7 376 OTTl<~RFORD. SOMERSET. [KELLY S PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. Mixed, Bishop:s Wood, built in 1S74, at a CQst of about Thomas Cousins, attendance officer. £3oo, for 8o children; average attendance, 40; Miss. Council (mixed), built in ISS2, to hold 120 children; CatheTine Wheeler, mistress average attendance, 41; Mjs. Mary Gibson, mistress Carrier to Taunton. John Sparks, from Otterford, sat OTTERFORD. Loosemore Edward John, farmer, Rull BISHOP'S WOOD. Brook-King Reginald, Widcombe (let- Ma.rtin Frank, farm~r, Higher Fyfet Craigie Rev. John Alexander M._.\ ters through Taunton) Matravers Mark, dauyman,Waterayes (vicar), Vicarage Matthews Dan, shopkeeper Morrant Sidney Mission house COMMERCIAL. Pike James, farmer, Lower Fyfe·t ' Pinnell William, gamekeeper to W. COMMERCIAL. Aplin Edmund, farmer, Grigs N. Black esq.(letters thro'Taunton) Brewer Edwin, New inn Board Albert, dairyman, School farm Pym Dan.. farmer, Rock house & Denning George, farmer, Post office. Cuff Ann (Mrs.), farmer, W arrins Rooks farm Evans William, grocer Grabham Levi James, farmer,Church Shire Alfred, farmer, Lower Watley Goodland John, Pitland farm farm (letters through Taunton) Sparks Abraham, farmer, Watley Lock John, farmer, Underdown Harris John, dairyman, Martin's Sparks John, carrier & shopkeeper Saturley William, farmer, Woodend Hartnell Wm. farmer, Mt. Pleasant Spiller William, miller (water) ::lumption Frederick, baker Hayse Henry, farmer, Wallend Westlake Waiter, farmer, Yalham Willie John, blacksmith Hunt Henry, Holmen Clavel inn (letters through Taunton) with is a parish value, £2,9S2; the population of the parish in 1911 was: on the west bank of the river Parret, 3! miles from its civil, 421; ecclesiastical, 402 (which comprises parts of mouth and 7 miles north-west from B!idgwater stations Otterhampton, Cannington, and Stocklaml on the and Exeter section of the Great Western Bristol civil paris·hes). railway and on the S"Omerset and Dorset joint rail- Sexton, George Ballam. way, in the division of the county, western Lettel'S are received through Bridgwater, via Cannington,. division of Oannington hundred, Bridgwater pebty 8es- about 7.45 a.m. & 5.50 p.m. The nearest money order sional division, union and county court district, rural & telegra.ph office is wt Canningllion, 2 miles distant- deanery of Quantoxhead, archdeaconry of Taunton and w 11 L tt B 1 d t & 6 k diocese of Bath and Wells. Under the provisions of the I a e er ox c eare a 7·5° a.m. ·35 p.m. wee days only "Divided Parishes Act, 1SS2," the whole of Combwich is now included in this parish, and -the hamlet of Stea.rt, OOMBWIOH is a village and chapelry on the west bank 3 miles north-north-east, formerly belonging to the ad- of the , three-quaa'tel'S of a mile south-eas~ joining parish of , is also included for from Otterhampton church; in 1870 a portion of Can­ civil purposes only. The church of All Saints is an ancient. ningtvn parish was annexed for ecclesiastical purposes. building of stone, in the La-ter English style, consisting but this cbapelry is now for all purposes in the parish of chancel and nave, south porch and an embattled of Ot!terhampton. The church of St. Peter, a chapel ot western tower containing 4 bells, rehung in 1s94 : the ease to Otterhampton, erected in 1S7o, is a building of chancel was erected about 1s44 : there are marble stone in the Gothic style, and conSiists of chancel, nave. tablets to the mem{)ry of various members of the transepts and a tower on the soruth side, with spire, andl Everard family, and to the Rev. Dr. John Jeffery, 67 containing a clock and 5 bells: the base of the tower years rector of the parish (1 s04_71 ): there is also a forms a porch: a carved oak and walnut lectern, the work. tombstone with an incised cross: in IS94 the chancel and design of the Rev. C. G. Anderson, rector IS?I-gS, was restored by the Rev. c. G. Anderson, rector 1s71 _9s, was placed in the church in 1SSg: there are sittings for at a cost of £18o, and the nave by subscription at a CQst of 25o persons. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in IS38,. £ 230 : there are sittings for 1do persons. The churchyard and originally a Congregational chapel, affording about was enlarged in 1S91 at a cost of £105. The register dates 100 sittings. from the year 1636. The living i.s a rectory, with the Sexton, Frederick Ballam. chapelry of Combwich annexed, net yearly value £2oo, Post Office.-William Stone Parsons, sub-postmaster~ including 19 acres of glebe, and £3o yearly for St. Peter's, Letters arrive through Bridgwater at 7.10 a.m. & 5.15 Combwich, with residence, in the gift of Capt. · A. R. p.m. ; dispatched at 9·35 a.m. & 7.40 p.m. ; no delivery Guy Everard, and held since rS9S by the Rev. Samuel on sundays. Cannington is the nearest money order &. Rees. Dr. J effery's charity of £6 Ss. yearly is distributed telegraph office, 2 miles distant by the Parish Council in the church porch to the deserv- is a haml61t 3 miles north-north-east from Otter- ing poor of the old parish of Otterhampton. In 1BSS hampton church. Mrs. Jane Evered left £3 annually, to be given to six County Police Station, Sidney Catley, constable aged poor of the old parish. Hill House is the seat Public Elementary School (mixed) (under the control of Capt. Andrew Robert Guy Ev~rard J.P. who is lord of of the County Council), for So children; average- the manor and principal lando,mer. The soil is clay, attendance, 4S; Miss Mary Russell, mistress. Con- and the subsoil is limestone. The crops are wheat, nected with the school is a penny bank barley, oats and beans, with a considerable portion of Carriers to Bridgwater.-Henry Cornish, daily; & Fredk. pasture land. The area is 2,023 a·cres of land, 2 of J William Lock & James H"Ouse, man. wed. & sat. (twice} water, 52 of tidal water and 126 of foreshore; assessable OTTERHAMPTON. COMBWICH. Combwich & District Farmers' .Asso­ Everard Oapt. Andrew Robert Guy ciation Ltd. (William Peter Davey .. J.P. Hill house Cornish William sec.), corn & coal merchants Leigh Misses, Walford house Rees Rev. Samuel (rector), Rectcry­ Duck et Edwin J ames, farmer Stone Henry, Steart Leigh Mrs. The Towers Fear Albert, farmer Leigh Oliver, Bryn Hyfryd COMMElll]!AL. Fear Henry, grocer & butoher Cornish Henry, carrier Williams Charles Thorne, Belvedere Haste Andrew, carpenter Herniman Thomas Triggol, farmer & Hunt Elizabeth (Mrs.), baker assistant overseer COMMERCIAL. Johns .A.lice Eliza (Mrs.), beer retailr Hill Richard J ames, farmer Bacon George, dairyman, Bolham Leigh Hy. & Son, coal mere. & frmrt; Lock Frederick William, carrier Bryant Sidney James, builder Manchip John, beer retailer Lott George, farmer, Steart Colthurst, Symons & Co. Ltd. brick Ma.Mhip William, Anchor P.H Pearce Thomas, farmer [ makers (Clifford Symons, manager) Quick Henry, blacksmith Sayer Charles, farmer Silke Victor, baker PAULTON is a populous parish and healthy village in 1839, is an edifice of Bath stone in the Early English between the high roads from Bristol and Bath to Wells, style, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, organ 1! miles south-east from Hallatrow station on the Bristol chamber, vestry, north porch and a western tower, with and North Some!'set branch of the Great Western railway handsome parapet and four pinnacles, and containing a and 2 north-west from Midsomer Norton station on the 1 good clock, erected in 1874 at the cost of the late Miss S(Jmerset and Dorset railway, 10 11outh-west from Bath, Julia Hill, and 6 bells, five