300 KILMERSDON. SO~IERSET. [KELLY'S

public by order. Lord ByIton is lord of the manor and Homer John Francis Fortescue esq. M.A., D.L. Mells 801e landowner, and also impropriator of the great tithes. park, There is every variety ·of soil, from stone bra,sh and loam Porter Edward Endymion esq. M.A. Easthill, Frome to heavy clay; the subsoil is various, but coal abounds, Shore John Henry esq. RA. Whatley house, Frome and in some cases is found at great depth. The land Strachey William esq. Rock house, Elm, Frome :.s in pasture for dairy purposes. The area of the parish Clerk to the Magistrates, Geo. A. Daniel, Bath street, is 3,552 acres; rateable value, £9,653; the population in Frame 1901 was 2,002. The chairmen, for the time being, of the Frome Rural under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act, & Midsomer Norton & Urban District Councils, 1882," a detached part of Holcombe, in are ex-officio magistrates union, has been transferred to this parisho Special & Pet,ty Sessions for the division & hundred of Charlton is a hamlet, half a mile west, and has a KilmersQ.on, comprising the parishes of Babington, Primitive Methodist chapel, built in' 1861. Charlton , Forscote, Hardington, Hemington, Hol­ Rouse, the property of Lord Hylton, is a noble mansion of combe, Kilmersdon, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, stone, occupying a prominent posi,tion and is now the Stratton-on-the-Fosse & Writhlington, are held at the residence of the Rev. Frederick Tufnell M.A. petty sessional court house once a month, on a monday Parish Clerk, Alfred Padfield. at 12 o'clock for general business, & on every monday Fost, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, 8. B., throughout the year for hearing cases under the Sum­ Annuity & Insurance Office, Kilmersdon Village.-Miss mary Jurisdiotion Act. Attendance is given by the ElIen Florence Woodford, sub-postmistress. Box closes clerk every monday morning from 12 till 1, for the .at 111.50 a.m. & 7 p.m. Letters arrive {rom Bath at 7 purpose of taking informations, depositions &c a.m. & 2.30 p.m. for callers only; on sundays letters arrive at 7.50 a.m.; box cleared at 8 a.m Wall Letter Boxes at Charlwn cleared at 7.30 p.m. week Omnty Constabulary, Oliver Parfitt, sergeant. There are days only & at Kilmersdon Pit Cottages cleared at 8 two const.ables stationed at Midsomer Norton & a p.m. week days only . sergeant & constable at Radstock, & a constable at each of the following places :-Coleford, Chilcompton COUNTY MAGLSl1RATES FOR KILMERSDON PETTY & Falkland SE8SIO~AL DIV:LSION. SCHOOLS. ByIton Lord, Ammerdown park, Bath, chairman Endowed SchooL-In 1719 the Rev. Thomas Shute gave a de Bla.quiere Lord, 3 Circus, Bath rent-charge of £20 towards the support of a school for Eatey John egg. St. 'Edmunds, Coleford. nea,!' Bath 40 children, & Mrs. Mary Freeman's gift, with Bayn- Broderip Edmd. esq. Cossington Manor ho. Bridgwater ton's & Sheppard's charity, bring in £7 12S. 8d.; this J3roderip Edmund }<'rancis esq. 7 York Crescent road, benefaction was further increased by an annuity of [,20, Clifton, Bristol given by the late Col. John Twyrford Jolliffe. In 1898, "Butler Samuel Evan esq. M.A. Caisson house, Combe by consent of the Charity Commissioners, this school Hay, Bath was amalgamated with the former National school, and Daubeney Wm. Arthur esq. M.~-\. The Clevelands, Dawlish is now called Shute's & JolIiffe's school; it has accom- Dickinson Robert Edmund esq. M.P. Coombe cottage, modation for 200 children (mixed & infants); average Lyncombe hill, Bath . attendance, 170; Berbert WiIliam Long, master Bylton Lord J.P. Ammerdown park; 6andy WaIter Tom, dairy farmer, mersdon pit) (A. E. Chivers, sec.; Merstham, Surrey; The Heath Charlton (postal address, Radstock, J. Coulthard Walton, manager; house, Petersfield, Bants; i& CarIton Bath) John Batey, consulting engineer) & Travellers' clubs, London SW Candy Walton, grocer Knox Edward, land agent to Lord Knox Edward J.P.; & CarUon dub, Carpenter Herbert, farmer, Orange &. Hylton London SW Greenhill farms McMinn David,forester to Lord ByIt·on TufneIl Rev. Frederick M.A. (vicar), Cox Emily (Mrs.), draper Noyce Sidney, head gardener to Lord Charlton house Cox John, beer retailer, CharIton ByIton Walton J. Coulthard, Huish house Cox John Robert, dairy farmer,Green's Parfitt Oliver, sergeant-in-charge, COMMERCIAL. farm, CharIton (postal addreu, Police station Candy Albert Tom, dairy farmer, Radstock, Bath) Purnell William Willcox, surveyor, &l Walton farm Cradock Herbert, dairy farmer, Low- inspector to Candy Alfred, dairy farmer,Hackmead field farm council, No. 2 district, Old Vicarage (postal address. Coleford, Bath) Garrett Tom Jamea, wheelwright, Read Samuel, plumber Candy Hy. Davis, farmer,Haydon frm blacksmith &. agent for agricultural Seymour Tom, Jolliffe Arms P.H. & Candy Herbert, farmer, Tyning farm implements good accommodation for cyclists & miller (water), Waterside mill Horler Oliver, shopkeeper, Charlton West James, dairy farmer, Manor frm Candy James (Mrs.), dairy farmer, (postal address, Radstock, Bath) Woolford John Chas. boot & shoe ma Ame's Lane farm Kilmersdon Golliery Co. Limited (Kil- Wyatt William, estate carpenter XIL,!tUNGTON parish, originally in , has Orders Confirma,tion (No. 3) Act, 1896" (59. and 60 been transferred to Wilts, under the provisions of Section Vict. c. 75), as from September 30, 1-896, Order made :54 of the "Local Government Act, 1888~' (51 and 52 Marca '23, 1896, numbered P. 1,226, and will be found in Vict. c. 41), by "Local Government Board's Provisional Kelly's Directory of tViltshire. XILTON-with-LILSTOCK is a parish formed residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, March 25th, 1886, by Local Government Board Order and held since 1891 by the Rev. Samuel Hunter Shedden 19,063, by adding to the parish of Lilstock part of the M.A. of Merton College, Oxford: Sir Alexander Fuller­ paorish of Kilton, the remainder being amalgamated with Acland-Hood bart. M.P. is the impropriator and has the Stringston and Holford, the new parish so formed being great tithes, of the value of about £70 yearly. George known a.s Kilton-with-Lilstock: it is in the We,stern divi- Fownes LuUrell esq. of Dunster Castle, who is lord of the sion of the county, hundred of Wiiliton and Freemanors, manor of Kilton, and Sir Alexander FulIer-Acland-Hood Williton petty sessional division, union and county court ba-rt. M.P. of St. Audries, who is lord of Lilstock manor, district, rural deanery of Quantoxhead, archdeaconry of are the principal landowners. The soil is a stony rush, Ta'l!lnton and diocese of Bath and Wells. with some clay; subsoil, marl and gravel. The crops are wheat, barley, oats, mangolds and turnips. The area is KILTON is a small village, I mile from the coast of 1,686 acres of land and 237 of foreshore; rateable value, Bridgwater Bay, 7 miles east-north-east from Williton including LiIstock, [,1,264, station on the West Somerset branch of the Great The population of Kilton-with-Lilstock in 1901 was 930 'WeSlternrailwayand 12 north-west from Bridgwater. The Sexton, Louis Evere;i. church of St. Nicholas, entirely rebuilt in 1862, is an Letters are received through Bridgwater, via Kilve, & for edifice of ,stone in the Early English. and Perpendicular southern portion of parish via Holford. Stogursey is styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an the neares tmoney order & telegraph office, 3~ miles embattled western tower containing- 4 bells, one of which, distant. Wall Box, near the Vicarage, cleared at 6.50 dated 1626, has the inscription, "!Sancte Ricarde, ora pro p.m. week days only no bis ": thert> is a handsome rood screen and an ancient stone font: the communion plate includes two silver National School (mixed), erected in 1856, for 40 children;1 b~o chalices da,ted 1514 and 1572 respectively: there are sit­ average attendance, 13, & supported voluntary rate; tings for 155 persons. The register dates from the year Miss Babb, mistress 1683. The living is a vicarage, with the rectory of Lil­ LH..STOCK (or Little Stoke) is a small village, con­ stock annexed by Order in Council 1st April, 18BI, joint taining a few scattered houses, on a headland on the net yearly value £252, with about 34 acres of glebe and Bristol Channel, 8 miles east from Williton station on the