412 NETHER . . (KELLY"S effective lines: were written. Court House, the resi­ barley, green crops and roots. The area is 1,103 acres; dence of Fred Moor·e esq. incorporates portions of a rateable value, £2,808 ; the population in I'9Il was 570 monastery, once existing on this site; the ruins of the civil, 577 ecclesiastical (which comprises parts of Nether cloisters are extant, and the remains of a moat may Stowey and civil parishes). · still be tmced. In this· parish is Castle hill, near By Local Government Board Order 10,612, June 3. which are the ruins of a fortress, once the residence . r88o, detached parts of were added to of James (Touchet), qth Baron .A.udley, who was one Spaxton; and by Order I8,Ioi, March 25, I886, Stowey of the leaders of the Cornish insurrection in 1497; Rocks was •tTansferred from to Nether in the encounter that took place ot Blackheath, June Stowey for civil purposes. 24, 1497, between the king'·s forces and the insurgents, Sexton, .A.rthur John Redding. Lord .A.udley was taken prisoner and shortly afterwards Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-.A.rthur Wheddon, suo-post­ executed on Tower hill. .A. .part of the population, master. LetteTS arrive from known in this locality as "broom squires," is employed County Station, Job Hoddinott, constable in the manufacture of heath brooms, from the heather gathered on the neighbouring hills. Edward .A.rthur Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1813, for Vesey Stanley esq. and Lord St . .A.udries, who is lord 140 children ; McColl Brooks, master of the manor, are chief landowners. The· soil is loamy, Carriers to BridgwatOO'.-F. Day & Son, daily, except and the· subsoil marI. The chief crops are wheat, thurs. from Rose & Crown hotel

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Dibble John, beer retailer Long Maud (Miss), teacher of music: .Archer Mrs. The Old House Foulston Thomas· E. customs & ex- Martin Thomas & Son, wheelwrights Carey Jabez (Congregational ·lay cise officer . tMoore Fred, farmer & gra.zier. pastor) Glover Henry Rawlings, Globe inn Swwey Court farm Dod .A.nthony, Castle Hill house Godwin George Moses, baker Moore John Marriott, carpenter Gwillim Misses, Hill cottage Gulliford :Arthur Edgar, motor & Payne Henry, dairy Harland Rev. Robert, Vicarage agricultural engineer; agent for all tPearce Robt.Edwa. frmr.Rubies frm Hill Mrs. A.inslie, Fir Tree cottage standard made cars; sole dist-rict Bedding .Arthur John, blacksmith Kitchin Col.Chas. Edwd. Oakford ho agent for Emerson model E. B. 30 Routley FTedk. ·wm. assistant oversr Moore Fred. Court house · h.p. tractor. Telegrams, " Gul- Routley Henry, grocer Raymond Waiter, West court , liford, Garage, Nether Stowey" Seymour John, farmer, Marlpits Robinson Mrs. Qnantock villa Gulliford Edward, grocer Stacey Brothers, builders Trevor Misses Hill Wm. Clutson, plumber & painter Tal bot Brothers, plumbers 1 Weston Major C. H. B. Upcot 1 Hobbs Henry James, fruit merchant 1 Tarr Henry, butcher Winterbotham Misses, Springfield Hobbs George,posting & livery stables Toms John, boot repairer COMMERCIAL. Hnghes Thomas George, cabinet ma Trevor James & Son, solicitors Marked thus t fllrm 150 acres oT ov~r. I tHuxt-abie Jas. faTmer, Stowey farm 'l'revor Edward (firm, James Trevor .A.ish James, baker _ I Knight William, fruit merchant & Son), solicitor, & clerk to the Bartlett William, butcher ~ Labour Exchange (agency) (Frederick' justices of the peace for the Bridg- Bryant Edith Mary (Mrs.), grocer William Routley, agent) water petty sessional division, &; Chidgey James, boot repairer Limmer Waiter Barton, draper steward to the charities Culverwell Thomas, farmer London County Westminster & PaTr's Wa.rren Thomas, George hotel Davey Charles, shopkeeper Bank Limited (open alternate fri. Weymouth Jas. saddler & harness ma Day Frederick, Rose & Crown hotel from I! a.m. to 3 p.m.); draw on 1·Woodward William. shoe maker Dibble Emily (MTs.), shopkeeper head office, 41 Lothbt1ry E C 2 IWyatt Waiter, fruit merchant

OVER STOWEY is a parish and village near the p1'esented by the Rev.· Edward Leighton Elwes M . .A. , 9 miles west fTom Bridgwater station on vicar here 1874-87, and there is a memorial cross to the main line of the Great Western railway, 9 from Bridg­ Lord : the cemetery is under hhe control of water terminal station of a branch from Edington of the the Pe.rish Council. .A. reading and news room was Somerset and Dorset railway, in the 'Bridgwater division opened in October, 1896. There are charities of £,15 of the county, western division of Cannington hundred, rs. rrd. yearly value. Sandstone and limestone are Bridgwater petty sessional division, Bridgwater union found here. Quantock Lod'ge, the seat of Edward and county court district, rural deanery of Quantoxhead, .Arthur Vesey Stanley esq. is a mansion of stone in the archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. Elizabethan style, erected by ·the late Lord Taunton The church of St. Peter and St. Paul is an ancient from stone raised on the estat~, and is situated on an building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting eminence iu well-wooded grounds, affording delightful of chancel, lengthened 20 feet in 1902, nave of three views over the Quantock and other hills. The Cottage bays, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western is the residence of the Hon. Mrs. Stanley. E. A.. V. tower containing 5 bells : there are several stained Stanley esq. is lord of the manor and the chief land­ windows, including two erected in I9o2. to the late H. owner. Lord St. Audries is also a landowner. The T. Stanley (killed in action at Hekpoort), to whom also soil is red clay, and the subsoil stone. The chief a· bronze t,ablet was· placed on the south wall of the erops are wheat and barley. The acreage is 3,696; chancel by the officers of the 7th company Imperial assessable value, £ r,8oo; the population in I9II was Yeomanry West Somerset Re.~riment: there are memorial 36o civil, 373 ecclesiastical (which includes part of windows to Henry (La.bouchere ), ut and only Baron 1 Nether Stowey ). Taunton, who died in I86g, and to Edward James By Local Government Board Order, I8,IOO, March 25. Stanley, d. 1907 : the east window is a memorial to r885, a detached part of Over Stowey, known as Stowey the Rev. William Beadon Buller B. A. vicar J82o-56: Rocks, was transferred to Nether ,Stowey for civil pur­ there is an ancient stone font. The register dates poses. from the year 1558. The list of vicars dates from the Sexton, Thomas George Grandfield. year If44· The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Letters from Bridgwater by foot messenger, via Nether £176, with residence and I acre of glebe, in the gift I' of Edward .Arthur Vesey Stanley esq. and held since St.owey, which is the nearest money order & telegraph · 1 office, about I! miles distant 1918 by the Rev. William' .ATthur Dickins. A. cemetery a 1 quarter of an acre in extei?-t, the gift of Mr. and the Ho~. 1 Public Elementary School (mixed & infants), enlarged Mrs. Stanley, was opened m Jnne, I882, and enlarged m I at the expense of the late E. J. Stanley esq. foJ' 120 1909 by E. .>\.. V. Stanley esq. : the lych gate was children ; Henry Wheddon, master

PRIVATE RESIDF.l'TS. I Brva.nt Edwin, farmer & carrier, Grandfield William, shoe maker • Copleston Edmund Lovell.Quantock lo Halsey cross H'Jowkes James, gardener to E . .A.. V. Dickins Rev. William Arthur (vicar), tCarter Chas. Pavier, frmr.Peppe1' hl Stanley esq Vica.rage Cem~tery (G. E. Lansdowne J .P. Over Stowey Reading & News Room Hurman Mrs. Lovell, Old Rectory chairman & clerk to the burial (Henry Wheddon, hon. sec) Lansdowns George Edmund J.P. , board) tSayer Francis John, farmer, Marsh Hockpit Barton , Copleston Edmund Lovell, agent to E. mill & White Horse farm Rich Mrs. Cross Farm house A. V. Stanley esq. Quant