DIRECfORY.] SOl\fERSETSHIRE. EAST COK.ER. 205 has been completed: there are sittings for 140 persons: in years. The area is 1,046 acres; rateable value, £990; the the churchyard is an ancient cross and a tomb to Thomas population in 1891 was 112. Purdue, a bellfounder of repute, whose foundry stood where Parish Clerk, Benjamin Tomkins. is now the rector's orchard i he died in 17II· 'fbe register PosT 0FFICE.-Arthur Loveless, sub-postmaster. Letters dates from the year 1685. The living is a rectory, gross by mail cart from Sherborne, Dorset, arrive at 8.50 a.m.; yearly value £160, with residence and 21 acres of glebe, in dispatched at 4.45 p.m. week days only. Postal orders the gift of Viscount Portman, and held since 1876 by the are issued here, but not paid. Yetminster is the neare!;t Rev. John Algernon Lawrence LL.M. of Jesus College, Cam- money order & telegraph office, miles distant bridge. The only house of interest in the parish is the 3 rectory, which bears date 16o6. Viscount Portman is lord WALL LETTER Box, Prowse's cross, cleared at 5 p.m. week of the manor and sole landowner. The soil and subsoil are days only clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and roots, but pasture Church School (mixed), built in 1871, for 40 children; land to a considerable extent has been laid down of recent average attendance, 15 ; Miss Margaret Holland, mistress Holland Miss Thring Thomas Charles Edward Tomkins Benj. farmer, & parish clerk Lawrence Rev. John Algernon M.A. Clarke John, dairyman White George, dairyman, Weston Rectory Dampney Henry, farmer, Manor farm Wyatt Wm. farmer, Netherton farm Thring Miss Loveless Arthur, shopkeeper,Post office CLUTTON is a widely scattered village and parish on Medical Officer of Health, Alexander Hastings Whicher the high road from Bristol to Wells, with a station on the M.R.C.S.Eng. Midsomer Norton North Somerset branch of the Great Western railway, and Inspector of Nuisances, H. H. Purnell, Paulton is to miles south from Bristol, 10 north-east from Wells and CLO'ITON UNION. IO south-west from Bath, in the Northern division of the county, Clutton union, Temple Cloud petty sessional division Board day, alternate fridays at II a. m. at the Board Room, and county court district, Chew hundred, rural deanery Workhouse. of Chew, archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of Bath The Union comprises the following parishes :-Cameley, and Wells. The church of St. Augustine is a fine Camerton, Chelwood, Chew Magna, Chew Stoke, Chil- building. chiefly in the Perpendicular style, consisting compton, Clutton, Compton Martin, East Harptree, of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and Farmborough, Farrington, Gurney, High Littleton,Hinton an embattled western tower with pinnacles, contain- Blewett, Litton, Midsomer Norton, Nempnett, Norton ing 5 bells: the tower is Norman, and an arch of the Malreward, Paulton, Publow, Radstock, Stanton Drew, same period divides the chancel and nave; there is also a Ston Easton, Stowey, Timsbury, Ubley, West Harptree & Norman arch in the porch: the tower was rebuilt in I728, Widcombe. The population of the union in I89I was and the church enlarged and rebuilt in 1865 at a cost of 24,904; area,47,897 acres; rateable value in 1897,£126,983 £2,000, the Earl of Warwick giving the sum of £300 and Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, James the remainder being raised by voluntary contributions and a Sumner Dury, Walcot lodge, Temple Cloud rate: a gate with pillars and lamp was erected in I887, and Treasurer, J. C. Aiken, Stuckey's Bank, Bristol in 1888 the chancel was restored and decorated by the Relieving & Vaccination Officers, Yo. I district, E. J. Clark, rector: the east window is stained and there is an ancient Midsomer Norton; No. 2 district, Albert Hanney,Publow; font: there are sittings for 372 persons. The register dates No. 3 district, Enoch Salmon, East Harptree from 1693, but is mutilated. The living is a rectory, net Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Clutton district, yearly value£ 124, including 54 acres of glebe, with residence, Theodore Martin M. R.C. s.Eng. Temple Cloud; Chew Magna in the gift of the Earl of Warwick. In the village there district,Richd. Hugh Brew L.R c.P.&s.Edin.Chew Magna; are Congregational, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist Timsbury district, Frank Woods L. R.C.P.Lond. Timsbury; chapels. Charities of £5, arising from a farm in Clare, in Harptree district, Henry C.Linden L.R.C.P.Edin.Compton Suffolk, are distributed in bread to widows of the parish Martin; Midsomer Norton district, Alexander Waugh who are not receiving parish relief; a benefaction of £6 Ss. L,R.C.P.LOnd. Midsomer Norton arising from lands in the adjl)ining parish of Hinton Blewett, Superintendent Registrar, Ed ward H. Perrin, Temple (,'loud is similarly distributed; Trinder's of £5 is for blankets, Registrars of Births & Deaths, Chew Magna sub-district, and Harris's of £5 for clothing. Here are collieries, stone William Edwin Milton, Chew Magna; deputy, Mrs. W. E. quarries and a brewery ; lime burning is also carried on. Milton, Chew Magna ; Clutton sub-district, Thomas The Earl of Warwick is lord of the manor and principal Melhuish, High Littleton; Harptree sub-district, Enocb landowner. The soil is clay and sand; subsoil, limestone. Salmon, East Ha.rptree; deputy, Mrs. Salmon; l\liJsomer The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots, and there Norton sub-district, Thomas Melhuish jun. Midsomer are several dairy farms. The area is 1,560 acres; rateable Norton; deputy, W. Melhuish, Midsomer Norton value, £5,034; the population in I891 was I,095, including Registrar of MatTiages, Augustus Bull, Temple Cloud five officers and 144 inmates of the workhouse. The Workhouse, under the brow of a hill, was erected in Parish Clerk, Charles Branch. I837, with stone from the neighbouring quarries, & will hold 400 inmates; John Sansom, master; Rev. H. H. PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.­ Olver, chaplain; Theodore Martin, medic3.1 officer; Mrs. EdwinHill, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Bristol Sansom, matron; Miss Sophia Rowe, schoolmistress at 7.10 a.m. & I.5 p.m. ; dispatched at n a.m. 5.25 & ScHOOL ATTENDANCB COMMITTEE. 8. IO p. m ; sun days, open from 9 a. m. till IO a. m. ; Clerk, J. Sumner Dury, Temple Cloud dispatched 8.40 p.m. Temple Cloud is the nearest tele­ Attendance Officers, Enoch Salmon, East Harptree ; A. graph office, I mile distant Hanney, Publow; B. Warford, Mldsomer Norton National School (mixed & infants),founded in 1728,enlarged CLUTTON RuRAL DISTRICT CouNCIL. in 1s7o & again in I885, for I75 children, & partly en- Clerk, James SumnerDury, Watcombe lodge, Temple Cloud dowed; average attendance, 130; Joshua Ellison, master Treasurer, J. C. Aiken, Stuckey's Bank, Bristol Railway Station, William Herbert Co!Iins, station master Boley Mrs. Hill view, Sutton hill Carter Charles, corn miller (water), Lewis Richard & Co. brewers, Clutton lloudier Rev. John Hervey [curate], Cloud Hill mill (postal address, brewery Rectory Temple Cloud, Bristol) Maggs George, wheelwright Hinton Wm. Richard, Tynemore house Carter Fred, Earl of Warwick P.H Maggs William. watch maker Lewis :Mrs. Clutton house Challenger Joseph, farmer & haulier Marsh Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper Med way George, Gladstone villa Church Temperance Society Club (Rev. Marsh Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Windross Rev. Herbert [Wesleyan] Albert Boudier, president) Middle George, shoe maker COMMERCIAL. Doman James, farmer Moore Henry, beer retailer Attwood Richard, shopkeeper Earl of Warwick's Somerset Collieries Partitt Samuel, mason Bailey George, beer retlr. & fly propr (Matthew Watson, mine manager; Perry James & Henry, farmers Heacham Francis, insur. agent, Breach Egbert Spear, sales manager); tele- Rumbal Alfred Geor~e, horse trainer Blacker Fredk. stone & marble mason graphic address, "Grayfield, High Simmons Waiter, refreshment rooms Blacker Hannah Evans (Mrs.), beerret Littleton, Bristol" Taylor John, gamekeeper to the Earl of Blacker Henrietta (Mrs.), farmer, Gibbons Henry, farmer, Church farm Warwick North End farm Grant Francis, grocer Tiley James, blacksmith Bowdich Alfred, quarry owner (postal Hill Asher, grocer & draper Tiley Thomas, painter &c address, Temple Cloud, Bristol) Hill.Edwm, brocer & baker, Post office Tucker Chas. & Son, butchers &farmers Branch John (Mrs.), wheelwright Hunt Williarr:, shopkeeper Young David, farmer Bridges John, beer retailer Young Robert, farmer EAST COKER is a large parish and village,3 miles south t'n London and South Western railway, in the Southern from Yeovil station 0-1 th3 Great Western railway and I d~vision of the county, Honndsborough, Barwick and Coker mile north from Sutto:1 Bingham st:1tion on the m:tin line of hundred, Yeov:l petty sessional division, union and county •