206 DOWN SIDE. S(J}lERSETSHIRE. (KELLY's RESIDENTS AT ST. GREGORY's CATHOLIC, Knight Rev. William Osmund Andrews William, dairyman, Old MONASTERY & COLLEGE. Morrall Very Rev. John Alphonsus Norton Hall farm [Letters through Stratton-en-Fosse.] [sub-prior] Bown Isabel Winifred (Mrs.), dairy Almond Rev. Thomas Leo New Rev. Henry Wilfred B.A farmer, Downside farm Banckaert Rev. Florimond Conrad Suter Rev. Bernard Maurus Bown James, dairy farmer Birt Rev. Henry N orbert Jones Emma (Mrs.),beerretlr.&haulier Burton Rev. Thomas Aldhelm Benson Mrs Martin John, Redan inn, & grocer Butler Rev. Edward Cuthbert M.A Coles Frederick, The Grange • New Rock Colliery (F. Spencer J.P . Fowler Very Rev. Jn. Clement [prior] Leay Rev. William M.A. Vicarage proprietor; Dan Morgan, manager) Fulton Rev. Francis Meinrad Plummer Mrs. Rock house Oram John, miller (water), Benter mill Gasquet Rev. Francis Aidan Short John, Downside lt>dge Page Constance I. (Miss), home for Geary Rev. William Gabriel Smith Mrs. Broadway young ladies of weak intellect, Down- Borne Rev. Percy Ethelbert Turner Lt.-Col.Mansfield J.P.GlenView side lodge Kendal Rev. John Edmund D.D COMMERCIAL. Savage Edwin, tailor, Oak cottage Kindersley Rev. George ..Elred Ashman John, Naish's Cross inn Urch Wm.grocer & draper, N ettlebridge DRAYCOT is a hamlet and ecclesiastical parish, formed Cheddar and the rector of Rodney Stoke alternately, and March 25th, 1862, out of the parishes of Cheddar and held since 1888 by the Rev. Thomas Harold Frederick Hickes Rodney Stoke, situated between those two villages, with a M. A. of Pembroke College, Oxford. There are Bible Christian station on the Cheddar valley branch of the Great Western and Wesleyan chapels. There is a charity for the second railway, about 4 miles east-south-east from Axbridge and poor of this district, of about £3oo a year; this includes 132 from London : the parish includes NYLAND with Cobley's charity of £32 for education. A fair is held here BATCOMB, which are in Rodney Stoke civil parish and in on th~ second Monday in September. The land belongs to Axbridge union, and is in the Wells division of the county, various small owners. The soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The petty sessional division and union of Wells and county court land is chiefly in pasturage for dairy purposes. The area of district of Axbridge, Axbridge district of the rural deanery the parish is 1,8oo acres, "and the population in 1881 was and archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and 593; of which Nyland has 590 acres and 44 inhabitants; Wells. The church of St. Peter, erected in I86o-I, and rateable value of Nyland, £1,833. consecrated on the 1st of August, 1861, consists of apsidal Sexton, William Star. chancel, with vestry, nave, transepts, withshorteasternaisles, PosT OFFICE.-Henry Spencer, sub-postmaster. Letters south porch and a bell-cote on the eastern gable of the nave, received from Cheddar R.S.O. at 7 a.m.; dispatched at containing 2 bells: the pulpit is of stone and the communion 7 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Cheddar. table and lectern of oak : a font, of Caen stone and marble, The telegraph office is at the railway station. Postal is richly carved, and has on its four sides figures in high orders are issued here, but not paid relief emblematical of "Infancy," "Youth," "Manhood" INSURANCF. AGENT.-Lancashire, H. Spencer and "Old Age :" there are four stained windows, three of Parochial School (mixed), built in 1866 on a portion of the which are in the apse, and represent events in the life of glebe adjoining the churchyard, for 120 children; average St. Peter: in 1887 the church was relighted with handsome attendance, 81; Thomas W. S. Sellick, master; Mrs. H. brass lamps, at a cost of £35 : there are 240 sittings. 'l'he S. B. Sellick, mistress ; Miss E. Thackthwaite, infants' living is a vicarage, net yearly value £266, including 6 mistress acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Railway Station, William Hallett, station master / Harding Mrs Cooper George, boot & shoe maker Rood Charles, pork butcher Hickes Rev. Thomas Harold Frederick Cooper George Sheldon, boot maker Sargent Alfred George, boot maker M.A. The Vicarage Cooper Ellen(Mrs.),milliner & dress ma Smith John, farmer Higgs Miss CourtArth.dairy frmr.&grazier,Nyland Spencer Edwin, farmer Hill Robert Dove Daniel, coal merchant Spencer Frederick, farmer Labdon Rev. Peter [Bible Christian] Edmunds William, painter &c Spencer Henry, auctioneer, Post office Star George Gardiner Albert Hugh, tailor Spencer James, market gardener Thompson Edmund Goodall James, farmer Standfield George, farmer Toogood Mrs Grimstead George, farmer Star George, solicitor Hann William, carpenter Star William, stone quarry owner COMMERCIAL. Hill Edward (Mrs.), farmer 8ymes Edwin, blacksmith Arney Edwin, farmer, Batcombe Hill James, farmer, Nyland Vowles Stephen, dairy farmer Brown Thomas, tarmer Hill John, farmer Vowles Thomas, farmer Bull James, farmer Lee Stephen, farmer Wall Joseph, farmer & market gardenr Card Edward, cattle dealer Lukins Alfred, dairy farmer Watts Thos.&Son, stone quarry owners Card Gilbert, cattle dealer Lukins Cornelius, butter dealer Watts George, mason Chapman George Philip, quarry own::~r Lukins Henry, mason &c Watts Thomas, jun. mason & builder Chappell William, sen. farmer Lukins Tom, mason & bldr. Myrtle cot Weeks Jesse, draper & grocer Churches Edward, farmer & landowner Pearce Jonathan, Railway hotel ·weeks Samuel, farmer Churches George, farmer Pimm William, blacksmith White John, baker Churches Thomas, farmer Popham Henry, dairy farmer & grazier, Williams Geo. farmer & mark t. gardnr ChurchesThos.jun.RedLionP.H.& farmr Far Nyland Williams Tom, market gardener &c Collard Cornelius, butcher & shopkpr Reeves Thomas, wheelwright & farmer 1 Wyatt Joseph, market gardener DRAYTON is a parish and village, situated on the river from the interest of £1oo, given by Mr. Hart in 1832. Ile, which flows into the Parrett on the south-east side of Midelney Place, the seat of Edwin .H. Cely Trevilian esq. parish, about a mile from the village, 2 miles south from .J.P. stands on rising ground to the north of the village, I Langport station on the Dunston and Yeovil branch of the mile from Langport station, Great Western railway. The Great Western railway, in the Southern division of the house, which has been lately built, is named after an old county, Abdick and Bulston hundred, Ilminster petty ses- manor situated about I mile south of the village. Stan­ sional division, Langport union and county court district, chester House is the seat of William Webber Munckton esq. Ilminster district of the mral deanery of Dunster, arch- coroner for the Western division of Somerset. Edwin B. • deaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The Cely-Trevilian esq. J.P. William "\Vebber Munckton esq. and church of St. Catherine is an ancient building of stone, in Francis Meade Eastment esq. J.P. of Surbiton Hill, Surrey, the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of three are the chief landowners .. The soil is chiefly clay and stone bays, south aisle, south porch and an embattled western rush in one part ; the subsoil, limestone. The crops are corn, tower containing 5 bells : it formerly had a Norman porch pulse, flax, turnips, potatoes and mangold-wurtzel. The which was replaced by one in the Perpendicular style: there acreage is 2, 166 ; rateable value, £3,254; the population is a good east window containing stained glass representing in 1881 was 448. the "Resurrection" and our Saviour as the "Good Shep Parish Clerk, James Woodborne. herd:" the church has sittings for 23° persons. The regis- Letters through Curry Rivell & Taunton delivered at 7.30 ter date3 from the year 1558. The living is a vicarage, a. m. ; dispatched at 6.45 p.m. The nearest money order gross yearly value £300• part paid by the Ecclesiastical office is at Curry Rivell & telegraph office at Langport Commissioners and the remainder from the rent of 47 acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of WALL LETfE.R Box cleared 6.40 p.m.; sundays Io.so a.m Bristol, and held since 1848 by the Rev. Walter Alford M.A. Parish school (mixed), erected in 185o, for 100 children; of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. There is a charity, derived average attendance, 42; Miss S. Matthews, mistress Alford Rev. Waiter M.A. Vicarage Munckton William Webber (coroner of Trevilian Edwin B. Cely- .r.P. Midelney Bull Benjamin, Stanchester cottage ·west Somerset), Stancbester house place [Postal address, Curry Rivel, Matterson Maj.Wm.Key,Draytoncourt, Nor<q:~an Henry Burfol'l:l_,, ' 'faunton} . .