4~2 SPARKFORD. SOMERSET. [KELLY'S Griffiths Rev. Trevor M. .!. Rectory Dampier Edwin, blacksmith People's Refreshment House Associa­ Harman Wm. D'Oyly, Sparkford hall Hatcher Job, butcher tion Limited, Sparkford inn (Wm. Hoare James Talbot, carpenter Brockliss, manager) COMMERCIAL. Isaac & Perry, general builders' mer­ Perry John George,farmer & colfector Anstey Edward & Thomas, farmers chants, coal, cake & corn merchants of rates & taxes Anstey Charles, miller (water) & agents to the Great Western Saunders Hy. T. B. farmr. Woodside Baker Frederick, insurance agent Railway Co Somerset Trading Company Limited, Brain Silas Hy. farmer, Brooklands Ivey James, carpenter importers of slates & foreign timbr Churchouse William, tailor Toop Harry, baker SP AXTON is a parish and village, under the Quantock wheat, barley, roots and pasturage. The acreage is hills, 6 miles west from Bridgwater station on the 3,646; assessable value, £3,935; the population in 19u Bristol and Exeter section of the Great Western railway, was 8o6 in the civil and 755 in the ecclesiastical parish and the Somerset and Dorset Joint railway, in the (which comprises parts of Spaxton, Enmore and Fid­ Bridgwater division of the oounty, western division of dingtOJ:i civil parishes). Cannington hundred, Bridgwater petty sessional division, By Local Government Board Order 7,765, Dec 29, union and county court district, rural deanery of Bridg­ 1878, a detached part of Spaxton known as North Street water, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and was added to Fiddington; by Order 7•749. Dec. 20, 1878, Wells. The church of St. Margaret is a building of stone, Quantock Farm, Park and Wood were amalgamated with in the Later English style, consisting of chancel, nave, Enmore; by Order I8,Ioo, Mar. 25, 1885, the foll()wing south aisle and an embattled western tower, with pin­ additions were made to Spaxton, Longthorns from Ais­ nacles, containing a clock and 5 bells : there is an altar holt, a detached part of Nether Stowey and Crossfield tomb to a knight and his lady; a memorial window to Farm from Goathurst, and under the provisions of the the Rev. James Galloway, a former rector, erected in "Divided Parishes .Act, I882" (45 and 46 Vict. c. sS), 1874 by his family, and another erected in 1898 to the Bush Farm from Charlinch. late George White esq. barrister-at-law, of London: in Four Fork'S, half a mile east, and Merridge, 2 miles 1897 a stained window was placed in the south chancel south-by-west, are hamlets of this parish. aisle, in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Parah Clerk and Sexton, Tom West. late Majesty Queen Victoria, and in 1912 two stained windows were inserted in the north and west sides of Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Spaxton. Mrs. Emma Mary the church by the Misses Galloway : there are sittings Chamberlain, sub-postmistress. Letters through for 400 persons. The register dates from the year 1553. Bridgwater arrive at 6.55 a.m. & at 5· IS p.m. ; dis­ The living is a rectory, net yearly value £4oo, with 36 patched at 9.25 a.m. & 7·5 p.m. ; no sunday delivery Wall Lettpr Boxes.-Spa"<:ton, cleared at 8.50 a.m. & acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Church Fund trustees, and held since 1910 by the Rev. Louis 6.5o p.m. week days only; Merridge, cleared 4 p.m. Busch M . .A. of Selwyn College, Cambridge. There is an week days only iron chapel of ease at MERRIDGE, a Congregational County Police Station, George Mapledoram, constable chapel, erected in 1839• with go sittings, and a W esleyan PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SOHOOLS. chapel. A community known as the .Agapemonites was established in 1 845 at Four Forks. Cooke's charity con- Spaxbon (mixed), erected in 186o, to hold 130 children; sists of six almshouses for poor men or women, who each average attendance, 78 ; Ernest C. Durston, master; receive 2s. weekly, with coals, light and clothing. The Miss .Alice Stevens & Mrs. Ellen Durston, assistant pumping station and tanks of the Bridgwater water teachers .t works are. at Ashford, near Cannington, in this parish. Merridge, for Aisholt & Spaxton (mixed), erected in The Poor's Land charity consists of the rents of two 1874, for 70 children; average attendance, 40; Mrs. farms situate at Merridge. Edward .Arthur Vesey Preston, mistress Stanley esq. of Quantock Lodge, Over Stowey, is lord Carriers to Bridgwater.-Edmund Palmer, 'Four Forks.' of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is wed. & sat. & Charles Hill, from Merridge, mon. wed. red clay and the subsoil stone. The chief crops are & ~at Brameld Clement Neville, Pightley ho Dyment William John, shopkeeper Porter Dan, assistant overseer for Busch Rev. Louis M ..A.(rector),Rectry Francis Mary Jane (Mrs.), Bell P .H Spaxton, Charlinch, Broomfield, Cardew Major Fras. Gordon, Bush ho Geon Herbert Wm. farmr. Bush farm Over Stowey, Fiddington,Enmore & Galloway Miss, Pightley cottage Gillard James, farmer, Halsey Cross .Aisholt Galloway Robert, Stevens farm (letters through Nether Stowey) Pm·ter John, farmer, Merridge Hazelton Philip, The West gate Greed Edwin Waiter, farmer, Tux- Routley Thomas George, mason Horsham Miss well farm · Sa.yer Dan, farmer, Barford Kol Ev£>rard Henri, Laurel cottage Harris Edwin Tom, farmer Singleton John, farmer, Goods farm Morris Misses, The East gate Harris James, jobbing gardener Stafford William, farmer, Ebsley Southwood Thomas, Longthorns (let- Herniman Edwin, butcher Stevens Frank & Albt.machine proprs ters through Cannington) Hill Charles, blacksmith, Merridge Stevens Francis J. Crown inn Waltham Misses Hill Harry, farmer, Lambridge Sutcliffe David, harness maker White William Thomas, Timbercombe Hill Isaac Stephen, baker Sutcliffe Gertrude (Miss) C.M.B. COMMERCIAL. Hill William, farmer, Waterpits midwife B~iley J.& Sons,millers (water),Splatt Hurford Chas. carpenter, Four Forks Tavender Maurice, farmr. Holmes fm Bailey Frank, blacksmith, Four Forks Hurley John, farmer, Stevens farm Thorne John, builder, Pig'htley Baker Edwin, farmer, Waterpits farm Judd Emily (Mrs.), grocer & draper Tucker James, farmer, Rowdons Baker George, beer retailr. Merridge Knight David, farmer,Cridlands farm Villis Edward, Thomas & Hy. fa1mers Baker William, farmer, Merridge Lo~ston Willia.m, mason & builder Waterman Brothers, farmers, Pight- Bond John, farmer, Postridge Norman Fred, farmer, Court farm ley & Winter's farms Bousie John, farmer, Splatt farm Palmer Edmund, Victoria .Arms P.H. Webber William, miller (water), Bryant Gabriel & Co. grocers, Four & carrier Currypool Forks Palmer William, baker West Thos. Jn. carpentr. Four Forks Burland Fredk. cowkeeper, Currypool Pocock Charles, farmer, Little Holwell West Tom Hancock,blcksmth.& sexton Goad Frederick,Lamb inn,Four Forks farm, Merridge Westlake Waiter Jas. farmer, Croi!IS· Court James, carpenter IPocock Harry, farmer, Merridge field (letters through Cannington) STANDERWICX is a village, 4 miles east-north-east under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act, 1B82," from Frome railway station, and on the road to Bath by Local Government Board Order 16,o87, divided for civil from Warminster. This parish, on March 25, 1885, was, purposes between Beckington, Berkeley and Frome. STANTON DREW is a parish, on the river Chew, is an edifice of stone chiefly in the Perpendicular 11tyle, consisting of the tithings of Stanton Drew, Stanton consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, Wick and Belluton, on the high road from Bristol to north porch and a tower containing a clock and 5 Wells, ti miles south-west from Pensford station on bells; the tower dates from the 13th century, and there the North Somerset branch of the Great Western rail- are remains of a good doorway of the same period: way, and about 7 south from Bristol, in the Northern the gallery, erected by Peter Eaton Coates esq. was division of the county, Keynsham hundred, petty r9moved about 1888: the curious old fonl:t is said to be sessional division of Temple Cloud, union of Clutton, Early Norman or Late Saxon: the monuments to the Temple Cloud county court district, rural deanery Foster and Lyde families in the north aisle or Strachey of Chew, archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of Bath chapel were thoroughly restored in 188g at the expense and Wells. On March 7th, 1902, Pensford, with a of Lord Strachie P.C.: at the east end of the ~hurch population of 302 at the 1901 census, was transferred is the mortuary chapel of the Coates family, which from Stanton Drew ecclesiastical parish and added to is kept in 'repair by the lord of the manor: the Publow ecclesiastical parish. The church of St. Mary communion plate dates from 1607: in 1889 the .