MARK - information extracted from Kelly’s 1914 Directory of Somerset
MARK is a village and parish on the road from Highbridge to Wells, 3 miles north-east of Bason Bridge station on the Somerset and Dorset Railway, 4 east from Highbridge and 10 north east from Bridgwater.
The abbots of Glastonbury had a court house in this parish.
Rev F. K. WARREN M. A., Col. C.E. WHITTING, A. P. EDWARDS, Esq., Misses COUNSELL and Mrs ROBERTS are the chief landowners.
The soil is clayey; the sub soil in lias. The land is nearly all pasture. The area in 4,927 acres of land and 17 of water; rateable value £13,155
The population in 1911 was 925 in the civil parish and 917 in the ecclesiastical parish. The parish is divided into two districts, called East Mark and West Mark respectively, and contains the following hamlets, with their distances from the Parish Church.
- Northwick, 1½ miles west-north-west;
- Southwick, 2 miles west-south-west;
- Vole, 2½ miles north-west;
- Yard Wall. 1½ mile west-south-west
- River Bridge, on the River Brue;
- Perry, immediately adjacent on the north-east
- Harp Road, 1½ miles west-north-west;
MARK is part of the
- Wells division of the County [Somerset],
- Axbridge Petty Sessional Division,
- County Court District of Axbridge,
- Rural deanery of Burnham,
THE CHURCH
The Church of St Mark (Holy Cross) is an interesting building of stone in the Early English and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave of six bays, aisles, north porch and a western tower with turrets containing a clock and six bells.
The church was restored in 1875 at a cost of £1,000 and again in 1904, at a cost of about £2,000 and has 400 sittings. The register dates from the year 1647.
The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £250, including 25 acres of glebe with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and has been held since 1910 by the Rev Guy Lauder FITZMAURICE B. A. of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
Non-Conformist
The Wesleyan Chapel, erected in 1796 and restored in 1893 at a cost of £150, is a building of stone in the Gothic Style and will seat 280 persons
The Baptist chapel, erected in 1866 is also of stone in the Gothic Style and has 150 sittings
THE School
Public Elementary Schools, -
Mark (Church of England) (mixed) enlarged in 1890 for 123 children; average attendance, 90 and endowed with £23 10s yearly
School Master – Edgar Loftus MILLARD
School Mistress – Mrs Kathleen MILLARD
Mark Causeway (Church of England) (girls and infants) erected in 1875 for 100 children, average attendance 46
School Mistress – Mrs DOOLEY
Post
Post & Telegraph Office - Mark, Letters arrive from Highbridge arrive at 7.50 a.m and 5.35pm Letters are dispatched at 8.55 a.m and 6.35pm, weekdays only The nearest Money Order Office is at Mark Causeway
Sub-Postmistress – Miss Anne WEBBER
Post & M O Office - Mark Causeway , Letters arrive from Highbridge arrive at 6.40 a.m and 4.45pm Letters are dispatched at 9.20 a.m and 7 pm , weekdays only The nearest Telegraph Office is at Mark
Sub-Postmaster – John DAY
MARK
Private Residents
FITZMAURICE -Rev Guy Lauder B. A. (rector), Rectory
Commercial
BAGG - Jane (Mrs), poultry dealer
BAKER - Charles Wm., Pack Horse P. H.
BAKER - William, farmer, Plash
CHAMPENEY – Chas, famer, Perry Farm
COMER - & Co. farmers, Totney farm
COMER – Mary Ann (Mrs), farmer
COX – Jeffery, Plash Farm
COURT – Fdk. Jas., farmer, The Laurels
DUCKETT – William, Farmer, Splot Farm
FROST – Wilfred Gilbert, Grocer
GOODMAN – Arthur, Grocer
HAM – John, Contractor
HAWKER – Alfred, Grazier, Elm House
MOON - & Co. Farmers, Mill Batch Farm
MOON – Walt, Aukland, Farmer Satfield Farm
PARKER – Frank, Plumber
PETERS – Susan Ann (Mrs), Farmer, Mark House
PETHERAM – H (Mrs.) Farmer, King’s Way
PUDDY – Henry, Coal Dealer
SAUNDERS – John, Shopkeeper
SHEPPARD – Walter, Farmer, Stook House
VOWLES – Herbert, Farmer
WEBBER – Sarah (Mrs), Dressmaker
WENSLEY – Jas., Agricultural Implement Manufacturer
MARK CAUSEWAY
PRIVATE RESIDENTS
ASH, - John C
BAGG -The Misses, Alma Villa
COLEMAN - Mrs
MOON – Miss
COMMERCIAL
COOMBES – James (Mrs), farmer
DAY – Albert & Sons, Iron Founders
DAY- Henry, poultry dealer
DAY – John, Grocer, Post Office
DRAKE – Richard, Baker
FEAR – Frank, Farmer
FEAR – Robert, Farmer
FISHER – Jonas, Farmer & cattle dealer
FISHER – Samuel, Farmer
GULLIDGE- Frank, Boot maker
HOUSE – Henry Allen, farmer
ISGAR – Walter, Farmer, Wainsbridge Farm
JONES -Frank, Cow keeper
LATCHAM – Sidney, Farmer
MOON -Edgar, farmer
MOON - Thomas Henry, farmer
SHEPPARD – Ernest, Baker
STEPHENS – Thomas, Carpenter
SWEET - Albert, Farmer
TUCKER - Ernest Champeney, farmer
TUCKER – Mary Ann (Mrs), farmer
TUCKER – Joseph Henry, farmer
VOWLES – Alfred, Farmer
WARREN – William, Farmer
WEBBER - Frederick, Farmer
DUTCH ROAD
HARDING – Mrs
COLEMAN – Thomas, Farmer
DAVIS - William, farmer
HARP ROAD
PERKINS – William
BAGG – Frederick, Farmer
DAY – Cornelius, farmer
POPHAM – Henry, farmer
NORTHWICK
FEAR – Thomas, Farmer
LUFF – Robert, (Mrs), farmer
TURNER – Frank, Farmer
VOWLES – Ernest, farmer
VOWLES – John, farmer
RIVER BRIDGE
EDNEY – John, Farmer
TRATT – Esther (Mrs), Black Bull P.H.
WESTLAKE – Tom, Farmer
SOUTHWICK
BOYER – Edmund, Farmer
FEAR – Clifford, Farmer
FEAR – Frank, Farmer
LARDER – Ambrose, Farmer
LATCHAM – William, Farmer
MOON – Edward James, Corn & Cake Merchant & Farmer, Southwick House
POPHAM – Richard, Farmer
WATTS - Anthony, Farmer
WATTS - John, Pig Dealer
VOLE
CAREY – Charles, farmer
CARNELL – Edward, farmer
DURSTON – Isaac, farmer
HARDING – Edward, farmer
STURGESS – Thomas, farmer
VOWLES – Kate (Mrs), farmer
YARD WALL
PUDDY – Samuel, Contractor
YARROW
BINNING - Miss
BINNING - Frank, farmer
COLEMAN – William Jesse, farmer
COX - George, farmer
HAM – Rowland, farmer
PUDDY - William, contractor
URCH - Oliver, farmer, assistant overseer, collector & surveyor for the Lower Brue Drainage Board
WALL - George, farmer
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