A TWO-IN-ONE VILLAGE

Evening Star, Issue 19615, 22 July 1927, Page 9

A TWO-IN-ONE VILLAGE

THE LAUGHING- STOCK OF ENGLAND. Porlock, in Somerset, will never lose its beauty, but it may lose a peculiar distinction. It has been a village where The water-cart watered only ono side of the street. Tho policeman bad to be caret ul bow he arrested a man; Double fees were charged for burial; There are separate latcs for each side of the street. Tho trouble arose because one-half of Porlock was in Porlock Parish and half in Luccornbe, a hamlet three miles away. The dividing line runs somewhere down tho main street, and because of this awkward division the village has been the laughing stock of England for years. If the policeman arrests a man in the street, it is stated, he has to measure the road with a tape measure to find out in which parish tho man is arrested. What would happen of ho had one foot in each parish no one dare venture to say. The cemetery is in Luccornbe Parish, and that is why, when Porlock parishioners die, they have to pay double fees to be buried there. A specially convened mooting has decided in favor of Porlock's becoming an urban district, and if this conics about all her troubles may vanish.