-postmaster:. by Adrian Schael, who was rector of the parish in the Letters through Langport R.S.O. Delivery commences; reoign of Elizabeth. The living is a rectory, net yearly at 8 a.m. & box closes at 5.25 p.m.; sundays, 8 a.m.. value £4°0, including 130 acres of glebe, with residence, Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Langport, in the gift of Worcester College, Oxford, and held since 3~ miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph" 1875 by the Rev. Charles Danvers Crossman M.A. of office. Wall Letter Box, Nether Ham, cleared at ()" that college. There is a Bible Christian chapel at High p.m. week days only Ram, and Congrega,tional chapels at Low Ham and Hen­ Police Station, Henry Watts, constable ley. The old school-house is now used as a parish vestry; The Lungport Union House is a bexagonal building of­ on the wall is an inscription, dated 1598. At Nether white lias, erected at a cost of £3,500, & available for Ham is a chapel dating from about 1650, standing on a 300 inmates; Rev. Joseph Stubbs M.A. chaplain; John. site of a much more ancient struoture; it contain>: Morgan F.R.C.'S.Eng. medical officer; James p. John­ effigies of Sir Edward Hext and his wife, knighted at stone L.R.C.P.&S.Edin. deputy medical officer; Whitehall, 12 May, 16°4; and also a monument to Lord Richard Cavendish, master; Mrs. Cavendish, matron Stawell, with a Latin inscription: there are 120 sittings. Church of England School (mixed), built in 1865, for 150, The living is a donative, net yearly value £50, in the children; average wttendance, 102; Charles Mathams,-, gift of Mrs. Wj1liamson, and held since 1899 by the Rev. master

HIGH HAM. Gould Mary (Mrs.), baker Sherrin George, butcher &- farmer Crossman Rev. Charles Danvers M.A. Groves Theodore, mason Small Waiter, farmer, Henley Rectory Groves Theophilus. farmer Spearing Simon (Mrs.), miller (wtr)' Denner J ames Hodge William, dairyman, Henley Tapscott Alfred, farmer, Henley Dobin Charles KeeviI Charles, farmer & thrashing Tapscott Edward, farmer, Henley Dobin Josiah, Southend house machine proprietor, Manor farm Tapscott Rachel (Mrs.), shpkpr.Henly Harwood Miss Lavis Frederick & Sons, carpenters & Thyer Edwin, farmer Kelway James, Wearne wyche wheelwrights Thyer Robert, farmer & drillman Lavis George Lavis Albert, carpenter Travis Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Henley PhilIips Nathaniel Lavis Robert, grocer & wheelwright, Vigar Henry, farmer, Henley Reynolds Mrs Post office Woodman Charles, farmer, Henley Lawrence WilIiam, farmer, Beer COMMERCIAL. Lloyd Harold & Jas. farmers, Henley LOW H.!.~. Austin Mary Jane (Mrs.), dairy, Lloyd Frederick, farmer, Henley Henley Martin Rosa Florence (Miss), grocer Bryant Winfred Barnard Ebenezer, farmer & land­ & draper Horsey William, Low Ham farm owner, Longstreet farm Mead Ro bert Uttermare, miller COUMERCIAL. Biddlecombe Maria (Mrs.), farmer, (wind) & farmer Henley Oram Charles, farmer, RedfieId Gibson Robert, dairyman Bird John Russell, baker & grocer Perren John, carpenter & wheelwrght Hill Francis John, farmer Crossman John, mason Perren Vile, farmer, Beer Hoare Sophie (Mrs.), laundry,Pict's hI Dinham Wm. farmer, Hillside farm Petty Joseph, shopkeeper, Henley Horsey In. Chard,farmr.Low Ham fro Emery Alfred, grocer, Decoy farm Pippen John, farmer, Beer Horsey Wm. jun.farmr.NewManor fm Fido Thomas, farmer ,Priddle WaIter John, shoe maker Hurd Charles, farmer Gooding Adolphus, King's Head P.H. Reynolds William, farmer Jordan John, evangelist & shoe maker Sherrin Adam Vile, farmer, Henley Locock Charles, carpenter Gould Edwd. blacksmith & beer retlr 'Sherrin Alfred, farmer Salway George, haulier, Pict's hill SOMERSET 18