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DIRECTORY • J . SOMERTO~. 419

the churchyard is a lych gate, erected in 1887, by sub. · sheep. The area is 2,135 acres; rateable value, £ 1,47 I ; scription, as a memorial to the late rector mentioned the population in 19n was I54· above. The registers date from I645, but are imperfect. Sexton, Robert Chubb. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £210, including 70 acres of glebe, with nsidence, in the gift of the Post Office. John Perry Palmer, sub-postmaster. Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held since I 9o6 by the Letters arrive from , Somerset, the post Rev. Harold Stanley Williams. The Bere charity, town, 9.25 a. m.; dispatched, 4· IS p.m. week days only. amounting to £5 annually, is distributed in clothing. r The nearest money order office is at Bampton (Devon), Henry Augustus Ferguson-Davie esq. of Bittiscombe 6 miles distant & Morebath (Devon), 3 miles distant, Manor, Upton, is lord of the manor and the chief land- the nearest telegraph office ' owner. The soil is loamy, and the subsoil shillet rock. Public Elementary School (mixed), built in I862 & en- The crops are oats, barley and wheat; some land is larged in I88I, for 6o children; average attendance, particularly suitable for the breeding and grazing of 32; Mrs. Elizabeth Purchase, mistress Jago Miss, Kimmings moor Eastmond Jn. farmer, Little Haddon Perrot John, tailor Williams Rev.Harold Stanley (rector), Heywood George, farmer, Chapple Purchase. Owen, farmer, Frogwell Rectory J ennings Francis, farmer, Pitt Stanbury Arth. farmer, Leigh Barton COMMERCIAL. Maunder Thomas, farmer, Townsend Stevens John, shoe maker Atkins William, veterinary surgeon Norman William, farmer, Gamblyn Westcott Frank, farmer,Haynes down Davey Albert, farmer, Surridge Palmer John Perry, shpkpr.Post office Yandle James, farmer, Haddon end

SOMERTON is a small town, on the and on the death of Edward, 4th baron, in I73S. were an­ on the high road from Wells to , with a station ciently connected with this place. Somerton Erleigh, on the and Durston section rail motor the property of Maj. Oharles Frederick Pretor-Pinney, car service of the Great Western railway, 125! miles of Saxmundham, Suffolk, is the residence of Capt. from London, 5 miles north-east from West Geoffrey Stanley Phipps Hornby. Somerton Court is station on the branch of the Great Western rail­ the property and residence of John Mainwaring Hall­ way, and 7 south from station on the Stephenson esq. M.A. The Earl of , who is Somerset and Dorset railway. Somerton is the head lord of the manor, and Maj. C. F. Pretor-Pinney are of a petty sessional division, in the Eastern division the chief landowners. The area is 6,610 acres of land of the county, Somerton hundred, Langport union and and Io of water; rateable value, £n,17I; population county court district, rural deanery of Ilchester, arch­ in I9II, 1,854· deaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The Sexton, Tom Gibbs. . town is paved, lighted with gas by a company from works in the town and supplied with water from the Somerton Post, M. 0. & T. Office, New street (Letters should and District waterworks. A court leet is held yearly in have Somerset added). Jesse Gillett Williams, sub­ October. The arrangements are under the control postmaster. The telegraph office is open from 8 a.m. of the county police. The church of St. Michael and to 8 p.m. ; sundays, 8.30 to IO a.m. ; savings bank, All Angels is an ancient edifice of stone in the Decorated money order & inland revenue business is transacted style, with Perpendicular additions, consisting of chancel, daily (except sunday) from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. De­ clerestoried nave, aisles, transepts, south porch and an liveries at 7 & 9.40 a.m. & 5 p.m. ; on sundays there embattled octagonal tower over the south transept, con­ is only the 7 a.m. delivery; dispatches at 9.40 & 11.20 a.m. & 4 & 8 p.m. ; sundays, 6.40 p.m taining a cloek and 6 bells: near the south transept is On sunday the office is open for the sale of stamps & a recumbent female effigy of stone of the nth century: telegraph business from 8.30 to 10 a.m in the north transept is a brass to Christopher Overton, Wall Boxes :-West street, cleared at II a.m. & 3·45 dated I683; the pulpit, of carved oak, is dated I6IS, & 8 p.m. on week days; sundays, 6.30 p.m. ; Lang­ and the communion table I626; the nave roof, of oak, is a splendid example of Perpendicular wood work of port road, cleared at II a.m. & 3·45 & 8 p.m. ; suo­ days, 6.30 p.m. ; Kingsdon road, cleared at 6.30 & that period : the organ was provided in I90I at a cost I0.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; sundays, 6 p.m. ; Sutton road, of £7oo: the church was restored in I889-90 at a cost of £3<>585, and the chancel at a further cost of £900, cleared at Io.45 a.m. & 3.30 & 7·45 p.m. ; sundays, defrayed by the Earl of Ilchester: there are !!ittings 6.15 p.m for 750 persons. The register dates from the year JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR THE PETTY SES- I697· The living is a vicarage, net yearly value {,2oo, SIONAL DIVISION OF SOMERTON. including 40 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of llchester, and held since I8g8 by the Alford Robert esq. Heale house, , Taunton Rev. George Thomas Steacy B.A. of Trinity College, Barrington Russell Henry esq. Herds Hill, Langport Dublin. The Congregational chapel was founded in Clark John esq. Knole farm, Long Sutton, Langport 1785 ; the present edifice, erected in I8o3, will seat 400 Richard Thomas esq. Earnshill, Curry Rivel, persons; the Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1846, and Taunton enlarged in 1905, has ~70 sittings and the United Dickinson Arthur esq. The Mount, Somerton Methodist chapel ISO ~;ittings: the Friends' meeting Eastlake Capt. Cha~>. Lock, Long Sntton house, Langport house, built in I876, will seat ISO persons ; and there Eastment Francis Meade esq. Drayton court, Curry are Salvation Army barracks holding 200. The Rivel, Taunton , 2 a.cres in extent, was formed in 1875, and Jenner Sir Waiter Kentish William hart. Lytes Cary, is under the management of the Parish Council. There Kingsdon, Taunton is an ancient market cross, dated 1673. and about 30 Knight James Towill esq. Bow street, Langport feet in height. In the town is a shirt collar factory and Neal Rev. John M.A. Kingsdon manor, Taunton a brewery, which afford employment to a considerable Pretor-Pinney Major Oharles Frederick, Fairfield house, number of people. Attached to the police station here, Saxmundham, Suffolk which is the headquarters of the constabulary for the Price Hermann Chicheley Augustus esq. Drayton, Tauntn Somerton district, is a court room, a consultation room, Rowe William esq. North street, Langport and a number of cells. The Institute, erected in 1901, Staley Alfred Evelyn esq. Coombe Hill house, Barton as a memorial to Lady Smith, partly by subscrip­ . St. David, Taunton tions, and from funds left for the purpose by the Trevilian Edwin Brooke Cely- esq. D.L. Midelney Place, late Col. William Pinney, is now used as a parish Curry Rivel, Taunton room. There are almshouses for four aged men, founded Trevilian Maurice Fearing Cely- esq. B.A. Wiltown in 1626 .by Sir Edward Hext, knighted at White­ house, Curry Rivel, Taunton hall, 12 May, 1604, and endowed with £so yearly; and Valentine Edmund William esq. The Old hall, Somerton other almshouses for widows, founded in 1866 by Mrs. The chairman, for the time being, of the Langport Scott Gould, of Moredon, North Curry: charities of £35 Rural District Council, is an ex-officio justice yearly value are distributed in kind. The Somerton Clerk to the Justices, Edward Quekett Louch, Oheap­ church-lands estate, consisting of certain lands and houses, side, Langport left at various times to defray the repairs and expenses Petty Sessions held at the Court House, Somerton & Town of the church, increases in value as the old leases expire, Hall, Langport (alternately), about fortnightly on and now (I913) amounts to about £200 annually. This mondays at n a.m. The parishes in the division arl\ was formerly the principal town in Somerset and the resi­ Aller, , Barton St. David, Charlton Adam,Charl­ dence of some of the Saxon kings, who had a castle here. ton Mackrell, , Curry Rivel, Drayton, afterwards made a state prison, and in which John, King , , , Keinton Mande­ of France, is said to have been confined by Edward Ill.: ville, , Kingsdon, , Lang­ the gaol was afterwards built upon the site. The Stawels, port, Long Sutton, Lydford East, Lydford West,Muchel­ Barons Stawel of Somerton, a title which became extinct ney, , Somerton &; Swell SOMERSET 27 •