132 BRADFORD. SO~IERSETSHIRE. Latcham Mrs. Trefuses cottage Bird William, miller (water) & farmer, Hembrow Francis, farmer, & clerk to Murch Mrs Bradford mills the parish council, Trefuses Sanders Benjamin, Springfield cottage Bull Job, mason NewberryJohh,miller(water),I<'ord mills Starkey Thomas, Heatherton park Burch John, farmer, Gardiner's hall Page Annie (Mrs.), dress maker Stone Thomas, Risdons BurchJohnFletcher,farmer,SmallEddish Penney Lione1, shopkeeper, Post office Williamson Major-Gen. Jas.Bradford et Chappell Wm.farmer, ThreeBridges frm Pounsberry Albert, baker COMMERCIAL. Crocker Samuel, mason Rendell Thomas, butcbet & farmer Beedell Mary Anne (Mrs.) & Sons, Dinham Henry ,family butcher & farmer, Robjohn'l Henry, blacksmith farmers, Heatherton Park farm Lower Stoford Rockett l''rank, saddler & harness makr Berry John Henry, farmer Easton William, farmer,. Ford farm & Staddon James, dairyman, Hele Braddick Brothers, wheelwrights Stone House farm, Hele Tucker Waiter, Victory inn WEST BRADLEY is a parish, 3 miles south from trustees of 1\h•. Thomas Maidment (who are lords of the, Pennard station on the and Dorset railway, 4 east- manor), and Messrs. T. H. Colston, William Allen, J. Bar­ south-east from and 7 west-north-west from rington and Henry Jenkyns are the chief landowners The­ Castle Cary, in the Mid division of the county, Glaston soil is clayey, and the subsoil is clay. The land is chiefly in Twelve Hides hundred, petty sessional pasture. The area is r,449 acres; rateable value, £2,8u; division and union. Wells county court district, rural the population in r8gr was-of West Bradley, with. deanery of Shepton Mallet, archdeaconry of Wells and Lottisham, 237, and of part of , joined to West. diocese of Bath and Wells. The church (dedication un- Bradley for church purposes, 296. known) is a building of blue lias stone in the Late Decorated Sexton, Waiter Harvey. and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave and a LoTTISHAM, 2 miles south, formerly a hamlet of , south porch with an embattled tower at the west end, was annexed for ecclesiastical purposes only to this parish. dating from about 1400, and containing a clock and 3 bells, in December, r879, by Local Government Board Order dated r6o6: at the east end of the chancel are image xo,252. The church of St. Mary, built in r878, is an brackets and two others on either side: there are remains edifice of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancer of a piscina, and on the north side the rood stair turret, and nave, and a turret containing one bell : there are 12<> lighted by one small window: the nave roof, though modern sittings. in appearance, is original, with additional mouldings: the Sexton, Frank Harvey. lower stage of the tower is vaulted: the church was partly Letters through Glastonbury, arrive at ro a.m. The nearest. restored in 185r and completely so in r874, when an money order & telegraph office is at , z organ chamber was added : there are sittings for r2o miles distant persons. The register dates from the year 1633. The WALL LETTER Box cleared at Lottisham at 5.25 p.m. &. living, which includes Lottisham, is a vicarage, net yearly at West Bradley at 5 p.m value £r:;o, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of A School Board of eight members was formed June I, r875,. Bath and Wells, and held since r888 by the Rev. Edward with East Pennard contributory sending three members; Rapson. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in r88x, and William John Pearce, Baltonsborough, clerk to the board seating 100 persons; the Bible Christian chapel was erected & attendance officer in r836 and has roo sittings. The tithe barn here, a struc- Board School (mixed), built in 1876, at a cost of £x,xo8, to iure of the rsth century, is supposed to have been erected hold Ioo children; average attendance, 66; William. by Richard Beere, abbot of Glastonbury r493-I524. The Jones, master 1\'Iaidment Albert, carpenter Lottisham. West Bradley. Maidment Thomas, farmer Candy Albert, farmer Banks Benjamin, Westbrook house Mitchell Brothers, bakers J ackson George, farmer Gare Josiah, Dovin Pearce William, farmer, Parbrook farm Maidment Joseph, yeoman Rapson Rev. Edward, Vicarage Rashleigh Alfred, farmer Martin Joseph, farmer Allen Thomas, dairy farmer Stride Henry, mason Pearce James, fanner Alien William, farmer & landowner Whitehead Thomas, butcher Reynolds Mont, farmer Golledge George, shoe maker Scott George, farmer NORTH and SOUTH BRADON formerly t:onsti- Wyndham esq. of Dinton House, Salisbury, and held since­ toted a parish, but under the provisions of the "Divided r88g by the Rev. George Alexander Allan M.A. of St. Alban Parishes Act," r882 (45 and 46 Vie. c. 58), it was absorbed I Hall, Oxford, who resides at Moreton house, Cheltenham. (March 25, 1885) into the parishes of Ile Brewers, Pucking- William Wyndham esq. is lord of the mallQr and sole land­ ton and Kingsbury Episcopi. The living is a sinecure· owner. The land is farmed by Messrs. T. B. Garland, B. rectory in the rural deanery of Ilminster and archdeaconry Goodland and S. Crabb, whose names will be found under of Taunton, net yearly value £86, in the gift of William Ile Brewers and nton.

BRATTON (BRATTON SEYMOUR or BRATTON ST. MAuR) situated on the south side of Bratton hill, and at present; is a parish, 3~ miles south from Bruton station on the occupied by Miss Ogden. John Hodges esq. who is lord Great Western railway, 2~ from Cole station on the Somer- of the manor, and Charles Penruddocke esq. F.R.G.s., D.L., set and Dorset joint railway and about 3 west from Win- J.P. of Compton Park, Salisbury, are the chief land­ canton, in the Eastern division of the county, Norton Ferris owners. Soil and subsoil, clayey in the valleys and sand hundred, Wincanton petty sessional division, Wincanton on the hills. The chief crops are corn and roots. The area union and county court district, rural deanery of Bruton, is r,443 acres, with part of Charlton Musgrave, added by archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. Local Government Board Order 18,995, March 25, r886; The church of the Holy Trinity, rebuilt in 1830, consists rateable value, £r,8oo; the population in x8gr was eccle­ of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western siastical, ru, and civil, r66. tower, with pinnacles, containing 3 bells: there are sittings Parish Clerk, John Hill. for roo persons. 'Ihe register dates from the year I754· The living is a rectory, net yearly value £140, including 56 Letters through Wincanton arrive at 8 a. m. The neares~ acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of Charles Pen- money order & telegraph office is at Wincanton, 3 miles ruddocke esq. and held since rs97 by the Rev. Henry Lee. distant. Letters are collected by the postman on hts Bratton House, the residence of Charles Penruddocke, return at night jun. esq. J.P. is a fine stone building standing on rising WALL LETTER Box cleared at 5·55 p.m. week days; sun- ground near the church. Holbrook House is the residence day at 10 a. m of Charles Barton esq. J.P. Bratton Lodge, the property The children of this place attend the schools at Shepton of Charles Penruddocke, jun. esq. is a modern mansion Montague & Maperton Barton Charles J.P. Holbrook house Ogden Miss, Bratton lodge Howes Charles, farmer, Holbrook farm (letters received direct from Win- Penruddocke Chas. jun. J.P. Bratton ho (letters received direct from Win- canton) Greenhill Job Usher, farmer canton) Cook Major William, Seymour villa Hill James, farmer Swanton William, farmer Lee Rev. Henry, The Rectory Hodges John, farmer & landowner Young George, farmer & road contractr BREAN is a parish and small village, on the estuary sessional division and union of Axbridge, county court of the river Axe, which flows out on the east side of the district of Weston-super-Mare, rural deanery of Burnham, Brean Down peninsula into the Bristol channel, 5 miles archde wnry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The north from Burnham, 9 south from Weston-super-Mare chur~h of St. Bridget is a plain building of stone in the and 4 north-west from Brent Knoll station on the Bristol Latflr Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north and Exeter section of the Great Western railway, in the porch and a low western tower with a saddle-back roof Wells division of the count.y, hundred of Bempstone, petty containing 3 bells: the church '\\"as restored in 1883 at a