DlHECTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. CHARDSTOCK. 1191 Cope Rev. Joseph Staines, Vicarage KentWm.Dngdale,farmr.·WestChaldon Talbot Robert. farmer, ·West Chaldon Bascombe Thomas, miller (water) &. Parnell Henry, dairyman Tod John Ford, farmer farmer, Tadnell mills Parne George, carpenter Tarlor David, farm bailiff to Messrs. Harris Robert, Sailor's Return P.R Pitman William, shopkeeper Thomas Stevens & Sons,Vicarage frm Jackson Edward, farmer, West Fossil Sturmey Edward, blacksmith CHARDSTOCK is a parish and village, situated on a years old, and is presumed to have been the summer peninsula, between the counties of Devon and Somerset, palace of the Bishops of Salisbury. The principal land­ 2i miles west from Chard Road station, 3 south-south-west owners are Lord Henley, of Watford, Northampton, who is from Chard, 4 north from Axminster. 9~ north-west from lord of the manor, and John Churchill Stuckey Langdon Lyme Regis, in the Western division of the county, Bridport esq. of Parrock Lodge, Chard, and the trustees of the late and Thorncombe petty sessional division, hundred of Bea- Richard Thornton West esq. The chief crops are wheat, minster Forum and Redborne, ~xminster uniou and county barley, oats and apples, and some land in pasture. Th3 (:ourt district, rural deanery of Bridport Lyme portion, soil is chalk and clay in parts. The area is 5,089 acres; archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The ri\"er rateable value, £7.3°1; the population in 1881 was 1,328 ; Kit runs through the village and joins the river Axe at Axe the population of All Saints parish is 485. farm. The church of St. Andrew, consIsting formerly of ALSON, I mile south; and TYTHERLEIGH, half-a-mile (:haneel and nave only, was rebuilt and enlarged in the year south-east, are hamlets in this parish; CROWLEY has for 1864, with the addition of a north aisle, south porch, organ civil purposes been annexed to Membury. (:hamber, and vestry on the south of the chancel and a Sexton, WiIliam Bond. chapel: the architect has contrived, most ingeniously, to combine in one building the styles of various periods, it CHARDSTOCK ALL SAINTS is an ecclesiastical p:nish, being the wish of one liberal benefactor to this WOI'k that the formed out of the parishes of Chardstock and Axminster. east end of the chancel should be erected in what was sup- part of the parish being in De\'unsbire. Thechurch, erected posed to be the style of the original edifice, destroyed many in 1840 , is a building of stone without any architectural pre­ years ago, viz. Early English: this has been carried out in tension, cDnsisting of ch:mc>l, nave and western turret con­ a very beautiful three-light lancet window, decorated with taining one bell: there are 180 sittings. The register dates stained glass: the north side is Early Decorated; the south from the year 1840. The li.ing is a rectory, gross yearly is in the Perpendicular, but all combine harmoniously, value 1:280, including 40 acres of glebe, with residence, in while the interlacing of Bath, Bishop's Lydiard and Ham- the gift of the Bishop of Salisbury, and held sinc~ 1875 by den Hill stone in arches and windows, the decorations of the Rev. Charles Woodcock ~I.A. late student of Christ the chancel with marbles from Devonshire and Cornwall, Church, Oxford, and prebendary and canon of Salisbury. and an exquisite reredos of Caen stone, ornamented with Letters through Axminster, which is the nearest money pillars, bosses and interlayings of marble, form a good order & telegraph office, arrive at 8 a.m specimen of modern art: the western tower contains a peal ·WALL LETTER Box, at Smallbriclge, cleared at 5 p. m of 7 bells and a clock with the Cambridge chimes: there are Sextons, Charles Seward and Hichard Frome. slttings for 300 persons. The parish registers date from the POST OFFICE, Chardstock.-'VIlliam French,sub-postmaster. year 1590, and are in excellent preservation. The living is Letters are received from Chard at 7.20 a.m. & 5. IQ p.m. ; a discharged vicarage, net yearly value £300, with residence. dispatched at 7.25 a.m. & 5.45 p.m. The nearest money in the gift of the Bishop of Salisbnry, and held since 1883 order & telegraph office is at Chard. Postal orders are by the Rev. Frank Parham M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. is~ued here, but not paid The charities amount to about £IOO yearly, derived from WALL LETTER Box, Tytherleigh, cleared at 5.30 p.m Mead's and White's charities left in land and funded pro- SCHOOLS:- perty, the former distributed by feoffees who are copy- National (mixed), built in 1830. for 150 children; average holders of the manor, the latter distributed by the vicar and attendance, 100; Miss Emily Brazier, mistress (:hurchwardens. The old Court, now the property of Lord Chardstock All Saints, rebuilt in 1870. for I IQ children; Henley, exhibits numerous traces of Early English and average att~mdance, 86; Miss l\Iatilda Beale, wistress; Norman aI-chitecture, some portions of the present building, Miss Frances Seward, infants' mistress with what is now a barn, being upwards of six hundred Police Station, Joseph Elliott, constable-in-charge Chardstock. Marks Richard, farmer, Bowditch farm Wale In. Rt. jun. & Js h. jun. f.lrm3rs :Bentley John Cox, Fordwater Miller Elias, confectioner Tytherlei' h. Hentley Mrs. Fernham cottage Newberry Andrew,basket ma.Fordwatr :\IiIler WilIiam :Bentley Thomas, Fordwater Newberry George, carpenter · Loud James, butcher, Tytherleigh hill Deane Mrs. Park cotta!!'e ~New berry J 0 Ilo, dalryman ~ P . J h fT' t Miller Geo.farmr.Low. Tytherleig-h frm Eames Mrs. T. P. Cotley arrIS 0 n, arlner, WIS - . El' ("11" s ) It dl D k Perryman John, wheelwright Kin!!' Capt. ·Wm. J.P. Bowditch house P1tITIS Iza _ur. ,pou ry r. ur's ~ Pa . Jose h t'l D k Pomeroy Geor!!'e, farm3r Parham Rev. Frank M.A. Vicara!!'e~ ITIS p, al or, ur s v Pryer Miss, Kewhouse P'arrls Thos. George mn,. & whI'ee wrlght Roberts John, farmer ' d t t Stoodlev John, blacksmith Rodd Edward Stanhope, Chardstock hl' Pearce ElI, roa con rac or J Pe ham Georo-e l' d tat Toms William, T~·therleigh Arms P.H WoodcJck The Misses, The Lodge r l::>' oa con r c or J Perring Ezra, farmer. Hakes COMMERCIAL. Poole Jacob, farmer, Hook farm Chardstock All Saints. Anning John, dairyman Pratt John, farmer, Bewley [Postal addreEll, .A.xmineter.] Apsey John, farmer, Hook Rattenbury Benj. farmer, Honey hill Clarence Mrs. Coaxdon hall :Beasley George, tailor SewardWm.farmr.Millway &Fordwater Woodcock Re\". Charles M.A. [preben­ Beer Thos. baker & farmer, Goselford Sirl John, farmer. Beacon hill dary & hon. canon], Rectory llevis Abraham, miller (water) & Smith George, dairyman, Whitehouse Woodgates Rev. James Richard M.D. assessor of taxes, Hook mills Somers John, tailor Coaxdon hall :Bond Williamkshoe maker Somers Robert, mason COMMERCIAL. llonfield Harry, blacksmith Spiller Edward, farmer, Ridge hill Apsey Robert, farmer, Axe farm Bllssell James, farmer, \,",ootton farm Turner George, shoe maker Carter WilIiam, horse dealer, Churchill Chubb John, blacksmith & farmer, Vicary Samuel, beer retailer Causley Charles, shopkeeper Bailey down 'Walden George, farmer, Yarde Corr Joseph, farmer, Sandford farm Deane John, farmer, Ridge farm ·Wale Robt. & Jsph. farmers, Court frm Dare Samuel, farmer Deane Joseph, farmer, Reed's hill ·Wale Robert, steward to Lord Henley, Dorset Lime, Cement & Stone Co. Deane Robt. shoe maker & beu retailer Court farm (Samuell\fallatt, manager), Coaxdon Denning James, frnit grower & farmer, ·Watts "'alter, shopkeeper & carpenter Gregory James, carpenter Holbrook farm ZealIey Arthur, miller (water), Chard- Griffin Clement (Mrs.), dairy, Coaxdou Eames Thomas Deane, farmer, Cotley stock mill Griffin John, farmer, Wag.>platt farm Eames Wm. Deane, farmer, Lodge farm Alson. lVIaofield James, carpenter French Wm. grocer& drapr. &post office ~fanfield Thomas, farmer, Undercleav-e French William, j un. shopkeeper Bentley Wi!liam, farmer Marley Edwin, farmer & blacksmith. Genge Thomas, butcher Deane Richard, farmer IIl\'Iarley Tom Edwill. f.irmar Goff Robert. mason Long John, farmer Miller Benjamin, farmer, Knight's hrm Grabham John, farmer, The Cottage Miller J oseph, assistant (ll'"erseer :\lorrish Henry, miller (water) Grimster Hy. farmer, Chardstock farm Pope John Guscott, dairyman Parsons Henry, tailor Hull Robert. thatcher Phillips Henry, farmer Jeffery William, dairyman & farm Crowley. PhiHips James, farmer, ChmchiIl bailiff to T. D. Eames esq Smith John Potter Henry, beer retailer Larcombe John, farmer Bond George, farmer, Hares farm Rockett James, farmer, Battleford Larcombe John, jobbing gardener , Bontield Jas. wheelwright & blacksmith SneH Robert, farmer Long Frdk. Da3iel, farmer,Fanvay frm Phillips William, farmer, GilIetts Rp:ter Frederi ok, farmer, CJa'tdon.