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538 WITHAM FRIARY. . [KELLY'S chief landowners. The soil and subsoil are clay and Post Office. Mrs. Adelaide Millard, .sub-postmistress. stone brash. The land is used solely for dairy farms. Letters through Bath arrive at 7·55 a.tn. & 3.16 Cheese making is carried o~ a good deal. The acreage p.m. ; dispatched at 3.40 & 8.27 p.m. No delivery on is 5·447 of land and 9 of water; rateable value, £5,968; sundays. The nearest money order office i.s at Maiden the population in I9II was 376. Bradley & telegraph office at Wanstrow, 3 miles distan- GAER HILL is a , a small portion of which Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1840 & only is in this parish. BELLERIC.A is about 2! miles enlarged in 1885, for 86 children; average attendance, west. ROUGH STUBBS, HIGHER and LOWER HOLT, 44; Miss E. Taylor, mistress and DREWLEY are hamlets. Railway Station, James Swainson, station master Loader Mrs. The Hermitage Crees Robert, farmer, Walk farm Holloway & Clare, provision mers Rouse Rev. Percival William M.A. Crees Waiter, farmer, New house Pickford Elijah, farmer, Downs (vicar), Vicarage Croom Robt. Ernest, farmr.Quarr hill Powell Geo. farmer, Moor Park farm COMMERCIAL. Denning & Son, farmers, Little West Ryall .Albert V. B. farmer, Moorleaze Baker Sidney, farmer, Miller's farm barn & Holt Salvidge William Culliford, Seymour Bown Harold & Winifred (Miss), Denning Robert, farmer, Iron mills .Arms P.H farmers, Gibbons farm, Upper Holt Doman Albert,timber haulier,Gare hi Savins Henry, blacksmith Butler James, farmer, Abbeyfield frm Gardiner William, farmer, Park farm Westover Arthur J. farmer & over- Butler William, farmer, Great West Hallett Charles, carpenter seer, Tyne Mead farm Barn farm Hallett Rezia, farmer, Sweetnap farm White Arthur, farmer, Lower West Clare Alma J. grocer & draper Hoddinott Edward John, farmer, Wit- Barn farm Orees James, farmer, Manor farm qam Hall farm White Waiter. farmer, Bellerica WITHIEL FLOREY is a parish and village on the but the earlier years are very imperfect. The living is road between Williton and , 7 miles north of a vicarage, net yearly value £so, without residence, in Morebath station on the Devon and Somerset section of the gift of the trustees of the late J ames Hervey Insole the Great Western railway, 8 south from esq. and held since 1906 by the Rev. William Jolliffe station on the Mineral railway, 7 north­ Thomas M.A. of Selwyn College, Cambridge, who is east from Dulverton, 8 north-west from Wiveliscombe also rector of and resides at . The trustees and 7 south-west from Williton, in the Western division of the late J. H. Insole esq. are lords of the manor. of the county, union and petty sessional division of Dul­ Messrs. G. L. and R. Cornish, of , are the verton, hundred and countv• court district of Williton, principal landowners. The soil is shaly and rocky. The rural dE-anery of Wiveliscombe, archdeaconry of Tannton land is chiefly pasture. The acreage is 2,483; rateable and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary value, £1,555; the population in 1911 was 66. is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style, Letters arrive from daily at 10.30 a.m. Road­ consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a low em­ water is the nearest money order office, 6 miles dis­ battled western tower, partly cased with slate, and con­ tant, & the nearest telegraph office, ~ taining 3 beHs: in the chancel are two stained windQws, miles distant one of which was erected in 1882 by the late J. H. Insole Wall Letter Box cleared at 10.30 a.m. week days only esq. as a memorial to his mother: in the same year the • chureh was re-seated and the chancel repaired, the ex­ Public Elementary School (mixed), QTiginally built iD pense being defrayed by Mr. Insole: there are sittings 1865, to hold 6o children; average attendance, 13 J for Ioo persons. The register dates from the year 1697. Mrs. Sarah A. Vile, mistress

COMMERCIAL. Greenslade Jas. farmer,Higher Escott Vellacott Herbert & Ernest, farmers. Evans John, farm bailiff to Messrs. Maunder Thomas, farmer, Witbiel Ford farm G. L. & R. Cornish, Swansea Florey farm Vellacott Eli, farmer,Castle Hill farn) Farmer Uharles, farm bailiff to G. L. Norman John & George, farmeq, Cornish esq. Lower Escott Gupworthy is a parish and village, on the road and chief landowner. The soil is stone-rush on red from Williton to and , 2 milPs from sand; the subsoil various, including marl, gravel and Washford station and 2! miles south-east from Dunster clay. The crops are wheat, barley, beans and pasture. station on the West .Somerset branch of the Great The area is 3·5Q5 acres; rateable value, £3,278 ; the Western railway, and 5 west from Williton and 5 south­ population in 1911 was, civil 343, ecclesiastical 225. east from Minehead, in the Western division of the Sexton, George Gould. county, hundred of , petty sessional division of Dunster, union and county court district of Williton, Post Office. Tom Edwin Cockram, sub-postmaster. rural deanery of Dunster, archdeaconry of Taunton and Letters from Taunton (through Carhampton), arrive diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Nicholas at 7·45 a.m. & 4·55 p.m.; dispatched at 6.50 p.m.; is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular there is no sunday delivery or dispatch; letters are style, consisting of chancel, nave and an embattled given to callers only at Carhampton post office on tower on the south side containing 4 bells : there are sunday. Dunster, 2! miles distant, is the nearest effigies of a widow and a young man of the 15th money order & telegraph office century, each holding a heart case: in the Vf'stry is a RODHUISH is a hamlet and was formerly a detached brass to Joan Carne who is reputed to have married part of Carhampton parish, but on March 25, 1884, by three husbands and murdered them all: the church was Local Government Board Order 14,599• it was amalga­ restored in 1913 : there are sittings for 150 persons. mated with this parish for civil purposes, but is still in The registers date from 1669, but are imperfect from the ecclesiastical parish of Carhampton. A. F. Luttrell 1713 to 1729 ; there is also a list of rectors from the esq. is the principal landowner. Here is a chapel, year 1297. The living is a Tectory, net yearly value served by the vicar of Carhampton; divine service is £no, including 7 acres of glebe, with residence, in the conducted at 3.15 p.m. every Sunday except the second gift of the representatives of the late James Pulleine in the month, when the service is at 11 a.m. esq. and held since 1894 by the Rev. George William Gova.n Lic.Div. of St. David's College, Lampeter. Here Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.25 p.m. week days only is a chapel for United Methodists. Alexander Fownes Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1866, for Luttrell esq. of Dunster Castle, is lord of the manor 90 children; average attendance, 46; (vacant), mist Adair John, Blalowan Case Herbt. Geo. farmer, Langridge North John William A.R.A., R.W.S. Case Mrs. R. Kraal mill (letters, , Taunton) artist Finch Waring, Rodhuish Case Wait. market gardnr. Rodhuish Pearse Henry, haulier Govan Rev. George William Lic.Div. Case Wm. road contractor, Rodhuish Reed George, farmer, Sandhill Rectory Chilcott Albert J. wheelwright Reed John, farmer, Jenkins farm A I.ysons Mrs. The Cottage Cockram Tom Edwin, miller (water) Stevens Arth. road contractor, Sand- North John William A.R.A., R.W.S &sub-postmaster,Withyoombe mills hill plot COMMERCIAL. Eames William George, shopkeeper Sully William. shoe tnaker Case A. T. & E. F. steam rolling Hagley Charles, farmer, Combe Surridge William David Earton, contractor;;; estimates freE'; dis- Leversha Leonard Thomas, assistant farmer, Higher Rodhuish tam~e no object, Kraal overseer, Court place Vearncombe Thos. farmr. Escott farm Case Beadon, blacksmith LeveJaha Thos, H. farmer, Court pl Watts John, farmer, Styles, Rodhuish Case Edgar F. farmer & thrashing Maidment Henry1 mason Willis Thos. wheelwright, Rodhuish machine & traction engine proprie- Nethercott William, farmer,Drucombe tor, Withycombe farm Norman John H. farmer, Rodhuish