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DIRECTORY.] . ISLE ABBOTTS. 3Ui

Templemarl John, dairyman, Cross Wheadon R. P. &; Son Limited, general drapers, tailot"s Tre-Vett Brothers, butchers, West street & outfitters, millinery, mantle & dress making, Trott Alfred, cycle agent, Higher Horton hosiers, hatters, glovers, ladies' habit makers,. family Turner George & Sons, farmers, Peasmarsh mourning & funeral furnishers, Leicester house. T A Turvill Charles Edward M.R.O.V.S. veterinary surgeon, " Wheadon ; " T N 17 & veterinary inspector under the "Diseases of Animals Wheadon Edward, grocer, Silver street Acts" for the Petty Sessional Division, Wheadon Robert Poole, farmer Ditton street Wheaton John, dairyman, Higher Horton Walter Richard Tertius B.A. solicitor & commissioner Whitmey Stephen Francis, manager of the Wilts & for oaths & correspondent to the Ilminster & Ilminster Dorset Bank, Market place Without Council school managers, Silver st. T N 22 Wilkins William Thomas, butcher, Higher Horton Warry George William, civil engineer, surveyor &; in­ Willy Fredk. Wm. music & musical instrument dlr. Sea spector to the Ilminster Urban District Council, Dit­ Willy Thomas, rope & twine manufacturer, Sea ton street Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited (branch) (Stephen Way Henry, Swan hotel, Ditton street Francis Whitmey, manager), Market place; draw on Webber Annie (Mrs.), apartments, 9 Lawn terrace London County & Westminster Bank Ltd. London E C Webster Isaac, gamekeeper to Col. A. V. H. Vaughan- Windmill John Sawtell, china dealer, Market place Lee J.P. Dillington Wines James, Royal Oak P .H. Cross Welch Alfred, beer retailer, Ditton street Winter James, grocer, Cross Welch George, fishmonger, West street Winter John, coal dealer, West street West of Sack Co. J.im. (Bradford & Sons Lim. Wri~e Thomas, farmer, Horton agents), Station road Wyatt Ruth (Mrs.), haberdasher, East street West John, wheelwright, West street Yandle & Sons, cycle & motor engineers, Silver st. TN IB Young"Frank Gerald, saddler, Silver street is a village and pari11h on the river lie, 3 miles aged people. Within this parish was the ancient manor north from Ilminster station on the Chard branch of the house of .Merrifield, formerly the residence of Sir Nicholas Great Western railway, in the Bridgwater division of the and , founders in 1610 of the college county, hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, llminster petty of that name in Oxford: the moat and the basement sessional division, Chard union and county court district. portion of one of the towers are still in existence. Wm. rural deanery of llminster, archdeaconry of and Wyndham est}. of Dinton House, Salisbury, owns the diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Paul is an manor and chief portion of the land. The soil is clay edifice of stone in the Early Decorated and Perpendicular and gravel, and the subsoil is gravel. The chief crops styles, consisting of chancel with north aisle, nave, south are wheat, beans and oats. The area is I,668 acres; transept and a tower on the south side, adjoining the rateable value, £2,145 ; the population in 1911 was 32I ~ransept and containing 4 bells : the base of the tower in the civil and 353 in the ecclesiastical parish. forms a porch : in the arch of the north chapel are four By Local Government Board Order 16,420, March 25, brasses, including one with effigy in shroud to Nicholas r885, Boxstone Hill was transferred from Ilton to Seaving­ Wadham, ob. 15o8, son of Nicholas Wadham, captain of ton St. M11ry; by Order 17,647• Clayhanger was trans­ Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight, 14 Henry VII. ferred from to Ilton; and by Order (1498-9), who was grandfather of Nicholas Wadham, 16,42o, part of Ilton, known as Rapps, was amalgamated founder of W adham College, Oxford : the church was with Ashill for civil purposes. restored in 186o and has sittings for 250 persons. The Sexton, Alfred Me11d. register dates from the year 1642. The living is a vicar­ Post Office. Alfred Mead, sub-postmaster. Letters re­ age, net yearly value £r8o, including 12 acres of glebe, ceived through Ilminster at 7.15 a.m. & 5·35 p.m.; with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and dispatched at 8.25 a.m. & 6.55 p.m. week days only. Wells, and held since 1909 by the Rev. Ernest Henry Ilminster, 3~ miles distant, is the nearest money Vaughan-Jones, of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. The appro­ order & telegraph office priate tithe and glebe are of the yearly value of £Ioo. Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1875, for Here is a Wesleyan chapel. There are three charities, 8o children; average attendance, 54; Harry Beavan. of about £104 yearly value, and almshouses for I7 master Slade Mis!i Fewings John, farmer, Woodhouse Jeffery John Lumbard, jun. farmer, Vaughan-Jones Rev. Ernest Henry Gale Hugh Samways, dairyman Chapples farm, Ilford (vicar), Vicarage Goodland Joseph, farmer Marks Laurie (Miss), shopkeeper Goodland Morley Edwin, farmer, Ash­ Phippen Reuben James, Wyndham COMMERCIAL. ford farm Arms inn Beavan Harry, schoolmaster & clerk Grabham Albert, dairyman, Ashford Spiller Robert, farmer, Drake's farm to Parish Council Grabham Joshua, miller (water),Ash- Stanton Geo. agricultural machinist, Beck Frank, farm bailiff to T. L. ford mill dairy engineer, motor car repairer White esq. Newhouse Grainger William, tailor & agent for all the best implement Crabb Samuel Webb, farmer,Brough­ Hayman George, baker makers tons farm, Ilford Hayman Richd. wheelwright,Cad Grn Trott Charles, shopkeeper Dare John Robert, farmer, Cad farm Jpffery John, farmer, Woolmington Trump John, farmer, Mudges farm Downton Jas. farmer & assist.overseer farm, Ilford • ISLE ABBOTTS is a village and parish on the west and a parish room, restored in 1908. The charities bank of the ?iver Ile, 4 miles east from Hatch station amount to £5 4s. yearly. The soil is gravelly, and on the Chard branch and 7 south-west from the subsoil ig blue lias. The chief crops are· wheat, station on the branch of the Great Western rail- beans and oats. The area is I,191 acres; rateable way, and 4l north from Ilminster, in the Bridgwater value, £1,538; the population in 1911 was 207 in the division of the county, hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, ' civil and 294 in the ecclesiastical parish. llminster petty sessional division, Langport union and . . . . county court district, rural deanery •of Timinster, arch- s:rEw~EY, a. hamlet and ti_thmg b~longmg ~o thu deaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. parish, IS now mcorporated with Ashill for evil pur­ The church of St. Mary is a building of stone, in the poses. Perpendicular, Early English and Decorated styles, con- Sexton, William Symes. sisting of chancel, nave of five bays, aisl~,. south porch Post & Telegraph Office.-Miss Henrietta Drake, sub- and an e~battled western tower, contammg 5. bells: postmistress. Letters arrive through Taunton at 6.45 the font Is Norman: the tower was .restored m 1875 a.m. & 7 p.m.; dispatched at 7.15 p.m.; no delivery at a cost .of. £r,4oo, and th.e ~hurch m I909. at a cost or dispatch of letters on sundays. Hambridge, 4 of £2,ooo. 1t affords I8o sit~u~gs .• The l'~glSter dates miles distant. is the nearest money order office from the year 1561. The hvmg 1s a VIcarage, net . . . yearly value £ 210, with residence, and including I Pubhc Ele~entary School (~IXed), erected 1n r875, &-. acre of glebe, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter enlarged m 1901, for .65 ch1ldr~n; average attendance, of Bristol, and held since 1913 by the Rev. George 40; Mrs. Clara Martmdale, mistress Alexander Allan M.A. of St. Alban Hall, Oxford. Here Carrier to Taunton. Robert Adams, passes through is a Baptist chapel, erected in IBIS and restored in IB74• from , sat

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Perrin Mrs. Privet house Bicknell Benj. farmer, Bromes farm .Allan Rev, George Alexander M. A. Tapp Mrs Clarl•e Wm. Edwd. dairymn.Badbun­ (vicar), Vicarage COMMERCIAL. Crocker .Job, dairyman, Woodlands • Procker Joshua, The Laurels IBarrington Edwd. frmr.Northalls frm •