• 364 NORTH PETHERTON • I SOMERSET. [KELLY'S ' Qu4lntock Vale Cider Co. Limited Sparkeil William, beer retailer Wilkins Charle3 William, shoe makr (William Dunlop McCreath, sec) Starkey, Knight & Ford Limited, cider Wilkins Edwd. farmer, Milestone farm Rich William 0. saddler, Fore street manufacturers & brewers, North Wilkins Thomas Grislock, dairyman Ridge Henry & Son, wheelwrights Petherton brewery; & at Taunton Williams John. haulier Ridge James, blacksmith & Bridgwater Williams Samuel, marine store dealr Rogers & Son, butchers, Fore street Studley George Henry, Swan inn W inslade W alt. blacksmith,Shearston Satinders William, haulier, Dye house Townsend & Son, grocers, Fore street Sellick Anthony, mason, Mill street Tregaskis Valentine, hair dresser HUN'l'WORTH. Shattock William, farmer, Shearston Tucker Lucy (Mrs.), dress maker W add on Clifford Charles, The Ha yes Shepherd Harry, grocer, Fore street Vickery Emma (Mrs.), sho-pkeeper, Adams Henry, shopkeeper Sibley Francis, farmer, Ball's farm Queen street Baker Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer Slocombe John & Son, wicker chair Warren John, baker ~lilton Thos. frmr.Huntworth Pk. frm manufacturers Warren William, shopkeeper, Fore st Moate William, farmer Slocombe John & William, builders West Joseph, market gardener Smith Jacob, basket maker ,. Slocombe Waiter, farmer, Daws farm West Richard, greengrocer Wills George, farmer Smith Alfred, basket maker,Compass J White William. farmer, Boomer farm • SOUTH PETHERTON is a imall town and parish, dragon, and the inscription " S' Ilugonis de Pencriz." giving a name to a hundred, and is on the river Parret, The palace of Ina, king of the West Saxons (A.D. 3~ miles south-west from the Martock station on the 690-725), is an interesting building, originally poss~ssed Yeovil branch of the Great Western railwny, I36 from and used as a residence by the Saxon king whose name London, 5 east-north-east from Ilminster, 5 north from it bears, and subsequently by the Daubeney family, Crewkerne, in . the Yeovil parliamentary division, Il­ who became owners also of the greater part . of the Ininster petty sessional division, Yeovil uni'on, Crew­ surrounding country: the palace having been allowed kerne county court district and in the rural deanery for many years to crumble and decay, was restored of Crewketne, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese by the late Edmund Estcourt Gale esq. and is now the of Bath and Wells. The town is well paved and property of Mrs. Arthur R. Hoskyns. Wigborough lighted -with gas, and supplied with water from House, a fine Tudor mansion, erected in 1585 and some­ private wells and from a public supply, openM· in tim~ occupied by the families of Compton, Hele and 1903 by the Yeovil Rural District Council; the water Mundrj', is the property of the trustees ~f the late is pumped from a well in Gorefield to a reservoir, George Moody esq. Bridge House is the property and and supplied to the town by gravitation. The church residence of William Farewell Blake esq. J.P.: the of SS. Peter and Paul is a cruciform building of stone house is pleasantly situated in well-timbered grounds of in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, con­ about 400 acres. Wi11iam Parsons Peters esq. who is sisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, transepts, lord of the manor, William Farewell Blake esq. and the north and south porches and a central embattled tower, trustees of the late George Moody esq. are the chief the upper stages of which are octagonal, containing a landowners. The soil is a heavy sandy loam, and the clock and 8 bells: the nave, aisles, south transept and subsoil is marl stone, sand and clav of lias. The chief upper part of the tower are Perpendicular, and. the crops are wheat, barley, beans, potatoes, parsnips and .chancel, south porch and lower part of the tower Early roots. .The area is 3,486 acres of land and B of water; English, with more recent insertions : the north tran­ rateable value, £I2,4I4; the population in I9II was :;;~pt is Decorated: in the south transept is a tomb 1,935· of Purbeck marble with brasses to Sir Giles Daubeney, ob. 11th January, 1445, great-grandfather of the first OVJ<:R STRATTON, an extena,ive hamlet noted for its Earl of Bridgwater of this family: there are several agricu1tural and pasture land and apple orchards, is r J>tained windows, including one inserted in I9I3 in mile south. There is a Church Mission Room here, erected about r865, seating Ioo persons; here also is a memory of the late Dr. Hugh Norris, the antiquarian, United Methodist chapel, erected in 186r, with 150 and his wife, Joanna Philippa Norris: the church was restored in I86o, and again in I879-8o, at a cost of sittings. The children attend the schools at ·South Petherton. £I,707• and in I896 the tower was restored and two bells added at a cost of £950, the bells being the gift of Compton DurV'ille, three-quarters of a mile wesrt; Hugh Ruscombe Poole esq. and Mn. Poole: there are Watergore, half a mile south; South Harp, a mile and a sittings for 68o persons. The register dates from the quarter south; Wigborough, I~ south-east and Yeabridge, year I574· The living is. a vicarage, net yearly value one mile south-east, are tithings in the parish. £387, with residence and I acre of glebe, in the gift of Sexton, Richard Crumbleholroe. the Dean and Chapter of Bristol, and held since I9I6 by Post, M. 0., T., Express Delivery & Public Telephone the Rev. Christopher Campbell Sharpe M.A. of Trinity Call Office (letters should have Somersetshire added). ·College, Cambridge. The Wesleyan chapel (Coke -Mrs. Ann Hockin, sub-postmistress. No delivery or Memorial) is a building of stone in the Gothic style, dispatch on sundays. Money orders are granted from with Sunday schools and minister's residence attached. 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily and was erected in I882 at a cost of £3,572' the chapel Post Office, Over Stratton.-Charles Sweet, sub-post­ will seat 320 persons. The Congregational chapel was master. Letters throug-h South Petherton; no de­ first founded in r662; the present edifice, erected in livery or dispatch of letters on sundays. The nearest r863, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, seating money order & telegraph office is at South Petherton, 5oo persons: a manse adjoining was erected in I874• 2 miles distant • and in r882 a school house with class rooms and an Wall Letter Boxes.-Pitway; St. James street; Water­ assembly room, seating soo persons, were added. .A gore; Compton Durville; Yea bridge & Lower Stratton, N oncunfonnist society, known as the "Old Meeting," cleared week days only was founded here in Palmer street in I688, and main­ tained at first by the Presbyterians, but eventually PUBLIC ES'TABLISH~IENTS. became Unitarian; in I747• the society became Con­ Cemetery, George Henry .Tames Sprake, clerk to the gregational, bnt was finally bruken up about 1844: two burial committee of the Parish Council, Tarampa small silver cups or beakers, used in celebrating the house, Palmer street "Ordinance," are now in possession. of the trustees of Police Station, Compton road, Henry Denning, sergeant the late J. Patten Daniel esq. ; one of these has the Volunteer Fire Brig-ade, H. R. Poole, secretary ; T. G. ball-mark of 1693-4, and the other of 1697-8. A ceme­ Walter, captain, --& I4 men tery of 3~ acres, enlarged about I697 by gift of ~~ acres of the late William Blake esq. J.P. of Bridge, PUBLIC OFFICERS. and half a mile from the· town, was formed in I868, Certifying Factory Surgeon, Medical Officer & Public and is under the control of the Parish Council ; it has Vaccinator, 5th District, Yeovil Union, & Registrar of two mortuary chapels. A Liberal Club was erected in Births & Deaths, South Petherton Sub-District, the Market square in I9I2 by the members of the Blake Augustine Wm. Sinclair L.R.C.P., L.M. & L.R.O.S family in memory of their father, the late W. Blal;e Edin. Roundwell esq. The market is obsolete, as is also the sheep fair, Clerk . to Parish Council, Assistant Overse-er & Collect()r formerly held annually on the 6th of July. There is a of Rates, Francis E. Hardin15, Rock house Volunteer Fire Brigade. The charities are of £6o Returning Officer of the County Council & Clerk to the yearly value. Many interesting relics have been met Othery &c. Drainage Board, Hugh Ruscombe Poole, with ht>reabouts; these include a bronze palstave or West street axe-shaped two-looped celt, found in 1842, three bronze Surveyor & Inspector to the Yeovil Rural District Council, ·celts, found in 1830 at Wigborough, near here, and an Nathaniel George Fish, Court house, St. James street oval bronze seal of the 14th century, found in April, Under Sheriff for the County, Hugh Ruscombe Poole, I853, in the garden of Mr. Henry Norris, sen. South West street; deputy, Stanhope Henry Sheke11 Haynes. Petherton, with a figure of St. Michael ~reading on the West street .