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Kelly's Directory 1875
ILE BREWERS is a village and parish, 136 miles from London, 6 south from Langport station on the Yeovil branch of the Bristol and Exeter railway, 5 north from Ilminster, and 10 east-by-south from Taunton, in the Western division of the county, hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, union and county court district of Langport, Crewkerne rural deanery, archdeaconry of Taunton, diocese of Bath and Wells, situated on the east bank of the river Ile. The church of All Saints is a Gothic stone building, rebuilt in 1861, having a chancel, nave, tower with spire, and south porch. The register dates from the year 1692. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £225, with residence, in the gift of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, and held by the Rev. Joseph Augustus Miller. There is a school for boys and girls, and a Sunday school held in the school-room. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is clayey, and the subsoil is sandstone. The chief crops are wheat, beans, and oats. The area is 1,243 acres; rateable value, £2,275; and the population in 1871 was 371.
Parish Clerk, John Young.
Letters though Taunton arrive at 7.30a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m. The nearest money order office is at North Curry
School, Miss Young, mistress
Miller Rev. Joseph Augustus [vicar]
COMMERCIAL.
Bond Thomas, miller & baker
Brown James, farm bailiff to John Ostler, jun. esq
Budge William, shoe maker
Dally Robert, shopkeeper
Grigg Edwin, dairyman
Humphreys William, farmer & teasel grower, Brandon farm
Jeffery Thomas, farmer
Manning Thomas, blacksmith
Mead Lewis, butcher
Ostler John, farmer, Bush Furlong farm
Ostler John, jun. farmer, Walrond park
Sansom John, shopkeeper
Small George, farmer
Smith John, dairyman
Snook John, carrier
Snook Robert, shopkeeper
Towning Samuel, thatcher
Walker Richard, beer retailer & tailor
Young John, teasel grower & farmer