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PosT & T. 0. Langford R.S.O. (Railway Sub-Office. Let- INSURANCE AGENT.-Royal Exchange, F. W. Keel, Emley ters should have R.S.O. East Somerset added).-John farm, Bourn Parker, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 8. IS a.m. ; . ( . d) . . dispatched at 4.45 p.m. Wrington is the nearest money N atwnal Sc~ool . ~1xe , . f~r 120 children , average atten- order office. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid I dance, 92 • Wdham Phllhps, master Burrington. Thatcher Mrs. Ellen, farmer Dyer Benjamin, haulier Abbott James, Rickford Lan ford Gallop Edward, farmer de Moleyns Rev. William Bishop M.A. g · Langford inn, agricultural, family & [prebendary of Wells], Vicarage [For other names, see CHURCHILL.] commercial hotel & posting house Keel Mrs. Rickford Burgess Miss (William Reeves, proprietor) ; wine, Parker ~amuel Llewellyn Evan Henry M.P., J.P. Lang- spirit & cigar merchant, emigration, Beacham Abraham, farmer ford court ; &Carlton club, London sw insurance & general commission Brown Samuel, farmer, Rickford Stanhope The Hon. Lincoln Edwin, agent ; picnics well catered for Cox Joseph, farmer Langford place Lawrence Edward, farmer Edgell John lsgar, farmer, Green farm Tyssen Capt. John R.N. Haylesbrook Lewis Charles, farmer & news agent Harding Richard, farmer, Bourn farm COMMERCIAL. Parker John, shopkeeper, & post office Jenkins Mrs. Elizabeth, shopkeeper Baber Henry, boot dealer Pearse -, farmer Keel Francis William, farmer & assistant Cording William, blacksmith Reeves William, see Langford hotel overseer, Emley farm, Bourn Champion John, boot & shoe maker Sharp Thomas, farmer Pimm Mrs. Mary Anne, shopkeeper Chapman Annie (Mrs. ),registr. of births Wilkins Charles, butcher Simmons Jas. shoe maker, Post office & deaths for the Blagdon sub-district Wilkins Henry, grocer & ironmonger . BURROWBRIDGE is an ecclesiastical parish, formed Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held since 1872 by the Rev. in 1840 from the civil parishes of Bridgwater, Lyng, Mid- Edwin Godson. Here is a Baptist chapel. On the summit dlezoy, North Petherton, Othery, Stoke St. Gregory and of an eminence here, called "the Mump," overlooking the Westonzoyland, and is situated near the junction of the Parrett, stand the ruins of a church, began in 1724 but rivers Tone and Parrett, 1! miles north from Athelney never completed, and forming a picturesque object visible station on the Dnrston and Yeovil branch of the Great for miles round. Mrs. A. K. Meade-King and Alexander Western railway, and 10 mi168 north-east from Taunton, in William Kinglake esq. B.A., D.L. are the principal land the Bridgwater division of the county, hundred of North owners. The soil is loamy, subsoil sand and red marl. Petherton, petty sessional division and union of Bridgwater, The chief crops are roots, beans, a.nd some land in pasture. rural deanery of Bridgwater, archdeaconry of Taunton and The population in 1881 was 421. ' diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Michael, Sexton, John Bastable. built by subscription in 1'838, is a plain building of stone, PosT OFFICE.-George Chinn, receiver. Letters through in the Early English style, consisting of chancel and nave, Bridgwater arrive at 7-5S a.m. &are dispatched at 6p.m. :and a small western turret containing one bell; the church The nearest money order & telegraph office is at North was restored in 1887 at a cost of £350, and has 440 sittings. Curry. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid The register dates from 1838. The living is a vicarage, National School (mixed),erected about 1840, for 90 children; yearly value £28o, with 4 acres of glebe, in the gift of the average attendance, 78; Edward Thresher, master • Godson Rev. Edwin, Vicarage Chinn Alfred, butcher House Richard, farmer COMMERCIAL. Chinn Geo. baker, grocer, & post office Keirle Mark, blacksmith Barnstable Lot, farmer Chinn Thomas, cattle dealer Kiddell Ernest, farmer Barrington Henry (Mrs.), yeoman Denning Richard, farmer Lee William, farmer Bastable Charles (Mrs.), butcher Dibble Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Lilly George, King Alfred P.Jt Bastable John, wheelwright Fear Waiter, farmer Lockyer George, yeoman Bell Thomas, shopkeeper Godley Richard, farmer, West Yeo Lovibond Matthew, farmet" Betty Henry, farmer Godfrey Waiter, farmer, West Yeo Millard Waiter, steam miller Betty William, farmer Goodson James, farmer & shopkeeper Peppard James, farmer Blagg George, farmer Goodson William, farmer Sealey John, farmer, West Yeo Boobyer Charles, tailor Hembrow John, farmer Tottle Henry, mason Broom William White, shopkeeper House Charles, yeoman Turner John, yeoman Brown William, farmer House Frank, yeoman Winchester Samuel, beer retailer BUTCOM::BE is a parish and village, 9 miles south-south- family of Budecombe, is now held by Thomas Clayton west from Bristol and 9 west from Pensford station on the Drake esq.; the manor of Aldwick is partly in this parish North Somerset branch of the Great Western railway, in and partly in that of Blagdon: there were anciently several the Northern division of the county, hundred of Hartcliffe- other manors in this extensive parish one of which was with-Bedminster, Long Ashton petty sessional division, held by the abbot and monastery of Flaxley, in Gloucester union and county court district of Axbridge, rural deanery shire, and another by the hospital of St. John in Brist