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Kelly's Directory 1875
ILTON is a village and parish, 137 miles from London, 2 north from Ilminster station, in the Western division of the county, hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, Chard union and county court district, Crewkerne rural deanery, archdeaconry of Taunton, diocese of Bath and Wells, situated on the river Ile. The church of St. Peter, restored in 1860, is in the Early Decorated style, having a chancel and north chancel aisle, nave, north aisle, with south transept: the tower is on the south side, adjoining the transept, and serves for an entrance: this arrangement renders the general outline of the building very striking and picturesque. The register dates from the year 1642. The living is a vicarage, annual value £300, with residence and 14 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held by the Rev. William Marshall, M.A., of University College, Oxford. There is an appropriate tithe and glebe, of about the yearly value of £300. There is a school for boys and girls, and there is a Sunday school held in the school-room. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. There are charities of £104 yearly value, and almshouses for aged people. Within this parish lies the ancient manor of Merrifield, formerly the residence of Sir Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham, founders of the college of that name in Oxford: the moat and the basement portion of one of the towers are still in existence: there is a brass in the church to the memory of a son of Nicholas Wadham, Captain of Carisbrook, in the Isle of Wight, 14 Henry VII.: he was the grandfather of the above-named Nicholas Wadham, founder of the college. The Countess of Egremont owns the manor and chief portion of the land. The soil is stone rush, and the subsoil is gravel. The chief crops are wheat, beans, oats and flax. The area is 1,719 acres; rateable value, £3,066; and the population in 1871 was 450.
POST OFFICE.- Jacob Player, receiver. Letters are received through Ilminster, which is also the nearest money order office; delivered at 9.30 a.m.; dispatched at 4.55 p.m.
School, Miss Goodland, mistress
Marshall Rev. William, M.A. Vicarage
COMMERCIAL
Adams John, carpenter
Adams William, carpenter
Bindon John, farmer, Cad's farm
Bond John, farmer, Ashford farm
Bowerman David, farmer
Bradley John, farmer
Caines Charles, shopkeeper
Churchill john, farmer, Rapps
Crabb Samuel, farmer, Ilford
Dight James, baker
Downton Thomas, farmer, Rapps
Eames James, farmer
Goodland Ann (Mrs.), machinist, Rapps
Goodland John, farmer, Burleaze
Goodland Sampson, butcher
Grabham Joshua, miller, Ashford mill
Jeffery John, farmer, Ilford
Jouxson Chrlt. (Mrs.), Wyndham Arms
Jouxson Edwin, shoe maker
Matravers George, dairyman
Michael Henry, shoe maker
Parsons John, dairyman
Pratt Robert, farmer
Slade William, farmer, Ilford
Spiller Robert, farmer
Tratt Joseph, blacksmith
Trump Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer
Webb Robert, shoe maker