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Little Brimley were also annexed to it and a detached lington by foot post are received at 8.50 a.m. & dis part of Milverton added. patched at 4.25 p.m. Greenham is the nearest tele... graph office, 2 miles distant Parish Olerk, John Milton. A School Board of 5 members was formed September 30,. IB74, for the united dist,riot of .&shhrittle &; Stawley Post &; M. O. 0., S. B. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office.- The children of this place attend the Board school at: John Charles Stone, sUb-postmaster. Letters from Wel- Appley, in the parish of Stawley Clark John Edward, Kyrle house Coles George, farmer, Pool farm Kerslake Henry, blacksmith Crichton WilIiam J .. Manley house Ooles WilIiam, farmer, Pitt farm Lamprey Jas.mason,& temperance htlL. Edwards Lady, The Mansion Edbrooke WilIiam, farmer, Oourt pI l'earce Elizabeth (Mrs.), diaryman, Edwards Sir John Henry Priestley Goddard Louisa (Mrs.), farmer, Great 'Chackeridge Churchill bart. The Mansion Tadbeer farm Rattenbury John, ,farmer, Hart's farw Quiclre Rev.Ohas.Penrose B.A.Rectory Goddard Thomas, farmer, Doble farm Tapp Albert, farmer, East Northoott Worsley Mrs. The Old vicarage Hill Edward, farmer, Hagley bridge Taylor Fred, dairyman, Normans Heard George, farmer, Westcott Vickery Edwin, carpenter &; farmer,. COMIIIETICB.L. Hawse John, farmer, Burrow farm DishweI1 farm Broom James, farmer, Waldross Hurford Robert, thatcher· Wensley Jas. dairyman, Shamwood Coles Alfred, farmer, Nort.hcott Hurford Samuel, thatcher Ze11y Susan (Mrs.), farmer, Normans; ASHCO TT (formerly .A.she:holt) is a village and parish, of the church. A stock fair is held annually on the 9th or on the road from Glastonhury to Bridgwater, with a sta- January. .A:shcott Hill is the residence of Robert Moss tion 2 miles n-orth (called .A.shcott and Meare), on the King esq. J.P., D.L. The Hon. H. Bull TempleI' Strang•. Somerset and Dorset railway, 3 mil81S south-west from ways, of Shapwick, formerly IPremier of South Australia" Glastonbury and 9 €oast from Brid-gwater, in the Bridg- 1868-70, is lord of the manor, chief landowner and lay water division of the county, hundred of Whitley, petty rector. The 'soil is clayey, and the subsoil stone. The sessional division, county court district and union of chief crops are wheat, beans, oats and barley. Area, Bridgwater, rural deanery of Glastonbury, archdeaconry 2,272 acres; assess,able value, £2,154; the population in of Wells and dioc6!se of Bath and Wells. The church of 1881 was 718, in 189'1, 6s6,and in 190I, 597. .A.ll Saints is a building of stone in the Perpendicular Sexton, Bert GO'dwin. style, consisting of chancel, nave, south parch and an embailitled western tower containing 5 bells: in 1900. an Post, M. O. &; T. 0., T. :M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel organ was provided,: the church was restored in 7837 Post, S. B. .&; Annuity &; Insurance Office. James and again renovated in 1890 at a, cost of £1,300 : t.here are Sandy Ohapple, sub-polStmaster. Lettets arrive froID! 300 sittings. The register of baptisms and burials dates Bridgwater at 5·7 a.m. &; 5. 20 p.m.; dispatched at froIDlo78; marriages, 1679. The living is a chapelry, 9. 2 5 a.m. &; 8.20 p.m annexed to the vicarage of S!hapwick, joint net yearly Wall Box, a,tPedwell, cleared at 7. 20 p.m. week days- only value £255, including 90 acres of glebe, with residence, A School Board of 5 members was formed Jan. 26, L'891 ; in the ,gift of Sir James Gordon Henry 'Graham-Mont- P. O. H. &, T. Reed, Bridgw!liter, clerlts to the board gomery bart. of 45 Grosvenor place, London S. W. and Board School (mixed), established in 1852, for ,87 chil- held since 1894 by the Rev. Colin Francis Montgormery dren, since enlarged for 110; average· attendance, 85; B.A. of Pembroke College, Oambridge, who resides at Alfred Jones, master Shapwick. 'Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel and Railway Station, Charle's T. Hazzard, superintendent there is a Wes1eyan chap-el at Higher Pedwell. The chari- Oarrier to Bridgwater.-'f'homas Oridland, Royal Mail ties are of £7'5 annual value, two-third!s of which is 'bus, through from 'Glastonbury, daily 9.25 a.m.; re- given to the poor and one-third retaineodJ for the repairs turning 5.30 p.m Barnes Lieut.-Colonel Raglan Wycomb Bird John, farmer Isgrove Henry Edwin, saddler R.A.M.C. (retired), Manor house Bobbett Joseph, shoe maker Jeanes John,haulier Battiscombe 001. Edmund George, Ohapman Emily (Mrs.), beer retailer Kelland James R.S.S. smith .&shcott house OhappleJas. Sandy, grocer, draper & Labdon Alfred, balter Biddlecombe M,rs. Ashcott villa post office Moore Ame1ia (Mrs.), beer retailer (J()llins Theodore, Rose cottage Ohapple WaIter J-ohn, farmer, Lawn Parsons Sydney, farmer King Robert Moss J.P., D.L. Ashcott Chick John, carpenter Parsons William, beer retailer hill Oollins Samuel, Pipers' inn Porter George, farmer, Locli:hilI haW Pollock Rev. Kenneth B.A. (curate) Oousins Andrew, butcher Puddy Sidney Symes, bakBr & farmer' Porter George, LockhiIl hall Crossman George, farmer, Huccombe Rood WaIter, beer retailer Porter Thomas, Pedwell cottage Crossman Josiah, farmer, Millslads Stevens Oharles, Ashcott inn Quaintance Oharles, Higher Pedwell CuIlen Alfred, farmer, Nithe Stevens Wm. Albion inn, &; carpenter- Strangways Miss, Hill cottage Davey Henry, turf merchant, Dodd Taylor William, farmer, Nithe Young Mrs. Ashcott villa Dibsdall Joseph, farmer Travis John, farmer COMMERCIAL. Durston John Rouse, farmer, Pedwell Treloggen Hamilton, farmer .AlIen James, general dealer Edmonds George, farmer, Buscot Vigar Harry, farmer, Pedwell Badman William, farmer Edmortds Wm. Geo. frmr. Ashcott frm Viney James (Mrs.), farmer, Nithe Bagg Albert, painter Elver Jsph. Thos. boot ma. Pedwell Ware Tom, haulier, Higher Pedwell Barnes Raglan Wycomb R.A.M.O., Evely John, farmer White Geo. turf merchant, Pedwell M.R.C.P.Irel., L.R.O.S.Edin. sur- Farrow Wm. ,shopkpr. &; wheelwrio-ht Wilcox Oharles, farmer, Lower PedweW ,geon, medical ,officer, No 6 district, Frampton Arthur, farmer '" Winslnde George, farmer, Nithe Bridgwater union & public vaccina- Francis John, farmer, Sunnyside Winslnde Sydney, farmer, Nithe tor, Manor house Hill Joseph, peat merchant ASRILL is a parish, on t,he road frorm Ilminster to the trustees of the late Joseph Webher esq. are also· Taunton, 31 miles norilh·west from llminster station on landowners. The soil is ,stonerush and clay; subsoil is the Chard' branch of the Great Western railwa,y, andB clay andJ gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, peas. miles south-east from Taunton, in the Bridgwater division and beans. The acreage is 2,635; rateable value, of the county, western division of Abdick and Bulstone £3,818; the population in 1'89'1 was 552 in the civil and' hundred, Ilminster petty sessional div1sion, Ohard union 414 in the ecclesiastical parish. and county court district, rural deanery of 11minster, Parish Clerk, John Mear. archdeaconry of Ta.unton and diocese of Bath and Wells. STEWLEY, a. hamlet I! miles north, formerly a part. The church of ·St. Mary is an ancient building of stone in of 11e Abbotts, and Rapps I mile east, taken partly froIn! the Norman, Early English, Decorated and 'Perpendicular Broadway and partly fro~ Ilton, were., March (25... IB8'5 .. styles, consisting of chancel, nave, nort.hporch and an under the provisions of the" Divided Paris.hes Act,n incor embattled western tower containing 6 bells: it was par- porated: with this parish by Local Government D()arcU t~all.y restored in .1882 at a cost of £650, and has 185 Orders 16,420 and '17,648 respectively, and by Order slttmgs. The regIster dates from the y&ar 1558. T,he 17,647, another part of Broadway was amalgamated with. living is a l'ect()ry, net yearly value £226, including 22 this parish. acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Post Office.--,Mrs. Anna Meal', sub-postmistress. Let. Bath and Wells, and'held since 1884 by the Rev. Oharles ters arrive from Ilminster at 7.55 a.m. &; 5.30 p.m.; Houghton .:M.A. of Ernmanuel College, Oambridge. In dispatched at 7.10 p.m. week days only. Postal orders. the parish is ,Q chalybeate spring, which has heen found are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money serviceable in diseases of the digestive organs and scrofu- order office is at H8Jtch Beauchamp &i telegraph office· Ions complaints. Jordans- is the seat of WilIiam Speke at Hatch Beuuchamp l'ailwuy station, 3 miles distant esq. D.L., J.P. lord of the manor and chief landowner. Wall Letter Box, Thickthorn, cleared at 7.15 p.m. week William WyndJham esq. of Dinton House, Salisbury, and days only