DIRECTORY.] SOMERSET. LONG ASHTON. 31 5 bells: it was partially restored in 1882 at a cost of STEWLEY, a hamlet 1! miles north, formerly a par' £6so, and has 185 sittings. The registe-.. dates from the of Isle Abbotts, and Rapps~ 1 mile east-, taken pm-tly from year 1558. The living is a rectory, net yearly value Broadway and partly from Ilton, were, March 25, 188'5, [.2oo, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath under the provulions of the " Divided Parishes Act," incor­ and Wells, and held since 19o6 lby the Rev. Morgan John porated with this parish by Local Government Boo.rd Gri:ffiths B.A. of Durham University. In the parish is a Orders 16,420 .and 17,648 respectively, and by Order chalybeate spring, which has been found serviceable in 17,647• another part of Broadway was amalgamated with diseases of the digestive organs and scrofulous com· this parish. plaints. Jordans is the seat of Waiter Banning Speke Post Office.-Walter William Sheppard, sub-postmaster. esq. J.P. lord of the manor and chief landowner. Letters arrive from Ilminster at 7 a. m. & S. 15 p.m. ; William Wyndham esq. of Dinton House, Salisbury, is dispatched at ro a.m. & 7.20 p.m. week days only. also a landowner. The soil is stonerush and clay; sub­ The nearest money order & telegraph 1lffice HI at soil is clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, Hatch Bea.uchamp, 2! milet:! distant oats, peas and boons. The acreage is 2,740; rateable Wall Letter Box, Thickthorn, cleared at 10.5 a m. &; value, £3,846; the population in 19n was 469 in the 7.25 p.m. week days only civil and 321 in the ecclesiastical parish. Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1842 &; enlaxged in 19II, fOT 90 children; average attendance, Parish Clerk, now (1913) vacant. 65 ; Miss Alice Pile, mistress Carrier to Taunton. Andrew Baker, sat • PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bragg Waiter, farmer Marshall Malcolm Charles, farmer, Dicks Mrs Brinson Tom, farmer, Cage bush Thickthorn Griffiths Rev. Morgan John B.A. Brown Fred, shoeing & general smith, Matravers George, farmer, Hastmgs (rector), Rectory Catherine wheel Matthew James, farmer, Southtown Hawks Major Frederick Welman Chic~ W~llia~ Albert, wheelwright, Mear Alfred, farmer, Rowlands Helliar Frederick Ashill house Wmdm1ll Hlll Mear Herbert, dairyman, Rapps Marshall Malcol~ Charles Thickthorn Churchill Tom, farmer, Rapps Oborne Maria (Miss), shopkpr Rapps Palmer Francis Wood cou'rt Davis Fred, cowkeeper, Wood Palmer Francis, yeoman, Wood court Speke Waiter Hanning J.P. Jordans Den~an Frank, dairyman, Shrubbery Pounsberry Wm.Jn.frmr. Stewley frm Wilson Robin, Stewley lodge dauy Sheppard Kate (Mrs.), shopkeep~r Filer Enoch, farmer, Windmill hill Sheppard Waiter William, cal'venter, COMMERCIAL. Forward Edwd. farmr.Windmill Hill & sub-postmaster Adams Robert, farmer, White House Grigg William, farmer, Folly farm Slade Elizabeth (Mrs.), Ashill inn farm Hancock William, farmer, Ashton Trump Aaron, boot :tnaker, Hastings Baker Andrew, caxrier Helliar John, farmer Warfield Arthur, dairyman, Rowlands Bickley Edward, farmer Howat·d William, farmer, Southtown Warfield James, farmer, Rapps Bickley Susan (Miss), assistant over- Hull Waiter, farmer, Forest farm Warry Edwin Thomas, beer retailer, seer & clerk to ParishCouncil,Rapps Kinglake John, farmer, Stewley Windmill Hill Bicknell Edward, farmer, Rapps Lillycrap Wm. blacksmith, Stewley Wright Henry, farmer, Southtown Lock Frederick James, baker Wright Robert, farmer,Windm1ll Hill ASHINGTON is a village and parish, bounded on the The living is a rectory, annexed in 1876 to that of Chil­ east by the river Yeo, 3 miles east-south-east from Ilches­ ton Cantelo, joint net yearly value £210, with 25 acres ter and 4 north from Y eovil station, on the Great Western of glebe and residence, in the gift of John William and London and South West-ern raliways, in the Southern Goodford esq. of Chilton Cantelo, and held since t884 division of the county, Stone hundred, Yeovil petty by the Rev. Montague Charles Goodford M.A. of Trinity sessional division, union and county court district, rural College, Cambridge, who resides at Chilton CantelQ. deanery of Merston, arohdeaconry of Wells and diocese of The Manor House, the property of Mr. W. H. Co~. Bath and Wells. The church of St. Vincent is an ancient is an ancient Elizabethan mansion. Mr. William edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south po,rch Hurman Cox, who is lord of the manor, and Col. R. A. and a small western belfry containing 2 bells ; there was Sanders M.P., J.P. of Baxwick, are the principal ~and­ formerly in the chancel a slab, incised with the effigy of a owners. The soil is clayey, and the subsoil is clay and knight in armour of the early 14th century, of which only gravel. The land is all pasture. The area is 523 acres the upper portion remained; the left arm, bearing a sPmi­ of land and 6 of watm'; rateable value, £659; the cylind:rical shield, exhibited a bend fllilily, possibly repre­ population in I9II was 36. llenting the Raleigh family; round the margin of the slab Sexton, Stephen Butler. was a defaced inscription; this slab has not been in the T.etters received through Dchester, which is the nearest church ~ince 11875, and was missing at the time of the money order office, at 8 a.m. & 4·45 p.m. Mudford, annexation of the livings: in the nave are remains of 1! miles distant, is the nearest telegraph ~ffice ancient glass : all the windows in the chancel are stained: the church was completely restored in 1878 at a cost of Pillar Letter Box, near the church, cleared at 9 a.m. & £760, when the chancel and porch were rebuilt: there 5·5 p.m are 6o sittings. The register dates from the year 1567 Children attend the school at Chilton Cantelo Cox William Hurman, farmer, Manor house I Wall Cornelius, farmer, Middle farm LONG ASHTON is a long straggling village and Smyth, and held since 1910 by the Rev. Russell James large parish, the head of a petty sessional division and Hill M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Here is a union, and is in a richly-wooded vale, between the ridge Congregationlll chapel, founded in 1792, with 152 sit­ of Dundry on the south, and a stretch of high tableland, tings, and a room where the Plymouth Brethren meet. composed of mountain limestone, on the north; the im­ The Church House, built in rgo8 by Lady Smyth, will posing cliffs, which confine the waters of the Avon at hold 300 persons. The charities, amounting to over Clifton, overlooking it on the east; the village is about [300 yearly, have been consolidated, and are now dis­ a mile from Clifton Bridge station on the Bristol and tributed by trustees. The village club was built in Portishead line of the Great Western railway and 3 1879 by the late Sir J. · H. G. Smyth bart. In the miles west-south-west from Bristol, in the Northern parish are stone quarries and an extensive coal mine. division of the county, hundred of Hartcliffe with Bed­ Ashton Court, anciently the residence of the Ashton minster, Bristol county court district, rural deanery of family, to whom the estate was granted by Richard Chew, archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of Bath and II. is now the seat of Lady E. F. Smyth; the mansion,. Wells. The church of All Saints is an ancient structure the principal front of which was designed by Inigo in the Perpendicular style, consisting of a chancel J ones, is a large and handsome edifice, and stands in with north and south chapels, nave of five bays, aisles, a beautifully wooded deer park. Lady Smyth is lady north porch and an embattled western tower, go feet of the manor and the principal landowner. The I! oil high, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 8 fine bells : is sandy clay and almost all in pasture ; ~ubsoil, the­ the nave and aisles are divided from the chancel by new red sandstone. bounded on the north by the lime­ screen work; there are many tablets to members of the stone -and on the .south by the lias formations. The Smyth and other families, and in the north chapel is a area is 4,188 acres of land and 2 of water~ rateable beautiful and elaborate monument of stone to Richard value, [25,076 ; the population in Igii, including 12& Choke, appointed a Justice of the Common Pleas Sept. inmates and 16 officers in Long Ashton workhouse, walt 5, 1461, and who died in 1486: the church was restored 2,128 in the ~vil and r,856 in the ecclesiastical pa:risb in 1872 a.t a cost of [4,000, and has 400 sittings. The (which includes part of Bristol). register dates from 1661. The living is a vicarage, net Sexton, John Ayres. yearly value £26o, with residence, in the gift of Lady Providence is a hamlet of Long Ashton.