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Kelly's Directory 1875
CURRY MALLETT is a village and parish, 133 miles from London, 8 south-east from Taunton, 6 north from Ilminster, and 2¼ miles from Hatch Beauchamp station, on the Chard branch of the Bristol and Exeter railway, in the Western division of the county, hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, union and county court district of Langport, rural deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taunton, diocese of Bath and Wells, and situated on the river Ile. The church of St. James is a stone building, in the Perpendicular style, having a chancel, nave, aisle, private chapel belonging to the family of Pyne, tower with 5 bells, and south porch: the roof was restored about 1863. The resister dates from the year 1653. The living is a rectory, with Curland annexed, joint yearly value £430, with residence and 45 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Duchy of Cornwall, and held by the Rev. Charles Leigh Pemberton, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge. There is a school for boys and girls, and a Sunday school held in the school-room. The Baptists have a chapel here. The charities are £2 10s. yearly. The manorial rights, and nearly the whole of the land, belong to the Duchy of Cornwall. The soil is clayey, and the subsoil is blue lias stone. The chief crops are wheat, beans and oats. The area is 1,650 acres; rateable value, £2,913; and the population in 1871 was 510.
Parish Clerk, William Cox.
Letters received through Taunton. Pillar box closed at 6.5 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Hatch Beauchamp
School, vacant
Mead John
Mead William
Pemberton Rev. Chas. Leigh, M.A. Rectry
COMMERCIAL
Allen Elizbth. (Mrs.), farmer, Wellenge
Banfield Edwd. Saml. farmer & shopkeepr
Bauler James, shopkeeper
Burnell William, veterinary surgeon
Dollen Adolphus, beer rtlr. & wheelwright
Glyde Charles, farmer & cattle dealer
Dollen Silas, farmer
Higgins & Cook, stone masons
Kinglake John, farmer
Mead James, farmer
Musgrove Jacob, shopkeeper
Musgrove Walter, shopkeeper
Paul John, Rock house
Perry & Jeffery, carpenters
Pester Charles Edward, Bell
Stevens John, blacksmith
Summerhayes Wareham, farmer & quarry owner
Taylor James, farmer
Vile Job, baker & farmer
Vile Samuel, farmer
Waldron Thomas, butcher & farmer
Weaver William, farmer
Webber John, grocer & tailor
Whaites Alban, farmer
Whaites William, farmer