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DIRECTORY.] . STON EASTON. 431 sion dating from about 1700, and originally erected Io.Io a. m. & 7·35 p.m.; dispatched at 10. ro a.m. & by a Mr. Roebuck, of Bath, in the shape of the ace of 7·35 p.m. ; sunday, 6.40 a.m. The nearest money clubs, this being due to the fact that the money with order & telegraph office is at Combe Down, 2 miles which it was built was won by the turning up of the distant, for delivery, but station is nearest ace of clubs at a game of cards. The principal land- for collection, which is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. owners are the trustees of the late Right Rev. Monsignor on week days only Charles Parfitt D.D. The soil is stone brash, and the Post Office, Midford. Albert John Andrews, sub-post- subsoil, freestone. The chief crops are wheat, barley master. Letters from Bath, arrive at 3 & 9·5 a.m. and oats, and about two-thirds pasture. The area is & 1.35 p.m. ; dispatched at 2.40 & 10 p.m. ; sunday, 858 acre& of land and Io of water; rateable value, 7 a.m. (callers only). The nearest money order & £2,888; population, Igii, 348. telegraph office is at Combe Down, 2 miles distant MIDFORD is a hamlet, I mile south-east, where is a Public Elementary School, erected in 1901, for 84 Wesleyan chapel. children; average attendance, 59; Miss Nella Holder, Post Office, South Stoke.-George Heal, sub-postmaster. mistress Letters from Bath, arrive by messenger at 6.40 & Midford Railway Station, Chas. F. Hazzard, station mast SOUTH STOKE. Dobson John, carpenter Menendez Sir Manuel Raymond LL.B. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hamlin Ann (Mrs.), laundress, Upper Midford house Balmain Mrs. Manor house buildings Perkes Rev. Richard Moon B.A., Davis Mrs. The Knoll Heal Frederick George, farmer L.L.M. (Church of ) Heal George, shopkeeper, Post office Reece Bezin King, Fairly Fallowfield Miss, The Priory Heal Joseph Edwin, house decorator Steger Ernest, Canal house Hignett Geofrey, Hodshill hall Jones Elsie May (Miss), farmer Williams-Hepworth Major Edwin O'Cahan Mrs. The Hall Owen Maria (Mrs.), laundress, Upper Wilson Gresham, Midford Castle Owen James, Kapunda Castle buildings COMMERCIAL. Pitt Waiter, South Stoke house Rose Frederick George, beer retailer Andrews Albert John, shopkeeper & Pudsey Edgar, Le Ch~let Waters Christopher, farmer, Pack post office Samler Rev. William Surman Hadley Horse farm Chancellor William J. farmer M.A. Vicarage Crees Fredk. J. Hope & Anchor P.H Sidney Edgar L. Hillcrest MIDFORD. Garrett Henry Newson, fuller's earth COMMERCIAL. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. works, Midford works Clifford W. & E. builders Bullied G. Lawrence, Cleeve house Harnlen William, haulier Chfford William, nurseryman Edgell Mrs. Avonhill Townsend John, market gardener

STOKE TRISTER is a parish, 2 miles east from Win- north-east from station. William Robert canton station on the Somerset and Junction rail- Phelips esq. of House, is lord of the manor. way, in the Eastern division of the county, Norton Ferris The principal landowner is Thomas Henry Methuen hundred, Wincanton petty sessional division and union Bailward esq. of Horsington Manor. The soil is stony and county court district, rural deanery of Cary ( brash; subsoil, clay and sand. The land is wholly district), archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath used for dairy purposes. The area is x,659 acres; and Wells. The church of St. Andrew, erected in I84I assessable value, £2,193; the population in 1911 was on a site half a mile north-west of the old parish 347· church, is an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, Bayford is a hamlet, half a mile north-west, on the road consisting of chancel and nave, south porch and an em- from Wincanton to Mere. battled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 5 bells, including one presented in memory of Lieut. John HORWOOD, formerly a detached hamlet of Horsington Phelips R.N. ; they were rehung in 1 ss7 : there are parish, was, on March 25, 1886, by Local Government ~ittings for I8o persons. The register dates from the Board Order r8,995, amalgamated with this parish. Ai year 17sr. The living is a discharged rectory, annexed Physicwell House, in this hamlet, is a well 11 feet deep, to that of Cuoklington, joint net yearly value £ 322, containing water possessing medicinal properties, the including 97 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift taste of which is similar to that of salts. of William Robert Phelips esq. and held since 18g8 by By Order 16,58o, March 25, 1885, a part of the Rev. George Maule, of Durham University, who parish, near Sunny Hill, was added to . resides at . The mission room at Bayford, Letters through Wincanton, Somerset, arrive at 6.10 built in x881 by the Rev. James Phelips M.A. rector a.m. & 2.30 p.m. Wall Letter Boxes, Bayford, cleared r878-g8, and now rector of Hagley, Stourbridge, War- at 8.30 a.m. & 12.35 & 7.25 p.m.; sunday, 7.15 p.m.; cestershire, is a building of stone, seating 70 persons. Stoke Trister at 6.35 a. m. & 7 ·5 p.m. week days Wyndham's charity, with others, produces £5 IOS. only; & Horwood, 10.50 a.m. & 7.10 p.m. week days yearly, which sum is distributed in money to those only. Wincanton, 2 miles distant, is the nearest not othNwise in receipt of parish relief. Bayford money order & telegraph office Lodge, the property of John Bradney esq. of The Public Elementary School (mixed), erected, with resi- Rookery, Burton Bradstock, Bridport, Dorset, and now dence for mistress, in I874, for go children; average in the occupation of Col. John D. Manse! J.P. is a attendance, 28; Miss Gwendoline Hughes, mistress modern stone building, charmingly situated, I mile Station, Bayford, Benjamin Barber, constable Marked thus t do not require Stoke Bush Joseph, cowkeeper, Royal Oak tForshaw William Henry, farmer. Trister in postal address. Candy Herbt. Jn. farmer, Hook farm Horwood Wellhonse PRIVATE RESIDENTS. tContencin Miss Katherine, teacher tFoxwell Frederick Charles, cow- tAntell Edwin, Bayford of languages, farm keeper, Riding gate tFeltham John, Springfield Dabinett Jethro, shoe maker, Bayford tGalpin William, yeoman, Horwood K1mber Mrs. Higher Sycamore tDowding Edwin Hy. frmr. Snag frm tGartell James, farmer, Horwood tMansel Col. John Delalynde J.P. 1"Drayton Frederick, baker, Bayford GHeans WdaJlter, faWrmer, Buck mi~l Bayford lodge Drayton William, shopkpr. Bayford ansfor ames m. farmer, Hill fm tMoody Mrs. Bayford Dyke George, farmer, Mitchells tHarris Saml. Jn. farmer, Style way tRead George, Bayford hill tFeltham John, assessor & collector tHiscock Brothers, masons, Leigh tRead William, Bayford hill of taxes for Bratton, Charlton Mus- common & Riding gate tVale James Hutchinson, Bayford grove, Cucklington, Penselwood, tlsaacs John, horse dealer, Bayford tVincent Mrs. Bayford Stoke Trister & Wincanton, & Jackson John, farmer, Frith correspondent to managers of the Kirnber Brothers, fa1mers COMMERCIAL. & Buckhorn Moorse Harry, farmer, Manor farm Barnes William Charles, mason, clerk Weston Council schools & clerk to 1·Swain Sarah Ann (Mrs.), Unicorn to Parish Council & assist. overseer Wincanton old age pensions sub- inn, Bayford tBurfitt Mary Ann (Mrs.), Lodge committee, Springfield tVaux George, blacksmith, Bayford farm, Bayford tFoot Wm. farmer, Leigh common Watts John, farmer, Sycamore tFoot William, farmer, Riding gate tWilkins James, farmer, Ivy house STON EASTON is a parish and a pleasant and pictur- the Northern division of the county, hundred of Chewton, esque village, on the high road from to Wells and Olutton union, Temple Cloud county court district and Shepton Mallet, 3 miles north from Binegar station and 3 petty sessional division, rural deanery of Midsomer Nor­ north from Chilcompton station, on the Somerset and ton, arch deaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. Dorset railway and 2! south from Hallatrow station on The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice of stone in­ the line of the Great Western railway, I3 the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south from Bristol, I4 south-west from Bath, 8 north- aisles and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, east from Wells and 7 north from Shepton Mallet, in containing 5 bells: the nave is separated from the

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