38 BAR WICK. SOMERSETSHIRE. [KELI.Y'S

Ffooks Mrs. Little Barwjck Field Henry, baker & grocer, Post Pavitt William Anstree, overseer Maddaford Miss, Stoford office, Stoford Pearse John J.<'dk. Streets, frmr.Stoford Maddaford Mrs. SLoford Forse Henry, sexton Purchase Robert, beer retailer, Stoford P.H. Philbrick His Honor Judge Frederick Gillard William, carpenter Rose SI. Walt. Royal• Oak Stoford Adolphus Q.C. Barwick house Hodges Frank, shopkeeper, Stoford Waiters Waiter, baker, Stoford Beer John, dairyman, Court, Stoford BATCOMBE is a village and parish, between the roads Manshire against Sin," was sometime rector here and died from to and , 3 miles east in 164r. Amon£1' the rectors of the parish was also the from Evercreech station on the and Dorset rail­ celebrated Richard Alleine, his successor, and one of the way, 3 north from Bruton station on the Great Western 2,ooo incumbents ejected from their livings in 1662 for non­ railway, 3 south from Cranmore station on the Witham and compliance with the Act of Uniformity. Here is a Wesleyan Wells branch of the same line, 9 south-west from Frome and chapel. Vi' estcombe House is the seat of Mrs. Ernst. The 7 south-east from Shepton Mallet, in the Frome division of manor of Batcombe belonged for centuries to the monastery the county, Whitestone hundred, Shepton Mallet petty of : at the dissolution of religious houses by sessional division and union, Frome county court district, Henry VIII. the rectorial manor with the advowson of th& rural deanery of Bruton, arrhdeaconry of Taunton and church was given to James Bisse and his heirs: in 1689 it diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary is a came into the hands of Humphrey Buckler ; in 1728 Rodney large and ancient building of stone, principaUy in the Per­ Bridges esq. purchased it; it afterwards became the pro­ pendicular style, and consisting of chancel, nave of four bays perty of the Duke of Chandos, and finally of the Hev. with clerestory, aisles, south porch, vestry and a massiYe Walter Collyns Baker M.A. (the present rector). l\Irs. western tower, with pierced parapet of great beauty, con­ Ernst, Mrs. Chard and A. C. Murton Neale esq. R. Baily­ taining a clock and 6 bells, a new tenor bell having been Neale esq. of , and the Rev. W. C. Baker M.A. wh() hung in 1887: the later portion of the building, which com­ is lord of the manor, are the chief landowners. The soil is prises the sonth aisle and porch, was erected by James Bis'3e a light loam ; the subsoil is chiefly stone. The whole parish in 1629; the exterior of the church is much enriched with is divided into small farms, principally dairy. The a..:reage carving : the nave has a piereed parapet, and on the west is 3,229; rateable value, £6,467; the population in 1891 face of the tower, within a canopied niche, is a figure of Our was 588. Saviour, crowned, with the globe under his feet, and on Westcombe and EASTCOMBE are hamlets in the parish each side of the niche are angels carrying thuribles, emblems of Batcombe ; ALHAM is partly in this parish and partly in of the Passion, and scrolls : in the chancel is a piscina, and the parishes of Evercreech and Cranmore. at the east end of the north aisle is a turret : the eastern gable of the nave retains a crucifix, and the gable of the SPARGROVE, formerly a parish is now a hamlet, 2 miles. chancel a floriated cross of the Early Decorated period : the south-west, in the parish of Batcembe. The o!d manor font was cleaned or restored in 1844: in the chancel are house, built by T. Moore in the re1gn of Charles I. is now a stained windows to the Rev. ThombS Coney, 50 years rector farmhouse. of the parish, and Elizabeth, his wife, and by the side of the PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office,. vestry door is a quaint brass to Philip Bisse D.D. rector of Holly Hill.-Henry George utbbons, sub-postmaster. this place from 1598 to 16r3, and archdeacon of Taunton: Letters arrive from Bath at 7.14 a.m. & 3·5 p.m. ; dis­ a large stone monument in the north aisle records the patched at 10.30 a.m. & 5·55 p.m.; sundays, 9·45 a. m. decease of members of the Bisse family ; the earliest of The nearest telegraph office is at , 2 mile!> dis­ these dates is 1593: in the vestry is an oak register chest, tant. WALL Box cleared at 10.15 a. m., noon & 5.40 p. m. ; made in 1683 : an ancient font, and fragments of arches and Sundays at 9.30 a. m. pillars found built into an old bridge at Spargrove, were Westcombe letters through Bath via Evercreech by foot. collected by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobhouse n.n. now of messenger, arrive 7·45 a.m. WALL LETTER Box cleared Wells, and placed in this church : there are sittings for "'f.OO at Io.so a.m. & 6.15 p.m.; rmnday, 10.5 a.m. Batcombe persons. The register dates from the year 1642. The is the nearest money order office & Evercreech the nearest living is a rectory, with the perpetual curacy of Upton telegraph office Noble annexed, joint net yearly value £83o, including 100 Parochial School (mixed), built in 1842 & enlarged in 18S8, acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held since for 120 children; average attendance, 85; the rector &. 1879 by the Rev. Waiter Collyns Baker M.A. Sidney Sussex churchwardens are trustees ; James J.<'ulford, master ; Collegt", Cambridge. Richard Bernard, author of a book on Miss Daisy Millin, pupil teacher; Miss E. Rawlins,. Witchcraft and " The Isle of :Man, or Legal Proceedings in infants' mistress · Batcombe. Gibbons William, farmer, Batcombe Sage Jesse, farmer, Portway farm Baily Mrs Bottom farm Seymour Alfred Tom, police constable,. Baker Rev. Waiter Collyns M • .A. Rectory Goddard Eli1.abethAnn (Mrs.), farmer, Police station Butler Samuel Eastcombe & Pnghs Bottom & Horse­ Shears Charles, boot maker May Mrs. Frank, Rockwells hill farms Shears Edgar Henry, cow keeper Phippen Charles, The Hall Gulliver Chas. farmer, Rockwells fann Sherring Charles, beer retlr. Holly hill Short John, Provis Harvey Jacob, beer ret. & road contrctr Steeds James, Three Horse Shoes P.H Stokes Sidney William, Hill house Hunt Henry, farmer, Eastcombe Steeds John, farmer, Middle Mill farm • James Charles, farmer, Boords farm Tanner Abel, blacksmith COMMERCIAL. J ames Lovell, farmer, Lodge farm Vining Hannah (Mrs.), farmer Alien & Son, engineers ; & at Ever­ James Thomas, farmer, Church fa.,.,rrmn W orman Eli, farmer creech, Bath Kent Thomas, farmer, Batcombe mill Batcombe Working Men's Club & Lester Charles, farmer, Thorn hill Westcombe. Reading Rooms (A. H. Vining, Maidment Mark, farmer, Seate house Allen Mrs. W estcombe cottage hon. sec) Noble 'l'heophilus, baker Candy Henry Davis Butler James, farmer, Lower farm Padfield George, farmer, Home farm Ernst Mrs. Westcombe house Davis Henry, coal dealer Parfitt Thomas, farmer, Spargrove Butler Jsph. Hy. farmer, Lower farm Fulford James, assistant overseer, Perry Frank Robert, corn miller Candy Albt. Chas. farmer, Manor farm schoolmaster, clerk to the parish (water), Spargrove mill Cock William, farmer, Cherry farm council & collector of poor rates Prince Tom, coal merchant Davis John, farmer, Manor farm Gibbons Albert, baker &, butcher Rex Louisa (Mrs.), dress maker Loxton William, farmer, Alham farm Gibbons Henry George, draper & Russell Wm. carpenter & wheelwright Steeds Henry, farmer, Upper farm grocer, Post office, Holly hill Sage Catherine (Mrs.), farmer, Bat­ Vining Arthur Henry, farmer Gibbons John, farmer, Honeycliff farm Cllmbe Vale farm

• BATH is a city, parliamentary and municipal and county Bath to Evercreech, 106! miles from London, 86! from Ban­ borough, and in conjunction with Wells a bishop's see, an bury, 87 from Basingstoke, I::a6j from Barnstaple, 103 from old established and frequented inland watering place, cele­ Birmingham, 5 from Box, 216! from Bradford (Yorkshire), brated for its hot springs, and a market and nnion town on 441 from Bridgwater, 240§ from Bridlington, nl from the navigable river Avon a.nd the Kennet and Avon canal, Bristol, 56 from Cheltenham, 177! from C,hester, 13 from with statiqns on the Great Western main line, the Midland Chippenham, 54! from Cirencester, n2! from Coventry, 94 rail way, and the Somerset and Dorset Extension railway,frmn from Orediton,,94t from Dawlish, 135 from Derby, 183 from •