DIRECTORY. J SO :\IERSET. DITCH EAT. 237

in that of Crosoombe, and is the property of J. Gallo~ Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1851, by way esq. James Curtis Somerville, & now the property of A. F. • Se1ton, James Drew. Somerville esq. with residence for the mistress, en­ Post, T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.-Mrs. larged in 1884 and again in 1907, for about 70 chil· Anna Hull, sub-postmistress. Letters through Wells. dren; Miss Amiee Cox, mistress Croscombe is the nearest money order office

PRIVA-TE RESIDENTS. - COMMERCIAL. Hallett Waiter, farm bailiff to A. F. Carritt Mrs. Dinder cottage Brook Isaac Norton, fa~rm~er & land­ SomPrville esq. J .P Derrick William Henry, The Cottage own~r, Churchill house Hull William, estate carpenter Galloway James, Sharcomoo park Bungay .Joshua, gamekeeper to A. F. James Amy Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Mortimer Philip, South lodge Somerville esq. J .P l:pper farm Porcher Rev. Prebendary Geo:ffrey Croker Oliver, farmer, Crapnell Keevil Allen. head gardener to A. F. Lionel M.A. Rectory Oroom Laura B. (Mrs.), fa..,rm"" er, Somerville esq. J.P Somerville Arthur Fownes J.P. Din~ Lower farm Metcalfe John, gardener to James -der house Down Hubert ErnPst, farmer, Middle Galloway esq. & estate mason farm Norman William Henry, farmel" Norman \VilHam James, beer retailer

DINNINGTON is a parochial chapelry, on the road George, 'joint net yearly value al:Jout £240, and resi~ between and , 4! miles north~west dence, in the gift of Earl Poulett, and held since 1913 from Crewkerne station on the main line of the London by the Rev. Frank Shelmerdine 1J.A. of Trinity College, and South Western railway, and 3! south~east from Il~ Cambridge, who resides at Hinton St. George. The minster, in the parliamentary division, hundred United Methodists have a chapel here. Earl Poulllltt is of , petty sessional division of Ilminster, lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is union of Chard, county court district of Crewkerne, rural light and sandy. The crops are wheat, barley and oats. -deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of and The area is 584 acres; rateable value, £843; population diocese of Bath and Wells.. The chapel of St. Nicholas is in 191 I, 123. a small building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, Sext-on, Mrs. Charles Brice . .consisting of chancel, south porch and a western turret Letters through Crewkerne. Wall Letter Box cleared containing 2 bells: it was restored in 1863 and affords week days only. Hinton St. George is the neare~t .sittings for 130 persons. The register of baptisms dates money order & telegraph office, 1 mile distant from- 1592; marriages, 1752; burials, I733· The living The children of this village attend the school at Hinton is a chapelry, annexed to the rectory of Hinton St. St. George Tozer Mrs Hutohings Hy. (Mrs.), frmr. Pitt fm Slocombe Thomas, farmer COMMERCI..H,. "Manning Fredk. Rose & Crown P.H Tozer Georg-e, farmer, Knott's farm Dunell William, farmer, Pondhayes is a village and parish, on the river-Alham, Dublin. The Priory, originally attached to the abooy of which divides the hamlet of Alhampton from the rest of , and then used as a residence by the abbots, the parish, and bounded on the south by the , is the propsrty and residence of Major~Gen. Richard 1! miles south~west from Evercreech Junction station on Langford Leir-Carleton; it is a fine large building the and Dorset joint line (Midland and South in the Gothic style, with a stone roof, and stands in Western railway), 2 north from station on a well~timbsred park, and was erected in 1473 by the main line of the Great Western railway and II John Gunthorpe, Dean of Wells and private chaplain south~east from Wells, in the Wells parliamentary to King Edward IV.; it was moated and had large division, hundred of Whetstone, petty tithe barns and buildings; although it has ooen much sessional division and union, Wells county court district, restored the old features of this ancient house have rural deanery of Shepton Mallet, archdeaconry of Wells been carefully preserved; the finely~carved oak sereen and diocese of Bath and Wells. The village is well in the outer hall records the names and arms of supplied with spring water by gravitation from a successive rectors since 1433. Here is a Wesleyan reservoir at Milton, which yields 2o,ooo gallons per chapel. Linsey, cheese-cloth and bandages are woven day. The church of St. Mary Magdalene is an elegant here at works belonging to Mr. T. G. Vincent. In a edifice of blue lias stone, in the Perpendicular style, field, at a short distance from the village, is a petrify­ with traces of earlier work, and consists of chancel, ing spring, called the "Holy Well." Charles Hill Dawe -clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, transepts, south esq. is lord of the manor, and with Major-General -porch, and an embattled central tower with a bold Richard Langford Leir-Carlet.on, is principal landowner. QCtagonal stair turret at the north-west angle and small The rector for the time being is lord of the manor of pinnacles, and containing a clock and 6 bells : the whole Abbey. The soil and subsoil are various, principally exterior is embattled and the parapets of the nave and clay and mar!. Most of the land is in pasture. The aisles are relieved by crocketed pinnacles springing area is 3,692 acres of land and n of water; rateable from carved corbels along the string course ; the sides value, £8,251 ; the population in I9II was 705. and angles of the entire fabric are strongly buttressed; By Local Government Boord Order IO,l<'!52, Dec. 19, 1879, the church was originally Norman, and one small the hamlet of Lottisham was transferred from this parish window of this period remains: in the 13th century to . the chancel was enlarged, and in the following century, Parish Sexton, Edwin Clark. about 1350, both chancel and nave were raised, the former Post, M. 0. & T. Office. Mrs. Mary Bartlett, sub-post­ acquiring by this change its double ranges of windows ; mistress. Letters through Bath to Evercreech, thence on the parapet of the chancel are the initials of John by cycle post Selwood, abbot of Glastonbury 1456-93: the piers and ALHAMPTON is a hamlet, I mile south, on the border arches of the central tower appear to belong to the Early of the river Alham. Here are the remains of an old cross. Decorated period and the lower stage has fan-traceried A. small mission church was erected here in r8g2. Major­ vaulting; access to the tower is curiously obtained by a General R. L. Leir-Carleton is lord of the manor. covered stair construct.ed on the exterior east wall of the north transept, across the roof of which the tower turret WRAXALL is a hamlet, I mile west. is then approached; the nave retains a fine tie beam roof with some original colouring; the transept roofs are SUTTON is a hamlet, 2 miles south from the church. similar: the pulpit and reading desk are Jacobean: a sun­ Wraxall.-Letters through Shepton Mallet arrive at 8.30 dial remains in the poroh and there are sittings for 400 a.m. Wall Letter Box persons : in the churchyard is an ancient stone cross 12 Wall Letter Boxes.-Arthurs Bridge; Alhampton k feet in height. The register dates from the year 1562. Sutton The living, which is a rectory, is a rectorial manor of Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1874, at a the Abbey of Glastonbury, net yearly value £519, with cost of £1,300, for 150 children; Rowland James residence and 86 acres of glebe, in the gift of Major- Knight, master. The school is controlled by six Gen. R. L. Leir~Carleton, and held since 1917 by the managers, appointed in 1913; W. E. Leversedge, ReT. Henry Howard Tripp M.A. of Trinity Colle~, Evercreech, correspondent DITCHEAT. Leir-Carleton MajAr-Gen. Richard Vincent Thos. Gi:ffo-rd, Laburnnm vil. Lar.gford J.P. & the Baroness Welch Mrs PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Dcrchester, 'fhe Priory COMMERCIAL. Banks Mrs. Laurel cottage Tripp ReY. Henry ]loward M.A. Barber Alfd.Gerald, frmr.Rectory frm Barber Mrs. Prospect house (rector), Rectory Bartlett Mary (Mrs.), draper & grocer, Golledge Mrs Turner Fredarick Becker, Manor house Post office

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