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7 276 BIGBBRIDGE. SOMERSETSHIRE. [KELLY S Wall Row. • Gatcombe Miss Durston Charles, timber merchant Hunt Lancelot, farmer Baker Charles, beer retailer Heal John, farmer, Yew Tree farm Salvidge Frank, farmer Bartlett William Henry, insurance agt Heal Joseph, farmer, Ash house Smith Tom, insurance agent Bulpin Eliza (Miss), dress maker Hodge Beatrice (Miss), dress maker HILLFARRANCE is a small village on the river Tone, possessed of the manorial rights over the same. The prin- 3t miles north-east from Wellington station on the main cipal landowners are William Ayshford Sanford esq. of line of the Great Western railway, and 4! west from Nynehead Court; Lord Ashburton,and Wyndham Slade esq. Taunton, in the Western division of the county, hundred of of Montys, Taunton, and 70 St. George's square, London Taunton Dean, Taunton petty sessional division, Wellington s w. The soil is generally a strong clay ; subsoil, marl; and union and county court district, rural deanery of Welling- produces excellent crops of wheat, beans, ba.rley, mangolds ton, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. and swedes. The acreage of the united parishes of Oake By Local Government Board Order x6,6o3, which came into and Hillfarrance (united for Union purposes under the name operation March 24, I884, the parish was for civil purposes of Oake) is I,69o; rateable value, £4,505; the population amalgamated with Nynehead, Milverton and Oake. The in I89I was 396. church of the Holy Cross is a small building of stone, in the Sexton, Daniel Cattle. Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south Letters through Taunton by foot messenger arrive at 9 a. m. chapel, south porch and a western tower wit.h turret stair- N orton-Fitzwarren is the nearest money order & telegraph case on the north side and containing 5 bells : the south office, miles distant chapel was built by William De Vernai, ob. I333, who is 3 buried here : in the porch are the remains of a holy water WALL LETTER Box, in the village, cleared at 5·45 p.m. week stoup : there are sittings for ISO persons. The register days only & at Pontispoole, cleared at 5·25 p.m dates from the year I813. The living is a vicarage, net A School Board of 7 members was formed March 26, I877, yearly value £no, with residence and about 13 acres of for the united district of Hillfarrance, Oake & Heathfield; glebe, in the gift of Trinity College, Oxford, and held since Rev. E. B. C. Spur way M. A. chairman & hon. clerk to the I896 by the Rev. Edward Popham Spurway M.A. of Trinity board, Joseph Kidner College, Cambridge, who is also rector of and resides at Board School (mixed), built at Oake in 1879 at a cost of Heathfield. The manor was formerly held by William de about £1oo, for I2o children; average attendance, 70; Vernai : the several owners of estates in the parish are now Morris Jones, master; Mrs. Hannah Jones, mistress Elton William Wary, Heathfield lodge Cattle Emanuel, miller (water) Jones Joseph, farmer, Allerford Spurway Rev. Edward Brian Combe Crocker James, builder Ware James, wheelwright lii.A. Vicarage England William, farmer, Knapp farm Ware Waiter, blacksmith England William Herbert, assistant Way Edwin, thatcher & shopkeeper, COMMERCIAL. overseer for Hillfarrance, Knapp frm Hill common Adams Albert, farmer, Broom farm Escott John, Anchor inn Winter James, beer retailer & farmer, Adams Thomas, farmer, Pitland Hawkins Henry, painter & glazier Slough corner Allercott Robert, farmer, Court farm Hayman Bros. farmers, Pontispoole frm HINTON BLEWETT is a picturesque and healthy curate here I858-62 and Capt. S. A. Johnson, and held since parish and scattered village, on an eminence commanding 1892 by the Rev. Abraham Reece. There are charities of extensive views, about 3 miles south-west from Clutton £4 yearly. William WooldridgeRees-Moggesq. who is lord station on the Bristol and Radstock branch of the Great of the manor, William Wild man Kettlewell esq. of Harptree Western railway, I2 south from Bristol, 15 south-west from Court, and the trustees of the late W. B. Naish are the chief Bath and 8~ north-by-east from Wells, in the North~rn landowners. The soil is chiefly white lias, some of which is division of the county, Chewton hundred, union of Clutton, very rich grazing land.; subsoil, corn-grit. The chief crops petty sessional division and county court district of Temple are grass, hay and corn. There are fine quarries of building Cloud, rural deanery of Chew, archdeaconry of Bath and stone, and it is generally believed, veins of coal. The area diocese of Bath and Wells. The river Cam takes its rise in is I,1o2 acres; rateable value, £3,o6o; the population in this parish. The church of All Saints is an edifice of stone, 1891 was 176. in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, with The hamlets are SouTH WIDCOMBE, about half a mile an arcade of four arches on the north side, north aie~le, south west; COLEY, I mile south-west; and SHORT Woon, I mile porch and a massive embattled western tower, with three south. pinnacles and a staircase turret terminating in a very bold Parish Clerk and Sexton, Francis Lyons. finial and containing 5 bells: there is a piscina in the south Letters are received through Bristol, via Temple Cloud, at chancel wall; the chancel was restored in I893 by the 8.45 a. m. & 3·45 p.m. East Harptree (an adjoining vil- present rector: the church as sittings for 150 persons. The lage) 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order & tale- register of baptisms dates from the year I$63 ; marriages graph office. WALL LETTER Box cleared at 9·30 a.m., and burials, 1563. The living is a rectory, net yearly in- 2.45 & 4·45 p.m. ; sundays, I0.3o a. m come £238, including 106 acres of glebe, with residence, in National School, erected in 1876, for 36 children; average the gift of Rev. James Hart Johnson B.A. of Gloucester, attendance, 33; Miss Margaret Comeskey, mistress Hunt John Coley Flower Richard, gardener to W. W. Oakes Geo. farm~r, South Widcombe Johnson Rev. George [Catholic], Short- Rees-Mogg esq Panes Francis, farmer, Coley wood house Herriman William, farmer Pearce Henry, farmer Reece Rev. Abraham, Rectory Holloway William, Ring of Bells P.H Rawlings Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Abbott's Rees-Mogg Wm. Wooldridge, Manor ho Hunt John, farmer & landowner, Coley Barn farm Slaughter William, Widcombe villa James Mark, farmer, Field farm Redwood Henry, farmer, Greenway COMMERCIAL. Lyons Andrew, beer retailer Redwood William, farmer Blacker John, farmer, Middle Hill farm Marsters -, farmer Speed Henry, farmer Clavey Alfred, farmer, West end Middle Henry, dairy farmer & carrier, Withey Jn. Brock, farmer, Shortwood CrossmanChas.farmer, CoombeHl. farm Shortwood HINTON ST. GEORGE is a parish and well-built yearly value £127, including I2 acres of glebe, with resi village, on the road between the two towns, 4 miles north- dence, in the gift of EarlPoulett, and held since 1869 by the west from Crewkerne station on the London and South- Rev. James Ratcliffe Dolling M.A. of Worcester College, Western railway, and 4 south-east from Ilminster station Oxford and domestic chaplain to Earl Poulett. There is a on the Chard branch of the Great Western railway, in the Wesleyan chapel and a chapel for the Brethren. The chari Southern division of the county, hundred, petty sessional ties include £15 for blankets, £9 for shoes and stockings, division and county court district of Crewkerne, union of and 3os. for bread. Hutching's charity, amounting to I6s. Chard, rural deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taun- weekly, is divided at the discretion of Earl Poulett or his ton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The village has long agents amongst 24 families of the parish ; there are smaller been lighted with gas, and in 1889 a service of pipes was laid charities, and also nine almshouses for poor women, nomi to afford a constant supply of water. The church of St. nees of Earl Poulett. A fair is held on April 23 for cattle. George is a building of stone, in the E:uly English style, This place gives the title of Viscount to the Poulett family. eonsisting of chancel, nave of three bays, south aisl~, south Earl Poulett is lord of the manor and chief landowner ; porch and a lofty embattled western tower, with pinnacles, Hinton .House, his property here, is a. noble m')nsion, the containing a clock and 5 bells: the stained east window is a grand entrance hall being 120 feet in length, and the house memorial to John, 4th Earl Poulett K.T. d. I4th January, contains a collection of valuable pictul'es; it is surrounded I8r9, and his family; and there are monuments in the by a park of about x,ooo acres and approached by a carriage church to the Poulett, dating from the early part of the 16th drive from the village, and from the Higher and Middle century: there are sittings for 250 persons. The register lodges; the mansion is at present (I897) unoccupie:l. St. dates from the year :1632. The living is a rectory, net George's House is the residence of Lieut.-Col. E lward .