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White Fred & Son, dairymen, 16 Cowl street Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited (branch) (Robert White Elizabeth (Mrs.), laundress, Cowl street Dobell, manager), 3 High street; draw on London &. White Frederick, farmer, Windsor hill Westminster Bank Limited, London E C White ·Sidney James, fancy goods dealer, 38 Town street W odehouse Mary Ann a (Mrs.), ladies' school, Hilworth Wilkins Sergt.-Major Henry Joseph, instructor to the house, Waterloo road LMt Half Battery Somerset Royal Horse Artillery World's (The) Stores Limited, grocers, 19 High street Territorial Force, Drill hall, Charlton road Yeomanry, see North Somerset Yeomanry Territorial Williams Josiah Samuel, Bell commercial hotel, posting Force house & motor garage, Market place. T N 5 York William Charles Jackman, assistant land steward Wilson Colin McClure, solicitor, see Norton & Wilson to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales 'K.G.; offices, West Shepton • SHEPTON MONTAGUE is a parish on the Bruton is the chief landowner. The soil is part light and stony and Sherborne road, 2! miles south from Bruton station and part heavy clay, and the subsoil is chiefl.y oolite on the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth branch of the rock. The chief crops are corn and roots; there is Great Western railway, 2 south-east from Cole station on also some dairy land. The area is 2,168 acres; assessable the Somerset and Dorset Railway and 3 north-west from value, £z,004; the population in 19II was 251 in the Wincanton, in ihe North F'erris hundred, Wincanton civil and 257 in the ecclesiastical parish (which includes union, petty sessional division and county court district, part of Charlton Musgrove). Eastern division of the county, rural deanery of Bruton, By Local Government Board Order r6,58o, March 25, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The 1885, and Order 16,sBr, March 24, r884, Folly Cottages church of St. Peter is an ancient building of stone in the were transferred from Shepton Montague to Charlton Mus- Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south grove for civil purposes. · porch and an embattled tower, with pinnacles, on the south side, containing 3 bells, one of which is cracked: STONEY STOKE is a hamlet, 2! miles east; service the church was restored in r8g6, when a new roof was is held each Sunday at 3 p.m. in an old schoolroom, for put on and the site drained throughout at an expense which provision is made by the Earl of Ilchester. of £2oo: the church was again re-roofed in 1912 at a Knowle is a hamlet, 1! miles south-west, and South cost of £244: there are sittings for 220 persons. The Town is a hamlet, about I mile from the parish church. register dates from December 7• 156o. The living is a Parish Clerk, James Chinn. vicarage, net yearly value £88, with 3- a(:res of glebe Letters through Castle Cary arrive at 8, except for and residence, in the gift of the Earl of Ilchester, and Stoney Stoke, which are received through Bruton & held since 1896 by the Rev. Henry Arthur Annesley Knowle through Wincanton. Wall Letter Box, cleared Th.Assoc. of King's College, London. There is a Con- 7·45 a.m. & 5·35 p.m. week days only. Bruton is the gregational chapel, built in 186o, and rebuilt in 1904. nearest money order & telegraph office,2! miles distant William Robert Phelips esq. of Montacute House, Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1842, for Ilminster, is lord of the manor, and the Right Hon. 6o children ; average attendance, 32; Mrs. Harriet Henry Hobhouse P.C. of Hadspen H Down William, farmer, Stoney Stoke Newbury Francis, farmer Hannam William Dyke Henry, farmer, Stoney Stoke Sims Emma (Mrs.), farmer, Lower Traves Waiter Gould William, farmer, Knowle rock Shepton COMMERCIAL. Hannam Ernest, farmr. Low. Shepton Vallis Waiter, beer retailer Baber Ernest R. blacksmith Hannam Louis, farmer SHIPH AM is a parish on the Mendip Hills, and near 1 Mrs. Hannah More, the distinguished authoress, who the road from Bristol to Langport, 2 miles east from resided at Barley Wood, in Wrington parish, with Winscombe station on the Cheddar Valley branch of the £8or 17s. 5d.; a portion of this amount is now on mort­ Great Western railway and 3 north-north-east from Ax- gage, producing 5 per cent. and another portion is in­ bridge, in the Wells division of the eounty, Wrington vested in the Funds, realising 2i per cent. There arr hundred, Axbridge petty sessional division, union and mines of calamine, but they are not worked at present. county court district, rural deanery of Locking, archdea- The trustees {)f the late John Temperley Grey esq. are conry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The the principal landowners. The soil is light, and the church of St. Leonard, erected in 1843, is a building of subsoil is clay, resting on sandstone and conglomerate. stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave and The land is chiefl.y in pasture. The acreage is 772; an embattled western tower containing 5 !}Jells: the rateable value, £1,406; population in 19II, 359· church was thoroughly restored; in 1906: there are Post Office. Alfred Henry Curtis, sub-postmaster. Let- sitting& for 25o persons. The register dates from the year ters from Winscombe, Somerset, arrive at 7 a. m. & 1560. The living is a rectory united to that of Row- 6.20 p.m.; dispatched at 8.15 a. m. & 7.20 p.m. & 7 berrow, joint net yearly value £350; including 46 acres a.m. & 6.15 p.m. local; there is no post on sundays. of glebe, with residence. in the gift of the Dean and Winscombe is the nearest money order & telegraph Chapter of Wells (two turns) and the Lord Chancellor office, 2 miles distant (one turn), and held since x8g5 by the Rev. Charles W 11 L B S 1 d 6 .. 6 H enry Ro chf or t D aVIes· B . A . of T rm1· 't y C oll ege, D u bl"m, a k Ptterda nlox, tar, c eare at .30 a.m. "" ·45 p.m. and surrogate. There is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in wee ys 0 Y 1892. Two fairs are held yearly, one on the last Public Elementary School (mixed), rebuilt in 1885, (or Wednesday in April, and the other on 17th November, So children; average attendance, 70; Miss Winifred for cattle. There is a club for females, endowed by Vincent, mistress • Davies Rev. Charles Henry Rochfort Baulch William, Miners' Arms P .H Lock Charles, market gardener, B.A. (rector & surrogate),TheRctry Branch Georg-e, shopkeeper Cock hill HamJs George Charles, Manor house Curtis Alfd. By. builder & postmastr Pitman Charles Strode (Mrs.), Saunders Frost, Broadway Foord Sam, farmer farmer, Chestnut Tree ' COMMERCIAL. Hembury John, shoe repairer Shepherd William, market g-ardener Adams Frederick Geor~e, grocer,Star Hemmens John Edward, baker Simmons George, builder, Hillside Adult School Guest House (Miss M. Hill John, farmer, Longbottom farm Stephens Betsy (Mrs.), farmer, Star Robson, warden), Penscot Holbrook Herbert, farmer, Winter- Thatcher George, farmer Athay Fras. Jas. farmer, Manor farm head Stream farm Thiery Wm. farmer, Fairhill farm Athay William, carpenter Holbrook James R. farmer & assistant Wool•ey Thomas Hy. Penny, farmer .A.tkins John, Star inn overseer, Longrow farm, Star SIDCOT, see Winscombe. SIMONSBATH, 11ee Exmoor. SKILGATE is a village and parish, bounded on the diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. John, re­ south by the county of Devon, 2! miles north-east from built of local stone in 1872, in the Early English style, Morebath station on the Devon and Somerset branch of comprises chancel, nave of two bays, north aisle, south the Great Western railway, 5 north-east from Bampton porch and an embattled Norman tower at the west end and 5 east from Dulverton, in the Western division of the containing 4 bells: the chancel was erected at the ex­ county, hundred of Williton, petty sessional division and pense partly of the Rev. John Bere, rector, r865-83, and union of Dulverton, county court district of Tiverton, rural partly by subscription, and has several stained windows: deanery of Wiveliscombe, archdeaconry of Taunton and there are sittings for 120 persons: at the entrance t~