DIRECTORY.1 ... SOMERSET. CRICKET ST. THOMAS • 241. Symons Reginald Hyatt, manager to Stuckey's Banking Volunteer Fire Brigade (Samuel Old, captain), Engine Oo. (branch of Parr's Bank Limited), treasurer to the house, Council yard rrban District Council, to joint burial committee of Webber & Sibbald, physicians & surgeons, Market st Crewkerne & West Crewkerne & to Crewkerne Hospi- Webber Dorcas (Miss), private school for girls, Her- tal & Merriott & Wayford Parish Councils & agent to mitage street the Norwich Union Fire, .Accident & Life Insurance Webber William Woolmington L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S. Co. Market street Eng. (firm, Webber & Sibbald), physician & surgeon, 'i'aylor .Annie (Miss), fancy repository, Market street medical officer of health to the Urban District Couneil & 'l'aylor Arthur, plasterer, Station road medical officer & public vaccinator, Nos. I & 2 Crew- Taylor Charles Bartlett, farmer, Higher Several kerne districts, Chard union, Market street. T N I7 Territorial Force Battalion (5th) Prince Albert's I West Somerset & Devon Manufa-cturing Co. Limited. (Somersetshire Light Infantry) (F Co. Capt. F. D. .Abbey stTeet & North street Urwick; Sergt. Frank Boyd Rayson, drill instructor), Wheadon Edward, plumber, South street Armoury, Market street Wheatley James, printer, South st. & auctnr. Market. sq Thorbum Edwin John M.R.O.V.S. veterinary surgeon, Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited (branch) (Percy Church street G. Parkins, manager), open daily from 10 a.m. to 3 Tompsett, Edmonds .& Co. general merchants, Market p.m. ; sats. till I p.m.; market days Io a.m. to 4 p.m.; square & South street Market square; draw on London & Westminster Bank Tuck Charles, cycle dealer, Church street Limited, London E C Tucker Edwin, fishmonger, South street World's Stores Limited (The), provision dlrs. Market st WEST CREWKERNE is a parish, formed in 1894 Clapton, 3 rr.iles south-by-west of Crewkerne; Coombe, by Local Government Board Order No. 30,63I, out of 2! miles south-west; Easthams, I mile east; Furland, the rural part of Crewkerne, and almost surrounds the r! miles north-by-west; and Woolminstone, 2 south­ town; it is in the Southern division of the county, west, are tithings in the parish. hundred, petty sessional division and county court dis- Hewish is r! miles south-by-west of Crewkerne, and trict of Crewkerne, union of Chard. The highway has a mission church, erected in I868, in connection leading from Crewkerne to Chard (commencing at with St. Bartholomew's, Crewkerne, and seating 94 Roundham, in this parish) is commonly called the back- pPrsons bone of the two channels, and is the division of the Roundham is a hamlet in this parish, and I mile west watershed of the counties, the water on the south side of Crewkerne. of the road feeding the river .Axe, on the north the Post & T. Office, Clapton. John Churchill, sub-post- river Parrett, and flowing respectively to the English master. Letters arrive from Crewkerne at 7.2s a.m. and Bristol channels. St. Reine's Hill, on the farm of & 3.30 p.m. ; dispatched I0.5 a.m. & s.4o p.m. ; Edward Penny esq. at Coombe, near here, is the farthPst neither arrival nor dispatch on sundays. Crewkerne, point in this direction at which the chalk is obtainable. 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order office. Earl Poulett, Lord Portman, Augustus H. Hussey esq. The office is open on sundays for telegraph business of Maincombe Hall and H. W. P. Hoskyns esq. of North from 8.30 to 10 a.m Perrott, are the chief hmdowners. The soil is sand, Wall Letter Boxes. Hewish, cleared at 7.30 a.m. & S·S5 with a subsoil of rock. The hills in the south and p.m. on week days only; Roundham, cleared at 9· IS south-west are chalk. The farms consist of arable and a.m. & 4.20 p.m.; sundays, 9.15 a.m pasture l!!nd. The parish contains 4,8o6 acres; rateable Public Elementary School, Clapton (mixed), erected value, £9,150; population in 19II, 759. in I878, for Iog children; Qverage attendance, 95; There is a school chapel, erected in 1868, in connection William Joseph Munden, master with St. Bartholomew's, Crewkerne, and seating IOO School controlled by a Committee of 9 members, formed persons. July, I903; F. E. Swabey, clerk; John Garrett, at- The following places are included in thia parish :- tendance officer WEST CREWKERNE. Clarke Henry, farmer, Clapton Rossiter Edward Harris, Blue Boy PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Copp Samuel, farmer, Woolminstone P.H. Clapton Gale Robert, farmer, Furland Spurdle Bros. blacksmiths, Clapton Groves Mrs. S. M. Clapton elite, Hardinp, 0has. blacksmth. Roundham Stagg .Albt. Edwd. frmr.Easthams gt Clap ton Hayward Richard & Sons Limited, Stone George Drew, farmer, Clapton Hussey .Augustus Henry J.P. Main- sail cloth, twine & web manufac­ Stoodley John W. farmer, Folly farm combe hall turers, Tail mill Stoodley Victor, frmr.Blackmore frm Lockyer WilHam, Clapton Hooper Saml.frmr.Furringdon's cross Taylor William E. builder, Portway Munden James WithPrs, Britport ho Horsey J chn Chard, farmer, Lower Terrell George R. farmer, Highe N Ol'rie Isaac, Tail Mill house Easthams Ea.sthams .Spottiswoode Hugh, Clapton elite, Lockyer Robert & Son, millers (water Tucker Charles, farmer, Henley Clap ton & gas), Clapton Wyatt Richard, farmer, Ford's croft "Vincent Mrs. Merriottsford Maiden Beech Brick, Pipe & Tile Wrigley Frank Thomas, Clapton crt WorkS! (R. M. P. Parsons, of Mister- HE WISH. ton, agent) Lawrence Robert, farmer, Manor frlh COMMERCIAL. Miller Sidney, saddler Manley Jas. miller (water) & farmPr Broughton James Francis, farmer, Mitchell William Clark, thrashing Miller .Albert Edward, farmer Lower Severalls machine proprietol" Prince Charles, farmer .Caddy Edwin, baker, Clapton Penny Edward, farmer, Coombe frm Scott .Amos, farmer . Churchill .Alfd. beer retlr. Roundham I Poole George, farmer, Lodge farm Wetherall Henry J oseph, farmer .CRICKET MALHER:BIE ia a parish and village, of Major T. M. S. Pitt, and held since 1908 by the Rev. 2 ·miles south from Ilminster and 3 north-by-east from Charles Edward Lucette B . .A. of London University, Chard, in the Southern division of the countv,• hundred who is also viear of Knowle St. Giles and head master ,of A.bdick and Bullstone, Ilminster petty sessional division, of Chard Grammar School, residing at the School anion and county court district of Chard, rural deanery house, Chard. Cricket Court, a mansion of stone, is of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of prettily situated, and surrounded by well-timbered Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary Magdalene, grounds; it is the property of Major Thvmas Morton Tebuilt in 1855 at a cost of about £4,500, is a small Stanhope Pitt, who is lord of the manor and ehief land­ edifice of stone in the Pointed style, consisting of owner. The soil is flint and gravel; subsoil, clay. The chancel, nave, aisles, north transept, south porch and a crops are wheat, barley and oats, and there is some small embattled western tower, with spire, containing 5 pasture. The area is 46I acres; rateable value, £536; bells: on the north side of the chancel is a brass tablet population in I9II, 38. to the Pitt .family, of Cricket Court, and there are Sexton Eli Miller several stained windows : in the chancel is an altar tomb ' · to Stephen Pitt esq. and in the transept are two hand- Letters through Ilminster arrive at 7.30 a.m. Wall some marble tablets to members of the same family: Lebter Box cleared S·So p.m. week days only. Ilmin- the stone font has a richly-carved canopy: there are ster, 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order & tele- -sittings for 6o persons. The register dates from the graph office year 1732. The living is a rectory, net yearly value The children of this place attend the school at Knowle St. £ss. with residence and 25 acres of glebe, in the gift Giles Lamprey Mrs. The RPctory 1 Menzies Mrs. Cricket court I Norton Wm. Jn. farmer, Cricket frm .CRICKET ST. THOMAS is a parish and village, 3! ern railway, and s! west from Orewkerne, in the Southern miles east from Chard terminal stations on branches of division of the county, hundred of South PethPrton, Il­ the Great Western railway and London and South West- minster petty sessional division, union and county court SOMERSET 16