SOM.ERSETSHIRE. (KELLY's Added in Rr76; and in R877 the Churchyard Was Enlarged: Everett Esq

376 tJBLEY. SOM.ERSETSHIRE. (KELLY'S added in rR76; and in r877 the churchyard was enlarged: Everett esq. and the Rev. Francis Arnold are the chief land­ there are sittings for 142 persons. The register dates from owners. The soil is variops; subsoil, limestone. The chief the year r67r. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent- crops are oats and most of the land is in pasture. The charge £r68, yearly value £370, including 89! acres of acreage is r,Boo; rateable value, £2,535; the population in glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held since r874 by r88r was 287. the Rev. Albert Ennor. The rectory house, adjoining the Parish Clerk and Sexton, John Durbin. church, is a substantial building, and was restored in r878. PosT OFFICE.-Samuel Horlor, receiver. Letters through Here is a Wesleyan chapel. Hazel Manor is the residence of Bristol, arrive at 9 a.m. ; dispatched at 4 p.m. ; sundays, Charles Hill esq. J.P. and Colonel Edward Stock Hill C.B., 3_40 p.m. Blagdon is the nearest money order office & M.P. The charities, including the rent of the poor's land, a East Harptree is the nearest telegraph office. Postal field of 2 acres, and the interest on about £37, produce d d about £6 yearly, which is distributed in bread and money. orders are issue here, but not pai A fair is held on the 4th September yearly for cattle. Lead National School (mixed), built in r876, for 52 children; ore is found here; and on the Mendip Hills in this parish are average attendance, 42 ; Miss Rose Mary Ridout, mistress Roman remains. Benjarnin Edward Somers esq. M. A., J.P. CARRIER.-James Panes, to 'Hope & Anchor,' Bristol, mon. of Mendip Lodge, Churchill, is lord of the manor ; Charles thurs. & sat.; leaves Ubley at 7.30 a. m. & Bristolfor Ubley Hill esq. J.P. Col. Edward Stock Hillc.B., M.P. John Gifford at 4.30 p.m Batten Charles I:Ford Gabriel, farmer, Ubley park 1 Panes Charles, hay dealer Dadswell Miss, Sussex cottage Franks Charles, carpenter & builder Panes James, carrier Ennor Rev. Albert, Rectory 1 Franks Charles (Mrs.), shopkeeper Payne Jaue (Mrs.), dairy fa..,nrnner, Wood- Harrison Mrs. Somerset house GallopChas.farmer,assistant overseer&c house farm Hill Charles J.P. Hazel manor Gallop Silvester, dairy farmer PayneFrank, carrier, Woodhouse farm Hill Col. Edward Stock C.B., M. P. Hazel Gallop William, grocer & draper Pearce Joseph,dairy farmer&landowner, manor; & Carlton club, London s w GeorgeWilliam,farmer &miller (water) Rookery farm Wood William M.D. The Willoughbys Horlor Samuel, sub-postmaster Pyatt William, dairy farmer COMMERCIAL. Humphries John, blacksmith Quick Joseph, carpenter, Coffee tavern "Baber Charles, fanner Keedwell Charles, dairy farmer Sheppard John, dairy farmer .Hest Geo. dairy farmer, Cle\'e Hill farm Keedwell Fras.dairy frmr.Henmarsh fm Simmons William, dairy farmer Caple Geo. Parker, farmer & landowner King James, dairy farmer ThieryWm.dairy farmer,StirrupCupfm Cavill George, farmer, Manor house Oakes William, Bell inn,accommodation Webb Harriet (Mrs.), dairy farmer Durbin John, stone mason for travellers, good beer, cider & stout Young John, dairy farmer UPHILL is a village and parish, situated at the mouth chapel : a burial ground inclosed by a stone wall, surrounds ·'Of the Axe on the Bristol channel, with a station called the church. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. The Weston-super- Bleadon and Uphill on the Great Western railway, 2 miles Mare Sanatorium is in this parish. Uphill Castle, the seat south from Weston-super-Mare, and 139 from London, in of Mrs. Knyfton, lady of the manor, is a castellated resi· the Wells division of the county, Winterstoke hundred, denee, with a tower and turreted porch, and stands in park· Axbridge petty sessional divison and union, W eston-super- like grounds, commanding a fine view of the town of Weston­ Mare county court district, Locking di&trict of Axbridge super-Mare, the surrounding hills and the bay,and approached rural deanery, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath from the Weston road by an entrance lodge. Uphill Grange, and Wells. The church of St. Nicholas, erected in 1843, is the seat of Capt. Charles Edward Whitting J.P. is situated a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of on an eminence, and enjoys a fine view of Brent Knoll and chancel,nave, aisles and an embattled western tower, contain- the intervening country. Sandcroft is a commodious resi­ ing one bell : there are sittings for 300 persons. The register dence, built and occupied by Captain Charles Whitting. dates from 1704. 'I he living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge Totterdown, the seat of Edward M organ Whitting esq. is [227, net yearly value £242, including 25 acres of glebe, situated on an eminence, affording a splendid view of the with residence, in the gitt of T. Bennett esq. and held since town of Weston-super-Mare and the neighbouring country. 1862 by the Rev. Stephen Bennett M.A. of Oriel College, Mrs. Knyfton, who is lady of the manor, Capt. C. Whitting, Oxford. The old church, which stands on the summit of a Capt. Charles Edward Whitting esq. J.P. and Edward Mar­ bill near the village, probably occupies the site of the Roman gan Whitting esq. are the chief landowners. The soil is A:xium, and is an edifice of stone, in the Norman and later loam and clay. The land is chiefly in pasture. The area is styles, consistingof chancel, nave, north porch and a central r,o77 acres of land; rateable value, £5,481 ; the population tower, containing a mu~ical peal of 5 bells: the porch, owing in 188r was 645. to the subsidence of the sides, has assumed a horse-shoe Parish Clerk, Robert Counsell. -shape : there is a priests' doorway on the south side of the PosT 0FFICE.-Mrs. Mary Minifie, receiver. Letters from chancel, and Norman doorways on each side of the nave : Weston-super-Mare, arrive at 4 a. m. ; delivered at 7 a.m.; the tower is strongly buttressed, and has an octagonal turret second delivery, 3·45 p.m. ; dispatched at 3·45 & 9.50 p.m. at the north-east angle, with a spired crocketed capping and W eston-super-Mare is the nearest money order & telegraph -finial: in the nave are slabs inscribed to Samuel Baker, office. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid rector of Uphill, d. Jan. 29, 1706, and to Samuel Baker, Elementary Schools (mixed), erected in 1873, by the late T. rector, d. December, 1725: the tower and the chancel were T. Knyfton esq. at a cost of about £1,3oo,for 100 children; thoroughly repaired at the sole expense of the late 'f. T. John James Francis, master Knyfton esq. J.P., D.L. and are now used as a mortuary Railway Station, Robert Payne, station master Bennett Rev. Stephen M. A. Rectory Burdge Edmund, farmer King Frederick, dairyman Glanvile Rev. William Shartman M.A. Counsell Alfred, farmer Luff Edward, farmer, Manor farm [curate], The Gables Counsell Robert, fanner & parish clerk Manley Ann (Mrs.), Dolphin inn Xnyfton Mrs. The Castle Counsell Thomas, dairyman & farmer Masters George, tailor Whitting Capt. Charles, Sandcroft Evans James, farmer Minifie & Sons, wheelwrights & smiths Whitting Capt. Charles Edward J.P. Fear Henry, shopkeeper Minifie Mary Jane (Mrs.), laundress Uphill grange Fear William, market gardener Minifie William, wheelwright & smith Whitting Edward Morgan, Totterdown Gould James, coal merchant & farmer Pople William, ferryman COMMERClAL. HammondEdwardSamuel,grocer&drapr Rogers Thomas Lewis, teacher of music, Boley Elizabeth (Mrs.), dairyman Hart Peter, Ship inn Westfield house Boley William, coffee house Herniman Henry Waterman, butcher Williams Jane (l\Irs.), laundress Brown Henry, farmer Hucker William, farmer Young Abel, farmer

UPTON is a parish and village, situated on the river containing I bell: the stained east window is a memorial to Haddeo, a tributary of the Exe, 7 miles west from Wivelis· Mr. and Mrs. lllake: there aresittingsfor x8o persons. The corn be. 7 north-east from Bampton, 5 east-north-east from register dates from the year r6oo. The living is a vicarage, Dulverton and 4 north of Morebath station, on the Devon yearly value £73, without residence or land, in the gift of and Somerset branch of the Great Western railway, in the the Rev. N. H. C. Ruddock M.A., J.P. and held since 1879 Western division of the county, hundred of Williton, petty by the Rev. lsaac John Cowden·Cole B.A. Lampeter. Here sessional division and union of Dulverton, county court dis- is a Bible Christian chapel, rebuilt in 1878. Bittiscombe trict of 'fiverton, Wiveliscombe district of the rural deanery I Manor is the residence of Lieut.-Col. Sir John Davie Fergu­ of Dunster, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath son-Davie bart. D.L., J.P. The Earl of Carnarvon P.c., D.c.L. and Well~. There is a very picturesque road here, called who is lord of the manor, and Lieut.-Col. Sir John llavie Lady Harriet Acland's drive. The old church of St. James, I Ferguson-Davie hart. D.L., J.P. and the Rev. Noblett Henry owing to its dilapidated state, has been abandoned, the Cranmer Ruddock M.A., J.P. of Bridgwater, are the chief churchyard being used as a burial ground: the new church, landowners. The soil is clayey; the subsoil is shillet rock erected in 1867, in the hamlet of RAINSBURY, is a building of and clay. The crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave The area is 3,779 acres; rateable value, £2,735; the :popu­ of 3 bays, north porch, and a turret over the chancel arch Jation in 1881 was 278.