DIRECTORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. CRICKET ST. THOMAS. 221 Rymonds George, saddler, West street Walbridge George, shopkeeper, Bain street Taylor & Co. mineral water manufacturers, Gould's brook Warren Samuel Hearn, registrar of marriages, Chard union, Taylor Alice (Mrs.), dress maker, Hermitage street & house & general agent, Mount Pleasant Taylor Annie (Miss), fancy repository, see Quick & Taylor Webber & Meyrick~Jones, physicians & surgeons, Market st Taylor Charles Bartlett, farmer, Higher Several Webber Dorcas Anne (Miss), ladies' school, South street Taylor Frederick, plumber, Hermitage street Webber William Woolmington L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.c.s.Eng. Taylor George Frederick, mason, Church path (firm, Webber & Meyrick-Jones), physician & surgeon, Taylor James, Grapes inn, Church street medical officer of health to the urban district council & Taylor Thomas, King's Arms inn, Market place medical officer & public vaccinator, Nos. I & 2 Crewkerne Tilley John, grocer, Market square districts, Chard union, Market street Tompsett John, wholesale grocer,&agentforW. &A. Gilbey West Somerset & Devon Shirt Manufacturing Co. (John H. Limited, wine & spirit merchants, Market square Waters, proprietor), Abbey street Trask Elizabeth (Mrs.), fishmonger, South street Wheadon Edward, plumber, South street Trenchard William, butcher, Church street Wheatley James, printer & pub!isher of the "Somerset Tucker William, bill poster, Henhays County Mail" & "East Devon Mail " & "West of England Turner James, hair dresser, South street Express," South street, & auctioneer, East street Vialls George A.R.I.B.A. architect, Sunnyside, East street White Henry, cycle agent, Market square Voizey Kate (Miss), dress maker, North street White Henry, tinplate worker, Hermitage street Volunteer Battalion (2nd) Prince Albert's Somersetsbire Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited (branch) (George Light Infantry (G Co.) (Hon. Lieut.-Col. John Perry v.n. Parry, manager), open daily from 10 a.m. to 3 p. m. ; officer commanding Crewkerne detachment ; Capt. J. W. thursdays till I p.m. ; saturdays till 4 p.m. ; Market Gifford, commanding G Co. ; A. R. Hayward, Iieut. ; square; draw on London & Westminster Bank Limited, Sergt. Thomas W. Matthews, drill instructor), Armoury, London E c Gould's Barton Windsor Francis, carpenter, Hermitage Higher terrace Volunteer !<'ire Brigade (George Slade, captain), Engine Worner Robert, Royal Oak P.H. Hermitage street house, Council yard Yard Samuel, cabinet. maker, Abbey street WEST CREWKERN .E is a parish, formed out of There is a. school chapel, erected in I868, in connection Crewkerne in 1895, and almost surrounds it; it is in the with Sir Bartholomew's, Crewkerne, and seating IOO persons. Southern division of the county, hundred, petty sessional The following places are included in this parish :-CLAP­ division and county court district of Crewkerne, union of TON, 3 miles south~st of Crewkerne; CooliiBE, 2i miles Chard. The highway leading from Crewkerne to Chard south-west; EASTHAMS, I mile east; FuRLAND, 1§ miles (commencing at Roundham in this parish) is commonly north-by-west; and WOOLMINSTONE, 2 south-west, are called the backbone of the two channels, and is the division tithings in the parish. of the watershed of the counties, the water on the south RouNDHAH is a hamlet in this parish, and I mile west of side of the road feeding the river Axe, on the north the Crewkerne. river Parrett, and flowing respectively to the English and HEWISH, in this civil parish, is included in CongrdSbury St. Bristol channels. St. Reine's Hill, on the farm of William Anne's ecclesiastical parish, and will be found under the Penny esq. at Coombe, near here, is the farthest point in heading of Congresbury. this direction at which the chalk is obtainable. Lord PosT OFFICE, Clapton.-,John Churchill, sub-postmaster. Poulett, Lord Portman, Edward Tanner esq. and Augnstus Letters arrive from Crewkerne at 8.35 a.. m ; dispatched H. Hussey esq. are the chief landowners. The soil is sand, 4-25 p.m. ; neither arrival nor dispatch on sundays. with a subsoil of rock. The hills in the south and south­ Crewkerne, 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order & west are chalk. The farms consist of arable and pasture telegraph office land. The parish contains 4,773 acres; rateable value, Board School, Clapton (mixed), under theCrewkeme& Way­ ,£8,640; the population now (1897) about 700. ford School Board, erected in I878, for 190 children ; aver­ age attendance, 108; William Joseph M•mden, master Brown Miss, Merriottsford Gale George, farmer, Furland Penny William, farmer & landowner, Lockyer William, Clapton Harding William, blacksmith & wheel- Coombe farm l\Ienzies John, Tait Mill house wright, Roundham Pile Thomas, farmer, Woolminstone Meyrick-Jones Rev. Geo. M.A.Claptonct Hayward Richard & Sons Limited, sail Poole John Jas. & Geo. farmers, Henley Penny William, Coombe cloth, sail twine & web manufacturers, Prince Charles, farmer, Roundham COlllliiERCIAT.. Tail mill Rossiter Edward, Blue Boy P.n.Clapton Budden George, dairyman HooperSaml.farmer,Furringdon's cross SpurdleAnnie(Mrs.),blacksmith,Clapton Caddy Edwin, baker & shopkpr Clapton Horsey James Chard, farm bailiff toW. Stagg Arthur, farmer, Haselbury road Champion Richard, farm bailiff to W. B. Hebditch esq. J.P. Lower Severals Stone Stephen, farmer, Clapton B. Hebditch esq. J.P. Lower Severals Lockyer Robert, miller (water),Clapton Vincent James, builder of light traps, Chard Jarnes, farmer, Blackmore Maiden Beech Brick, Pipe, Tile & Pot- vans & wagons, Clapton Churchill Chas. beer retlr. Ruundham tery Works (R. M. P. Parsons, of Welchm:ln Martha Farmer (Mrs.), Collier John, farmer, Clapton Misterton, agent) farmer & miller (water), Higher Cranton Joel, dairyman, Combe farm Miller Sydney, saddler Easthams Cridge Alfred, butcher, Pye corner Mitchell Wm. Clark, macbinist&farmr Wyatt Richard, farmer, Ford's croft Dennett John, farmer, Whitehall farm Osborne Benj. farmer, Lower Easthams CRICKET MALHERBIE is a parish and village, The living is a perpetual curacy; gross yearly value £9o, 3! miles south from Ilminster and 3 north-by-east from with residence and 25 acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Chard, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Pitt, and held since 1888 by ~e Rev. J<'rederick William Abdick and Bullstone, Ilminster petty sessional division, Hotham M.A. of Queen's College, Oxford, who is also union and county court district of Chard, rural deanery of perpetual curate of Knowle St. Giles. Cricket Court, Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath a mansion of stone, and the residence of Mrs. Pitt, is and Wells. 'fhe church of St. Mary Magdalene, rebuilt in prettily situated and surrounded by well timbered gronnds. 1855 at a cost of about £4,500, is a small edifice of stone in Thomas Morton Stanhope Pitt is lord of the manor and the Pointed style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north chief landowner. The soil is flint and gravel; subsoil, clay.. transept, south porch and a small embattled western tower, The crops are wheat, barley and oats, and there is some with spire, containin.g 5 bells : on the north side of the pasture. The area is 428 acres; rateable value, £535; chancel is a brass tablet to the Pitt family, of Cricket Court, the population in 1891 was 46 . .and there are several stained windows : in the chancel is an Sexton, Henry Parsons. .altar tomb to Stephen Pitt esq. and in the transept are two Letters through Ilminster, arrive at 7.30 a.m. WALL handsome marble tablets to members of the same family : LETTER Box cleared 5.50 p.m. week days only. Ilminster, the stone font has a richly carved cmopy : there are sittings 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office for 6o persons. The register dates from the year 1732. The children of this place attend the school at Know leSt. Giles Hotham Rev.Frdk.Wm.M.A.[incumbnt] I Pitt Mrs. Cricket court 1 Norton Wm. John, farmer, Cricket frm CRICKET ST. THOMAS is a parish and village, 3i assigned to the Bridport family, and a western porch and miles east from Chard, terminal stat.ions on branches of the turret containing a clock and 3 bells : there are many 'Great Western railway and London and South Western handsome marble monuments and tablets to the Bridport railway, and si west from Crewkerne, in the Southern and Nelson families, several stained windows and sittings division of the county, hundred of South Petherton, for xoo persons. The register dates from the year 1564- llminster petty sessional division, union and county court The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Winsham district of Chard, rural deanery of Crewkeme, archdeaconry Aug. 26, 1879, joint net yearly income £254, including 6o ()f Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Vtscount Brid­ St. Thomas is a small building of stone in the Perpendicular port one turn, and the Bishop of Worcester two turns, and style, consisting of chancel, nave, small south transept held since 1879 by the ReY. Daniel Hall Spencer lii.A. of St. .