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234 DULVERTON. SOMERSETSHIRE. [ KELLY'S Hammond Richard, deputy-supt. regis- ~ational Provincial Bank of England Staddon Robert, land agent, auc trar, Workhouse Limited (branch) (Mason Allerton, tioneer, surveyor, valuer & agent for Harding W ebber Lewis, farmer ,Higher- manager) ; draw on head office, I 12 the Alliance Assurance Co. British coombe Bishopsgate st. within, London E c Law &; Imperial Live Stock Insur Harding Richd. farmer, Lower Chilcott Nicholas Robert, Rockhouse inn, & anee Association Limited & assessor Hawker Hy. bill poster & jobbing gardnr saddler & harness maker of Queen's taxes ; & at Fore street, Hawkins William, builder & collector Norman Annie (Miss), farmer, Higher Hampton, Devon of Queen's ta~es & poor rates Chilcott Stimson W. A. tailor,seeMoore& Stimson Hayes William, farmer, Rtddlers Page Robert, machinist& coach builder Stone John, registrar of births & deaths, Heath Edward, china & glass d('aler Parkhouse ElizabeLh (Mrs.), New inn & vaccination officer for Dulverton Hepper Wm. Hoskin, farmer, Ashway Parminter Edwin, tailor sub-district & relieving officer,& regis Hidon James, mason Parminter Thomas, carpenter trar of marriages for Dulverton umon Hill Edward, shoe maker Perry Robert Harding, tailor, breeches Summers Harry, butcher Hill William, farmer, Ashill maker, ladies' & gentlemen's tailor, Sydenham George Francis M.R.c.s.Eng. Hold Albert, police sergeant draper, hosier, hatter & outfitter, surgeon, medical officer & public Hooper Henry, farmer, Hinam Fore street vaccinator, No. r district, Dulverton Hooper John, farmer, Halscombe Puttock Peter, carpenter union, & certifying factory surgeon ; Howe Mary Ann (Mrs.),farmer,Shiltons Quick William James, Refuge a.ssurance medical officer to Great Western Husson Sidney A. hotel proprietor, see agent, Northmoor road Railway, Battleton house Victor & Husson Radley Richard, baker & confectioner TaP.p David James, farmer, Broford King William, farmer Rawle Richard, bailiff to the Rt. Hon. Tarr John Hill, farmer, Fore street Kingdom James, mason, Fore street Sir T. D. Acland hart. Ash way Thorne Edwin, baker Lamb family & commercial hotel & Receiving Office (J. C. Wall, carrier) Thorne John, farmer, Old Bury posting house (Victor & Husson, pro- Roberta William George, family Thorne William, shoe maker prietors). See advertisement grocer & provision dealer, High street Tout George, White Horse P.H Lock E. & Son, shopkeepers & butchers Ross Francis Gordon, accountant, clerk Tout Henry, umbrella repairer Lock Arthur Thos. farmer, Stockholm to commissioners of income & land Victor & Husson, Lamb hotel. See Luard & Chapman, solicitors, Fore st tax:, Milverton division advertisement Moore & Rtimson, tailors Scott James, miller (water), Lower mill Warren Robert, miller & baker, Manor Moore John, deputy-registrar of births, Seldon Ernest E. M.R.c.v.s. veterinary water mills deaths & marriages surgeon, Ivy cottage West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry (A Moyle John Alderton, Red Lion family Slade Amelia (Mrs.), dress maker squadron) (Capt. J. P. T. Alien, & commercial hotel & posting house Slape Thomas, carter commanding : Sergeant-Major Lark, Nelder CharlesWilliam,CarnarvonArms Sm1th W. H. & Son, news agents, Rail- drill instructor) family hotel & posting house, Dulver- way station • Wood Fred, baker ton station ; excellent trout fishing Stacey George, watch maker Yandle John Culverwell, farmer, Perry to visitors m the rivers Exe & Barle; Stevens Charles, land agent to the Rt. Yates Geo. Albert, chemist & news agt & at Edgcott hotel, Exford Hon. Earl of Carnarvon, Weir DUNDRY is a. parish and village on a range of hills, or Here is a Baptist chapel, built in r828. The charities rather on one vast hill, 790 feet above the level of the sea, 3~ amount to £9 ros. yearly. Here are quarries of freestone of miles south-east from l'lax Bourton station on the main line a very durable character. Miss Colthurst is lady of the of the Great Western railway and .5 south-west of Bristol, manor. The principal landowners are William Adlam esq. in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Hartcliffe F.S.A. of Chew Magna, and the Bristol Charity Trustees. with Bedminster, Long Ashton petty sessional division, The soil is loamy; the subsoil is of oolite formation. The union of Bedminster, county court district of Bristol, rural chief crops are wheat, barley and roots, and there is much deanery of Chew, archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of Bath pasture land. The area is 2,799 acres; rateable value, and Wells. The church of St. Michael, rebuilt (with the £6,401; the population in r89r was 631. exception of t.he tower) in r86I, is a substantial edifice of By Local Government Board Order 16,5oo, March 24, stone, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a r884, Barrow Common and another detached part of Win fine embattled western tower of Perpendicular date, with ford was transferred to this parish. pinnacles, and containing 8 bells : the tower was built in the Parish Clerk, George Payton. reign of Edward VI. by the :Merchant Venturers of Bristol, PosT OFFICE.-Mrs.Elizh.Barnes,sub-postmistress. Letters and being lofty and situated on so high an eminence forms from Bristol arrive at 6.45 a. m. & 6 p.m. to callers; dis- a conspicuous object for many miles round; in r89o the patched at 6.30 a.m. via Chew Magna & s.ro p.m.; pinnacles wer; restored at a cost of about £400: all the same time on sundays. Pt>stal orders are issued here, windows are stained : in the churchyard stands an ancient but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office cross raised on four stone steps, the total height is about is at Chew Magna, 3 miles distant 24 feet: there are sittings for 300 persons. The register WALL LETTER Box, East Dundry, cleared at 4.20 p.m.; & dates from the year 1560. The living is a vicarage, net West Dnndryat 4.50 p.m yearly value £r32,with residence and 3 acres of glebe, in the National School (mixed & infants), built in 1857• for 108 gift of the vicar of Chew Magna, and held since 1892 by the I children; average attendance, 77 Rev. Herbert Fletcher Mann B. A. of Hatfield Hall, Durham. Griffin Benjamin S. East Dundry Gallop William, farmer Marshall William, farmsr, Littleton Mann Rev.Herbert Fletcher B.A.[ vicar], Gillett Alfred, farmer, Keedwell's farm Pearce Ann (Mrs.), Dundry inn Vicarage Golding John, Carpenters' Arms P.H Pow William James, WinfordArmsP.H Roberts William Henry, East Dundry Griffin William, farmer & landowner, Pugh Waiter, beer retailer Rossiter Henry John, Highridge house East Dundry Russell George, farmer, Littleton Shorland James Hellier, The Grove Hale Henry, blacksmith Smith Frank, farmer, Littleton brm coMMERCIAl.. Hardwick Joseph, farmer, East Dundry Sweet Charle~, farmer Ball Stephen, hay dealer Harris Jehu, farmer Sweet John, farm bailiff to E. Shellard Blinman Samuel, assistant overseer Harrison Charles, farmer, Hill farm esq. Upton farm Bt·ock. James S. wheelwright Harrison Joseph, farmer, Hillside farm Sweet Wm. farmer, Polly House farm Hrock John, farmer, East Dundry Harwood Samuel, shopkeeper ~weet Wm. Geo. farmer, Elton farm Clements Henry, mason Keedwell William (Mrs.), farmer· Walker Benj.dairyfarmer, East Dundry Clements Frank, stone mason Knight Samuel, farmer, Walnut farm Weaver Israel Ja.mes, farmer, Littleton Cox Alfred, boot & shoe maker Lovell Charles, jun. farmer, Littleton Weaver James, farmer Fowler John H. farmer, Littleton Marshall Eleanor(Mrs.),farmr.Littleton Webb Ja.bez, shoe maker Gadd Elijah, mason Mars ball Henry, farmer Withey Thomas, farmer, Castle farm Gadd John, mason Marshall John, farmer,Barrowcommon Young Edwin Charles, farmer Gallop George, farmer Marshall John Isaac, farmer DUNXERTON is a village and parish, ll miles north- building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, east from Camerton terminal station of a branch of the consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled Great Western railway from Hallatrow, and 2! north-west western tower, with pinnacles, containing 5 bells: the corn from Wellow station on the Somerset and Dorset. joint rail- munion table is of oak with richly carl-·ed panels of cedar: way, 5 south-west from Bath and 4 north-north-east from all the windows are stained, the east window being a Radstock, in the Frome division of the county, Wellow memorial to the Rev. Frederick Grosvenor, 25 years rector hundred, Weston petty sessional division, Bath union and of the parish; and there are some good specimens of ham county court district, rural deanery of Midsomer Norton, mered ironwork, notably the pulpit, which stands on an arch deaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The alabaster base : the church (with the exception of the tower) Somersetshire canal through, and a small rivulet was rebuilt in x859, and has sittings for 150 persons. The waten part of the patish. The church of All Saints is a register of baptisms and marriages dates from 1748 ; .