KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DORSETSHIRE - 1895

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• INDEX TO KELLY'~ D DIRE TORY. ---+--- PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGg Abbey Crofts, see Tar- Benville, see Corscombe 65 Broadwindsor 44 Chaldon Down, see 0001- rant Rushton ...•... ..• 174 Bere Heath,see BereRegis 24 Brockhampton, see Buck- don Herring .••....•...• S4- Abbotsbury ......•... 17 Bereknap, see Compton land Newton ..........•• 46 Chaldon Herring or COOIAckling Dyke, see Gus- Abbas 61 Bromhill, see Winfrith don East ...•.....•.••..• 54- sage All Saints .....•..• 84 Bere Regis or Beer Regis 24 Newburgh ........•...... 210 Chaldon West, see OhalActon, see Langton Ma- Bestwell-North& South, Broome Bill, see Moreton Il7 don Berring •••••••••.•• 54- travers ..............•..... 98 see Wareham...••......• 182 Brownsea, see Branksea 33 Chalmington, see CattisAdmiston, see Athel- Bettiscombe 25 Bryanston or Bryanstone 45 tock... ......•••..• 50 hampton .................• 20 Bexington, see Punc- Bryants Puddle, see At!- Chapelhay,see Weymouth 191 At!puddle, or Affpiddle 17 knowle...•.•..•.••.••..•••• 142 puddle .••.••..........•.... 18 Chapmau's Pool, see Agglestone, see Studland 1fi4 Bincombe .....••••... ..•.•.. 25 Buccombe, see Buckland Swanage ................•• 169' Alcester, see Shaftesbury 145 Hindon-Great, see Wool 214 Newton. ..•... 46 Charborough, see Morden n6· Alderholt.••...•.. ..........•• 18 Bindon Bill, see West Buckham,see Beaminster 21 Chardstock 54- Alexandra gardens, see Lulworth 103 Buckhorn Weston 46 Chardstock All Saints, Weymouth 187 Bingham's Melcombe, see BucklandNewtonorBuck- see Chardstock 54- Allington & Allington- Melcombe Bingham JI3 land Abbas 46 Charlestown, see West North, see Bridport... 37 Binnegar, see East Stoke 162 Buckland Ripers 47 Chickerell ........ .•..•.• S9 Allington - West, see Birdsmoor - Gate, see Buckshaw - Higher & Charlton Marshall :...... 55 Bridport................... 40 Broadwindsor............ 45 Lower, see Bolwell 92 Charminster 55 Almer.................. ...... 18 Bishop Caundle,seeCaun- Hugley, see Gillingham 83 Charmouth.................. 56 Alston, see Chardstock... 54 dIe Bishop ..• 51 Bulbarrow Hill,see Hilton 90 Chaston, see Buckland Alton Pancras.. ...•• 18 Bishopsdown,see Caundle Burlestone ..•... ..•....•• 47 Newton.... .••.•.• 47 Alweston, see Folke 79 Bishop .••....•••......••... 51 Burngate, see West Lul- Chebbard, see Dewlish... 67 Anderson •••. .•.. ..• 19 Blackdown, see Broad- worth 103 Cheddington ••• 57 Ansty, see Hilton......... 90 windsor 4S Burstock 47 Chelborough-Esst ••.••• 57 Anvil Point, see Swanage 169 Blackrow, see Lydlinch 103 Burton, see Charminster 56 Chelborough-West •••.•• SS Arched Rock, see West Black Ven Hills, see Burton Bradstock.......... 48 Cheshil & Cheshil Bank, Lulworth 103 Charmouth............... 56 Burton-East & West,see see Portland 135 Arne........................... 19 Bladen Heath, see At!- Winfrith ~ewburgh ••• 210 Cheshil Beach, see West Ash, sec Stourpaine....... 162 puddle......... .•••••....•• 18 Burton-Long ...... ..•.•• 48 Chickerell •.•.••.•••....• 59- Ashley, see Longbredy 100 Blagdon, see Cranborne 65 Bushes, see Godmanstone 84 Chesilborne.................. 58 Ashmore .•.••. 19 BIandford or BIandford- ButtPond,seeSturminster Chetnole ...•••..••••.•••...•• SS Ashton, see Winterborne Forum •••.. ....•....•.•.•. 25 Newton •.•.••...........• 166 Chettle... 58 St. Martin 212 BIandford Down, see Buzbury, see Tarrant Chickerell-- East, see Askerswell................... 20 Shapwick ....•.•••..•..• 149 Keynston 173 West Chickerell......... 59 Athelhampton 20 Blandford St. Mary....... 31 Bye, see Kington Magna 96 Chickerell-West ..••••..• 59- Axe Knoll-East, see Blocksworth, see Blox- Cain's Folly, see Char- Chideock 59- Beaminster 20 worth ..•.••.•••.. ...••. 31 mouth 56 Chideock - North, see Babylon Hill, see Over Bloxworth .••..• •••• 31 Came-Middle & Higher, Chideock 6() Oompton.................. 62 Bockhampton-Higher & seeWinterbourne Came 211 Chilcombe 60 Badbury,seeWimborne... 204 Lower, see Stinsford... 160 Canford Cliffs, see Park- Childhay, see BroadwindBadbury Rings,see Shap- Bohmston, see Stinsford 160 stone 122 sor 45 wick 149 Bothenhampton............ 31 Canford-Little,seeHam- Child Okeford II9 Bagber, see Sturminster Bourne Valley,see Brank- 65 preston..................... 86 Chilfrome 6() Newton...... 166 some... 34 Canford Magna 48 Cholbury, see Bincombe 25 Baiter, see Poole 131 Bourton 32 Cann........................... 49 Chorlock Bill, see Nether Ball Barrow, see Sydling Boveridge, see Cranborne 65 CalfHill,seeBroadwindsor 45 Compton 6z St. Nicholas 171 Bovington, see WooL 214 Cashmoor, see Handley 87 Church Knowle 61 Baltington, see Tyneham 179 Bowdens Hill, see Mel- Castle Eve,see Parkstone 123 Clandon, see WinterBarford, see Wimborne... 204 bury Abbas... ............ II2 Castle Hill, see Buckland borne St. Martin ...... 212 Barnsley, see Wimborne 204 Bowdere, see Kington Newton 46 Clatcomb, see Sherborne IS!: Barrow - Great, see Magna 96 Castle Hill, see Cranborn 65 Clenstone Winterborne, Hampreston 86 Bowood, see Netherbury II9 Castle Hill, see East Chel- see Winterborne OlenBarrow Hill, see Bere Bowood-North &South, borough 58 stone 2U Regis 24 see Netherbury JI9 Castle MIll,seePowerstock 139 Clifton Maybank 61 Barrow Land, see Toller Bradford Abbas 32 Castleton, see Sherborne 149 Clouds Hill, see At!- Porcorum....... 177 Bradford Peverell.... 33 Castletown, see Portland 135 puddle IS Batcombe .....• 20 Bradpole 33 Caswell, see Ryme In- Clyt!e, see Tincleton 17(, Baunton, see Bothen- Branksea 33 trinsica 143 Coaxdon, see Chardsliock hampton .....• 3I Branksome & Branksome Catherstone Leweston .•• 50 All Saints...... 55 Beaminster.................. 20 Park........................ 34 Cattistock 50 Cobb, see Lyme Regis 104- Beaulieu Wood, seeBuck- Bredy-Little 99 Caundle Bishop SI Cogdon, see Burton land Newton 47 Bredy-Long 100 Caundle Marsh 51 Bradstock 48 Bedchester, see FontmeIl Brianston, see Bryanston 45 Caundle Purse SI Coker's Frome, see DorMagna..................... 80 Bridport 36 Caundle Stonrton SI chester..................... 69 Beer Backett... ..• 23 Broadmayne 43 Caundle Wake. see Caun- Cole Hill, see Holt 92- Beerhall,see Thorncombe 175 Broad Oak, see Sturmin- dIe Bishop 51 Colliton Row, see DorBelchalwell 23 ster Newton 165 Cerne Abbas 52 chester.. 69 Belhuish, see West Lul- Broad Oak, see Symonds- Cerne Nether & Upper S3 Comb Keines, seeCoombe worth 103 bury 172 Chat!eymoor, see Bourton 32 Keynes..................... 63 Bell Bill, see Belchalwell 23 Broadstone, see Canford Chalbury..................... 53 Compton Abbas 6:1 Bell View Barrow, see Magna 49 Chaldon Boys, see Chal- Compton Abbas or West Hampreston 86 Broadway or Broadwey 44 don Herring 54 Compton 6~

INDEX TO KELLY'S DORSETSBIR~ DIR~CTORY ••• nUl PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGm uompton-Nether .•••••••• 62 Eastbury, see Tarraut Flower's Barrow, see East Halstock with Halstock Compton-Over 62 Gunville 173 Lulworth .......•.......... 103 Leigh... 85 Compton Valence, or East Chaldon, see Chal- Folke 79 Ham, see Gillingham ••• 83 Compton-East 62 don Herring 54 Fontleroi Marsh, see HambIedon Hill, see Conig Castle Hill, see East Chelborough 57 Folke .•• 79 I werne Courtnay 94 Whitchurch Canoni- East Chickerell, see West Fontmell Down, see Font- Ham Chamberlayne, see corum 202 Chickerell ~........... 59 mell Magna 80 Hampreston 86 Conquer Barrow, see Dor- East Compton, see Comp- Fontmell Magna............ 80 Hamilton Hill, see Child chester..................... 69 ton Valence............... 62 Fordington-East, see Okeford 120 ConstitutionHill,see Poole 128 East Creech, see Church Dorchester 69 Ham-Long, see HamConygore Hill, see Win- Knowle 61 Fordington-West, see preston..................... 86 terborne Came 211 EastElworth, see Abbots- Dorchester 68 Hammerdon Hill, see Coombe, see Sherborne 152 bury..................... 17 Fordington, see Dor- Shipton Gorge 156 Coombe Almer, see Stur- EastEnd,seeCorfeMullen 64 chester..................... 67 Hammoon 85 minster Marshall 165 EastFleet,see Abbotsbury 17 Fordwater, see Chard- Hampreston 86 Coombe Keynes 63 East Fordington, see stock........................ 55 Hamworthy 86 Corfe Castle 63 Dorchester 69 Forked Down End, see Handfast Point, See Corfe Gate,see Portesham 134 East Fossil, see Winfrith Studland 165 Swanage 168 Code Mullen 64 Newburgh 210 Forston, see Charminster 56 Handley 87 Corscombe 64 East Holme.................. 91 Fortune's Well, see Pur~- Hanford 87 Corton, see Portesham 134 East Howe, see Kinson... 97 land 135 Harncombe, see Monkton Coryates, see Portesham 134 East Knighton, see Win- Fossil-East, see Winfrith Wyld lIS Court Ash, see Nether frith Newburgh 210 Newburgh 210 Hardown Hill, see WhitCompton 62 East Langton, see Lang- Fossil Hill, see Chaldon church Canonicorum 202 Court Hill, see Ryme ton Matravers............ 98 Herring 54 Harely, see Fifehead Intrinsica 143 East Lulworth 102 Four Barrow Hill, see Neville 79 Cowgrove, see Pamphill 122 East Morden II6 Winterborne St. Martn 212 Hareley Down, see GusCowherd's Shute, see Easton, see Portland 135 Frampton 80 sage All Saints ....•. '" 84 Motcombe 117 East Orchard 121 Friar Mayne, see Knigh- Hartgrove, see Fontmell Cow Hill, see Broad- East Ringstead, see Os- ton West......... 97 Magna 80 windsor 45 mington 121 Frogmoor, see ToIler Hartley, see Minterne Crackmore,see Sherborne 151 East Stoke 161 Porcorum 177 Magna lIS Cranborne 65 East Stower or Stour 163 Frome, see Charminster 56 Hartmoor, see Kington Crawford Castle, see East Woodyates 214 Frome Billet, see West Magna 96 Spetisbury 157 Edmondsham 77 Stafford ...••• 158 Haselbury Bryan 83 CreechBarrow,see Steeple 160 Eggardon-Higher, see Frome Down, see Char- Hats Barn, see Ashmore. 19 Creech-East & Creech Askerswell 20 minster 56 Haven Southf see StudHill,see Church Knowle 61 Eggardon Hill, seePower- Frome Hill, see Dorchestr 69 land. 165 Creech-West,see Steeple 160 stock 139 Frome Saint Quintin or Hawkchurch 88 Creekmoor, see Canford Egliston, see Tyneham 179 Frome-Little............ 81 Hawkesbury Barrow, see Magna 49 Ellston Hill, see Sydling Frome Vauchurch......... 81 Canford Magna 49 Crendell, see Alderholt 18 St. Nicholas 171 Frome Whitfield, see Haydon 89 Crichel-Long & More '" 66 Elsford, see Ryme In- Dorchester 69 Hayes, see Marnhull III Cripplestyle,see Alderholt 18 trinsica 143 Furzebrook, see Church Heatherlands, see BrankCripton, see Winterborne Elwell, see Upway 179 Knowle 61 some........................ 34 Came 211 Elworth-East & West, Gainsborough Hill, see Heedless Williams' Pond, Crockway, see Frampton 80 see Abbotsbury 17 Sherborne , 151 see Puddletown 141 Crouch Hill, see Holwell 92 Emmit Hill, see Worth Gainscross, see Shilling- Hellstone, see Portesham l34 Crowley, see Chardstock 54 Matravers 217 stone 156 Hellyer's Close,see HawkCruxton, see Maiden Enmore Green, see Mot- Galton, see Owermoigne 122 church '" 89 Newton log combe II7 Gaunt's Common, see Hemsworth,see Shapwick 149 Codnell, see Kinson 96 Ensbury, see Kinson...... 96 Holt 92 Hemsworth - Lower & Cut Mill, see Hinton St. Evershot 78 Gillingham................... 81 West,see Witchampton 214 Mary 91 Ewerne Courtnay, see Glanvilles IWootton, see Henbury - Higher & Daggons, see Alderholt... 18 Iwerne Courtnay ...... 93 Wootton Glanville...... 216 Lower, see SturminDean, see Handley 87 Ewerne Minster, see Glynville, see Hamprestn 86 ster Marshall 165 Denland, see Handley 87 IwerneMinster 94 Goathorn, see Studland 165 Henley, see Buckland Dewlish 67 Eype Down Hill, see Godmanstone 84 Newton 47 Dibberford, see Broad- Chideock .................. 59 Gold hill, see Child Henning Hill, see Melwindsor 45 Eype Higher & Lower, Okeford 120 combe Bingham 113 Dorchester 67 see Symondsbury 172 Golden Cap &Golden Cap Hermitage 89 Dottery, see Loders 100 Farnham..................... 78 Hill, see Charmouth... 56 Herston, see Swanage 168 Dottery, see Netherbury 119 Farnham Tollard, see Gomershay, see Stal- Hewood, see Thorncombe 175 Down - Little, see Farnham 78 bridge 158 Hewstock, see Hinton Shaftesbury 145 Farringdon, see Iwerne Gorewood, see Minterne St. Mary.................. 91 Down South, see Ower- Courtnay.................. 94 Magna 115 Highdon, see Melcombe moigne......... 122 Fern Down, see Ham- Gorwell, see Longbredy 100 Hingham 113 Drakenorth, see North preston . .•• 86 Grange, see Holt 92 Higher Bockhampton, Poorton 134 Fiddleford, see Okeford Graston, see Burton see Stinsford 160 Drimpton St. Mary, see Fitzpaine 120 Bradstock 48 Higher Buckshaw, see Broadwindsor 4S Fifehead, or Fifehide Great Barrow, see Ham- Holwell 92 Drive End, see Melbury Magdalen.................. 78 preston....... 86 Higher Came, see WinOsmond 112 Fifehead, or Fifehide Great Bindon, see Wool 214 terborne Came 211 Droop, see Haselbury Neville 79 Great Hinton or Hinton Higher Eggardon, see Bryan 88 Fifehead St. Qointin or Marte!.. 90 Askerswell 20 Dudsbury,seeWestParley 125 Fifehead-Lower, see Great ToIler.... 177 Higher Eype, see SyDungeon, see Buckland Belchalwell 23 Greenhill, see Sherbome 153 mondsbury 172 Newton 46 Fifehead Sydling, see Greenhill' gardens, see Higher Henbury, see Dunster, see Buckhorn Sydling St. Nicholas 171 Weymouth 187 Sturminster Marshall. 165 Weston..................... 46 Fig-bury Barrow, see Gribb, see Thorncombe 175 Higher Kingcombe, see Duntish, see Buckland Canford Magna 49 Grimston, see Stratton 164 Rampisham 143 Newton 46 Fish Pond Bottom, see Ground - North, see Higher Kingcombe, see Durdle Door, see West Whitchurch Canoni- Chaldon Herring 54 ToIler Porcorum ...... 177 Lulworth 103 corurn 202 Grove, see Portland 135 Higher Nyland,see KingDurlston Head, see Five Mary Barrow, see Gussage All Saints 84 ton Magna 96 Swanage 169 ChaldonHerring......... 54 Gussage St. Andrew. see Higher Wraxall, see Dnrweston 77 Fleet 79 Handley 87 Rampisham 143 East Axe Knoll, see Bea- Fleet-East & West, see Gussage St Michael, or High Moor, see Kinson... 97 minster 20 Abbotsbury·............... 17 Gussage Middle 85 Highwood see East Stoke 162 Eas~ Burton, see Win- Fleet's Cross, see Long- Ha~don Hill, seeChideock 59 Hilfield ..'.................... 89 inth Newburgh 210 fleet 101 Hail, see Sherborne 15' ·Hill Butts, see Pamphill. 122

·INDEX TO KELty'S DORSETSf:[m~ DIRECTORY. • l'AGE PAGE PAGE PAGIl Hill "Ram, see Sydling Knowles Hill, see Church Low. Loders, or Lothers 100 Mool'bath, see Symonds- ) St. Nicholas •••.••..•••• 171 Knowle •.•.•• H.••• ••• ••• 61 Lower Lytchett, see Lyt- bury.••••••" 1 17la ·Hilton ••. ••....•• 90 Knowle Barrow., see chett Minster 108 Moorside, see Marnhull III Hiuton Martel or Hin- Moreton 1I7 Lulworth Cove, see West Moors-Little, see Ham- . ton-Great go Knowlton, see Woodlands 214 Lulworth 103 preston 86 Hinton Parva or Hin- Lackington, see Pydel- Lulworth-East 102 Moors-West, see Verton-Little 90 Trenthide 142 Lulworth-West 103 wood ••••••••••••••••••••• 180 Hinton St. Mary 91 La Lee, see Winterborne Lush Barrow, see Can- Moors-West, see West Hod Hill, see Stourpaine 162 Whitchurch 214 ford Magna 49 Parley 125 Hog Hill, see MeIcombe Lambert's Castle, see Lydlinch 103 Morden-East & West .•• u6 Bingham II3 Hawkchurch 89 Lyme Regis 104 Morecombelake, see Holcombe, see Alton Lamb's Green, see Corfe Lyon's Gate, see Min- Whitchurch CanoniPancras •..•••..•.•......• 19 Mullen ..........•....•.... 64 terne Magna •••.......•. 115 corum ...•••••••••••••••••• 202- Holcombe, see Puddle- Langdon, see Beaminster 21 Lypscombe, see Chesil- More Crichel 66 hinton 140 Langford, see Frampton. 80 borne 58 Moreton u6 Holditch, seeThorncombe 175 Langton Herring 98 Lytchett Beacon, see Moretown, see Canford Holes Bay, see Canford Langton, or Langton- Lytchett Minster. 108 Magna 49 Magna 49&CorfeMullen 64 Long-Blandford 97 Lytchett Matravers 108 Mosterton .•.•. II1 Holme East 91 Langton Wallis, or Lang- Lytchett Minster-Lower Motcombe II1 Holme-West, see East ton-West, see Lang- or South Lytchett....... 108 Mount Pleasant, see Stoke 162 ton Matravers 98 Mageston, see Frampton 80 Ibberton 93 Bolnest 91 Langton Matravers, or Maiden Castle, see Win- Mowlom's Barrow, see Holt 92 East Langton 98 terborne St. Martin 212 Owermoigne 122 Holwell 92 Lawrence Barrow, see Maiden Newton 109 Muckleford, see Bradford HolweIl, see Cranborne .. 65 Dorchester 69 Maidenwell, see Portland 135 Peverell 33 ·.Holworth, see Ower- Lawrences, see Buckland Mambury Rings, see Muston,see Puddlehinton 140 moigne 122 Newton 46 Dorchester 68 Muston, see Winterborne Holywell, see Evershot... 78 Leigh 98 Mangerton, see Melplash Il3 Kingston 212 Hooke or Hook 92 Leigh, see Ibberton 93 Mannington, see Gussage Netherbury u8 Horn Hill, see Mosterton II7 Leigh, see Wimborne 204 All Saints 84 Nether Cerne 53 Horsecastles, see Sher- Lenthay, see Sherborne 151 Manston log Nether Combe, see Litton borne ISO Lewcombe, see East Manswood, see Gussage Cheney 99 Horse Park, see Gussage Chelborough 57 St. Michael, 85 & More Nethercombe, see SherAll Saints.................. 84 Lewell, see Knighton- Crichel..... 67 borne _............. 151 Horton........................ 93 West........................ 97 Mapperton, see Almer... 18 Nether Compton 62 Hound Hill,seeWimborne 204 Lewesdown Hill, see Mapperton or Mapper- Netherhay, see BroadHowe East, see Kinson. 97 Broadwindsor............ 45 ton-South IlO windsor...... 45 Hunger Hill, see Poole 128 Leweston, see Lillington 98 Mappowder IIO Nettlecombe, see PowerHuntingford, see Gil- Lillington 98 Margaret Marsh IIO stock 139 lingham 82 Limburghs, see Marnhnll III Marnhull IIO Newbury, see Gillingham 82 Hursey, see Burstock..... 47 Littlebredy.................. 99 Marsh, see Ibberton 93 Newland, see Sherborne 153 Hurst, see Moreton II7 Little CanfM'd, see Ham- Marshwood III Newland, see Wootton Hyde, see Frampton...... 80 preston 86 Martinstown,see Winter- Glanville 216 Hyde, see Lydlinch ...... 103 Little Down,see Shaftes- borne St. Martin ...... 212 Newton, see Coombe .Hyde Hill,see Chesilborne 58 burr 145 Marwood, see Winter- Keynes... 63 Ibberton 93 Little Frome, see Frome borne Zelstone 214 Newton, see Hturminster llsington, see Puddletwn 141 Saint Quintin 81 Mayne Little,seeKbigh- Newton 166 Iwerne Courtnay 93 Little Hinton, or Hinton ton West 97 Newtown, see Beaminster 21 Iwerne Minster 94 Parva. 90 Meers Barrow, see ehal- Newtown, see Branksome 34 Jerusalem Hill, see Sher- Little Mayne, see Knigh- don Herring 54 Newyeate, see Stower borne ..•..•.......••.....• 151 ton-West ........•.•.... 97 Melbury Abbas III Provost ••••••.......•••.• 163 Kentcombe, see ToIler Lit. Moor, flee Broadway 44 Melbury Bubb U2 Nine Stones, see WinterPorcornm 177 Little Moors; see Ham- Melbury Osmond II2 borne Abbas 210 Kershay, see Netherbury U9 preston..................... 86 Melbury Sampford, or North Allington, seeBridKilford, see Ibbetton.... 93 Littleton, see Langton... 97 Upper Melbury II2 port 31 Kimmeridge 95 Lit. Windsor, see Broad- Melcombe Bingham,' or North Bestwell, see Kingcombe - Higher & windsor 45 Melcombe Horsey II3 Wareham 182 Lower, see Rampisham 143 Littlewood, seeFrampton 80 Melcombe Regis, see NorthBowood,seeNetherKingcombe - Higher & Litton Cheney 99 Weymouth 185 bury JIg Lower, see ToIler Por- Loders-Upper & Lower 100 Melplash lIg Northbrook, see Puddlecorum 177 Loders Land, see Askers- MiddleCame, see Winter- town 141 Kingsdown, see Shapwick 149 well 20 borne Came 2II Northbrook, see Swanage 163 King Stag, see Lydlinch. log Loders West End, see Middle Gussage, or Gus- North Chideock, see Kingston •.•.•. ....•. ..• 95 Bridport ..••.....••... .•.•. 37 sage St. l\'Iichael... 85 Chideock .-... .....• 60 Kingston, see Haselbury Longbredy too MiddleHill, see Hampres- North Egliston, see Bryan ... .... ... .•..••... .•• 88 Long Burton •..... ..•..•... 48 ton.... •••••••••••..••••....• 86 Tyneham ..•••.....•.. ..• 179 Kingston Lacey, see Long Crichel or Critchell 66 Middlemarsh, see Min- North Ground, see CbalPamphill 122 Longfieet 100 terne Magna I IS don Herring 54 Kingston Marwood & Long Ham, see Ham- Milborne St. Andrew & North Poorton 134 Kingston-Upper, see preston 86 Milborne Stileham II3 Northport, see Wareham 183 Stinsford 160 Look, see Abbotsbury 17 MilesCro&s, see Symonds- North Trigon, see WareKingston Russell 96 Lord's Banow, see Ower- bury .-.- 172 ham 182 KingstonWinterborne,see moigne 122 Milton, see Gillingham... 82 North Wootton 216 Winterborne Kingston 212 Loscombe, see Melplash IIg Milton Abbas 114 Norwood, see West ChelKington Magna 96 Lothers, see Loders 100 Milton-West,see Power- borough 58 Kinson 96 Lower Bockhampton, see stock 139 Nothe & Look-out. see Knap, see Wotton Fitz- Stinsford 160 Minchington, see Hand- Weymouth 181 paine 217 Lower Buckshaw, see ley........................... 87 NotheFort,seeWeymouth 186 Knighton, see Beer HolweIl.................... 92 Minterne Magna IIS Nottington, see BuckHackett 23 Lower Eype, see Sy- MinterneParva,see Buck- land Ripers _..~........ 47 Knighton, see Canford mondsbury 172 land Newton 46 Nottington & Nottington Magna ... .................. 49 Lower Fifehead, see Bel- Mohun Castle, see South Spa, see Broadway... 44 Knighton, see Durweston 77 chalwell 23 Perrott 125 ~otton, see Maiden NewKnighton-East, seeWin- Lower Hemsworth, see Monkton, see Winter- ton log frith Newburgh 210 Witchampton 214 borne Monkton 212 Nutford, see Pimpeme.•• 126 Knighton-West 97 Lower Henbury, seeStur... Monkton-up - Wimborne, Nyland&Nyland-.Higher, KnightsBottom,seeHooke 93 minster MarshaIl ...... 165 see Wimborne St. Giles 209 see Kington Magna... 96 Knitson, see Langton Lower Kingcombe, see MonktoD Wyld IIS Oakers Wood, see AffMatravers 98 Rampisham 143 Moor-Little, see Broad- puddle 18 Knowle, see Buckland Lower Kingcombe, see way......... 440akley, see Canford . Newton 46 ToIler Porcorum 177 Moore CritcheIl 66 Magna 49

;INDEX TO KELLY'S DORSE'rSlIlRE Dl'REatPRY; ~~ - ~. 'XXV PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE Oakley, see Wimborne St. Quar Hill, see Chideock 59 South Bowood. sea Tarrant Crawford w 172 Giles 209 Radipole 142 Netherbury" ~. JI9 Tarrant Gunvi.lle , t72 Oakley Down, s~ Hand- Rampisham ••J •••• •••••• 143 South Down,. sefl Ower.. Tarrant Hinton t19 ley 87 Rawles, see Fifehead moigne 122 T.arrant Keyn81lon 173 Oborne 119 Neville w ".......... 79 South Egliston, see Tyne..' Tarrant Launceston.J 173 Okeford Fitzpaiue 120 Rawlesbury, see Stoke ham T J79 Tarrant Monkton••• , 174 Oldbury see Hloxworth 31 Wake 162 SouthHaven,S96 Studiand 165 Ta.rrant Ra..wston .. J 174- Orchard-East & West 121 Redhorn, see Studland 165 South Lytchett, see Tarrant RU8hton.·.•. 174 Organ Ford. see Lytchett Reforne, see Portland 135 Lytchett Minster 108 Thorncomb, see Langton 97 Minster 108 Revels, see Buckland South Mapperton, see Thorncombe 174 Osmington 121 Newton 47 MappertQn 110 Thornoombe Hill, see Over Compton 62 Rew, see Buckland New- Southover, see Frampton 80 Chideock d... 59 Overcoombe,seeSherbrne 151 ton 47 South Perrott 125 Thornford 175 Owermoigne 122 Rew, seeWinterborne St. South Poorton, see ThornhiU1 soo Stalbridge 158 Oxbridge, see Melplash Il3 Martin 212 Powerstock 139 Tho:rnicombe, see BlandPainsmoor Copse, see Ridge Hill, see Portes- South Trigon, see Ware- ford St. Mary" .......,.. 3I Edmondsh!tm... 77 ham 134 ham 182 Thorny Down, see Hand.. Pallington, see Affpuddle 18 Ridgeway, see Upway 172 Southwell, see Portland 135 ley 87 Pamphill 122 Ring's Hill, SE'.e East Lnl. Spetisbnry 157 Throop, see Maiden NewParkgate, see Haselbury worth 103 Spetisbnry Ring, 800 ton 109 Bryan 88 Ringstead Bay, see Os- Spetisbury 157 Thorton, see Marnhull..• III Park Gate, see Stoke mington .. 121 Spyway, see Langton Three Legged Cross, see Wake 162 Ringstead--East, see Os- Matrnvers 98 Verwood I80 Parkstone 122 mington 121 Stafford~West 158 Tilly Whim, see Swanage 169 Parley West 125 Rodden, see Abbotsbury. 17 Stalbridge 158 Tincleton 176 Parson Poole,see Shaftes· Rodwell, see Weymouth. 191 Stalen, see Nether Comp- Todber or Todbere ,~ 176 bury 144 Rogers Hill, see Afl'- ton ~.................. 62 ToIler Down, .see Col'SPeace Marsh, seeGilling- puddle 18 Stanbridge, soo Hinton combe 65 ham 82 Round Pond Barrow, see Parva. go Tollerford, see Frame Penn Hill, see Bradford Chaldon Herring 54 Stancombe, see Litton Vauchurch 81 Peverell .•. 33 Rousdon, see LymeRegis 105 Cheney 99 Toller }<'ratrum •.~... 177 Pentridge 125 Rushton, see Tarrant Stanton St. Gabriel 159 Toiler Porcorum or Great Perrott-South 125 Rushton 174 Stape Hill, see Ham- Toner, "" 177 PeverelPoint,seeSwanage 168 Rushton, see East Stoke. 162 preston ....... ........ ...... 86 Toller Whelme, see CorsPiddle Burleston,seeBur- Russon, see Haydon 89 Staple Barrow, see Mil- combe 65 lestone. 47 Ryal, see Whitchurch borne St. Andrew JI4 Tolpuddle, Tolpuddell or Piddlehinton, see Puddle- Canonicorum 202 Steep Hill, see Ham- Tolpiddle... 177 hinton 140 Rye Hill, see Bere Regis. 24 preston 86 Tomson, see Winterborne Piddletown, see Puddle- Ryme Intrinsica, or Steeele 159 Thompson. 213 town 140 Ryme 143 Steepleton Iwerne, or Toner's Puddle 178 Piddletrenthide,seePydel. St. Albans, or St. Ald- Steepleton Preston...... 160 Totnell, see Leigh 98 Trenthide 142 helm's Head, see Worth Stickland Winterborne, Trigon-North & South, Pilford, see Hampreston 86 Matravers 217 see Winterborne Stick- see Wareham 182 Pillesdon, see Pilsdon 125 St. Andrew's, see West land 213 Trigon Hill, see Wareham 183 Pillesdown Hill,seeBroad- Lnlworth 103 Stinsford 160 Turner's Puddle, see windsor 45 St. Andrew's Well, see Stoborough, see Ware- Toner's Puddle 178 Pilsdon :125 Bradpole 33 ham 182 Tumworth 178 Pilsdon Pen, see Pilsdon 126 St. James', see Shaftes- Stockbridge, see Lilling- Twyford, see Compton Pimperne 126 bury 144 ton... 99 Abbas 61 Pinford, see Sherborne ISI St. John's Spring, see Stock Gaylard (or Stoke) 160 Tyneham 178 Pinnys, see Corscombe... 65 Evershot 78 Stockwood (or Stoke) 161 Tytherleigh, see ChardPlush,see Buckland New- Salway Ash, see Nether- Stoke, see Stock Gaylard 160 stock 54 ton. 46 bury 118 Stoke Abbott 161 Uddens, see Wimborne 204 Pokeswell 226 Sandbanks, see Parkstone 122 Stoke East 161 Up Ceme 53 Poole 126 Sandford, see Morden 116 Stokeford, see East Stoke 162 Uphall, see Rampisham 143 Poorstock, see Power- & Wareham 182 Stoke Wake 162 Upper Kingston, see stock 139 Sandhills, see Cattistock. 50 Stone, see Pamphill 122 Stinsford 160 Poorton-North 134 Sandley, see Gillingham. 82 Stourpaine 162 Upper Loders or Lothers 100 Poorton - South, see Seabarrow, see Bradford Stower Row, see Stower Upper Melbury, see MelPowerstock " 139 Peverell 33 Provost...... 163 bury Sampford JI2 Portesham, or Portisham 134 Seatown. see Chideock... 60 Stower, or Stour-East.. 163 Upper Sydling, see SydPortland 135 Seldown, see Longfleet 101 Stower, or Stour Provost 163 ling St. Nicholas 171 Portway, see Winfrith Shaftesbury 143 Stower, or Stour-West. 164 Upton,seeCanfordMagna, Newburgh 210 Shapwick 149 Straits, see Portland 135 49; & Code Mullen... 64 Poundbury, see Dorches- Sharnell Green, see Buck- Stratton 164 Upton, see Osmington 121 tar 68 land Newton 47 Strawbarrow, see Shap- Upway 179 Povington, see Tyneham 178 Shaston St. Rumbold, wick 149 Venn, see Pilsdon 126 Powerstock 139 see Cann 49 Stroud, see Lydlynch 103 Verne, see Portland 135 Preston 139 Sherborne 149 Stubhampton, see Tar- Verwood 180 "Preston, see Iwerne Min- Sherborne Causeway, see rant Gunville 173 Victoria Park, see Parkster 94 Motcombe 117 Studland 164 stone 122 Preston Crawford, see Shillingstone, or Shilling Sturminster Marshall 165 Waddock, see Affpuddle 18 Tarrant Crawford 172 Okeford 156 Sturminster Newton Waddon, see Portesham 134 Prout Bridge, see Bea- Shilvinghampton, see (Castle) 165 Wakeham, see Portland 135 minster 22 Portesham 134 Sutton, see Wimborne Wallditch 180 Puckstone, see Studland 164 Shipton Gorge 156 St. Giles 209 Wallisdown, see Kinson 96 Puddlehinton 140 Shipton Hill, see Shipton Sutton Waldron 167 Wambrook 180 Puddletown 140 Gorge 156 Sutton Poyntz, see Prestn 140 Wanderwell, see BothenPuddletrenthide, see Py- Shitterton, see Bere Regis 24 Swan Island, see Ware- hampton 32 del-Trenthide 142 Shroton, see Iwerne ham 186 Wardstone Barrow, see Pnlham 141 Courtnay 93 Swanage 168 Chaldon HelTing. 54 Puncknowle 141 Silton 157 Swineham, see Wareham 182 Wareham ISI Purbeck Island 142 Sixpenny Handley, see Swine's Toiler, see Toiler Warmwell 185 Purse Caundle, see Handley 87 Porcorum 177 Watercombe, see WarmCaundle Purse 51 Skippet, see Warmwell .. 185 Swyre 171 well 185 Putton, see West Chick- Smallbridge, see Chard- Sydling St. Nicholas & Waterston,see Puddletwn 141 erell 59 stock 54 Upper Sydling 171 Watton, see Symondsbry 172 Puxey, see Sturminster Smallsford, see Buckhorn Symondsbury 172 Waytown,see Netherbury JI9 Newton 167 Weston 46 Tadnoll Barrow, see West Bay, see BothenPydel-Trenthide 142 South Bestwell, see Ware Moreton Il7 hampton, 31; & BridPymore, see Loders 100 ham............. I~2 Talbot Village, see Kinson 96 port.. 36

• XXYl INDEX TO KELLy'B DORSETSBIRE DIRECTORY. PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE West Allington, see Brid- Weston, see Portland ..••• 135 Winterborne Ashton, see Woodsford 214 port 40 Weston, see Stalbridge 158 Winterborne St.Martin 212 Wood Street, see Wool... 214 West Burton, see Win- West Orchard I:H Winterborne Came 210 Woodyates-East & West 214 frith Newburgh 210 West Parley 125 Winterborne Clenstone 211 Woo!.. 214 Westbury, see Sherborne 151 Westport, see Wareham 183 Winterborne FarringdQn 2II Woolbarrow, see BIoxWest Chaldon, see COOl- West Stafford 158 WinterborneHerringston 211 worth 31 don Herring 54 West Stower or Stour 164 Winterborne Houghton 211 Wool Bridge, see Wool 214 West Chelborough......... 58 West Wood, see Coombe Winterborne Kingston 212 Woolcombe, see Melbury West Chickerell............ 59 Keynes..................... 63 Winterborne Monkton 212 Bubb II2 West Compton,seeComp- West Woodyates 214 Winterborne Quarleston, Woolcombe,seeTollerPorton Abbas 62 Weymouth 185 see Winterborne Stick- corum 177 West Creech, see Steeple 160 Whatcombe, see Winter- land 213 Woolland 216 West Elworth,seeAbbots- borne Whitchurch...... 214 Wtnterborne St. Martin 212 Wootton Fitzpaine, see bury 17 WhitchurchCanonicorum 202 Winterborne Steepleton 213 Wotton Fitzpaine 217 West Fleet, see Abbots- Whitcombe 203 Winterborne Stickland 213 Wootton Glanville 216 bury 17 Whitechurch,see Winter- Winterborne Thompson 213 Wootton-North 216 West Fordington, see borne Whitchurch ...... 213 Winterborne Whitchurch 213 Worbarrow, see Handley 87 Dorchester 68 White Rill, see Shilling- Winterborne Zelst.one 214 Worbarrow, see TJ'Deham 179 Westham,see Wyke Regis 218 stone 156 Winterhays, see Yetmin- Worth Matravers 217 West Hemsworth, see White Hill,seeStokeWake 162 ster 219 Wotton l"itzpaine 217 Witchampton 214 White Nothe or White Winyard's Gap,see Ched- Wraxall 217 WestHolme,seeEa. Stoke 162 Nose, see Chaldron dington 57 Wraxall - Higher, see West Knighton 97 Herring 54 Witchampton 214 Rampisham 143 West Langton, see Lang- Whiteway, see Tyneham 179 Wolveton, see Charmin- Wroxhall, see Wraxall 217 ton Matravers 98 WhitfieId,seeCharminster 56 ster 56 Wyke,seeBradford Abbas 32 Westley, see Sturminster Wimborne St. GHes ...... 209 Wonston, see Haselbury Wyke, see Gillingham... 82 Marshall 165 Wimborne or Wimborne Bryan 88 Wyke Regis 218 West Lulworth 103 Minster 203 Wood Bridge, see Holwell 92 Wynford Eagle 219 West Milton, see Power- Windsbatch Hill, see Up- Woodbury Hill, see Bere Wytherstone, see Powerstock 139 way 179 Regis ~4 stiock 139 West Moors, see Verwood 180 Windsor - Little, see Woodcutte, see Handley 87 Yetman'sBarn,see ChesilWest Moors, see West Broadwindsor 45 Woodcutts, see Hinton borne 58 Parley 125 Winfrith Newburgh 210 Martel..................... 90 Yetminster,orYatminster 219 West Morden Il6 Winterborne Abbas 210 Woodlands 214 Yondover, see Lower Weston, see Buckhorn Winterborue Anderstone, Woodrow, see Haselbury Loders 100 Weston 46 see Anderson 19 Bryan 88

LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL SEATS IN DORSETSHIRE, With Reference to the Places under which they will be found in this Volume. ----+---- Hin'ton St. Mary .•......•.••..••.. .•. .•.... ... ....•...•..•.•. ..• 91 Holme priory, Dowager Lady Meysey-Thompson, see East Holme .................•........•..•..•.......•...•......... 9I Holnest park, Wanley Ellis Sawbridge-Erle-Drax esq. J. P. see Holnest .•.•••... .••.••.••. .••••.••.••.•••••.•.•••.••.•• 91 Holwell Manor house, Edmund Henry Gadesden esq. see Holwell •••..•.......•• ••.••••••••.•• •••.••••....•• 92 73 Dewlish house, Lady Michel, see Dewlish ~....... 67 Down house (The), Sir WilIiam Henry Smith-Marriott bart. J.P. !ree Blalldford St. Mary 31 Down wood, Major-Gen. Lambert Henry Denne D.L. J.P. see Langton ....••..•.•...•..•.••....•........•..••....•..•• 97 Downe hall, Alfred William Hounsell Dammers esq. J.P. see Bridport ••..•....... .•............. 40 Eastbrook, Maurice William Portman esq. see Upway 179 Eastbury ho. Mrs. Farquharson, see Tarrant GunvilIe.. 173 Edmondsham Manor house, Hector Monro esq. D.L., J.P. see Edmondsham '" 77 Encombe, Earl of Eldon D.L., J.P. see Kingston......... 95 Fairfield, Capt. Campbell Munro J.P. see Lyme Regis Ic6 Fifehead house, Sir Harold Pelly bart. J.P. see Fifehead Magdalen .••.•.....••..•..• 79 Fleet house, Sir Henry Peto bart. see Fleet ............... 79 Fontmell, Henry Syndercome Bower esq. J.P. see Child Okeford ....•..•.......•••....•...........•..•..•......•..• 120 Culeaze, Wm. Frederick Radclyffe esq. see Bere Regis CulIiford house, Reginald Douglas Thornton esq. J.P. see Dorchester .......•..•..••....•..•.•••......••..•.•.•••••••.•• Forde abbey, William Herbert Evans esq. M.A., F.R.G.S., D.'L., J.P. see Thorncombe 175 Frampton court, Algernon Thomas Brinsley Sheridan esq. D.L., J.P. see Frampton r .•.....•.•••.••.•......•.••.•• 80 Frome Whitfield house, Lieut.-Gen.j Shurlock Henning C.B., J.P. see Dorchester ..•..•.•..........•••.••......•••... 73 Furzebrook, Laurence Warburton iPike esq. J.P. see Church Knowle .••••••..... .••.•..•.••...•.•••••••••••••••.•.•• 61 ,PAGB Clyffe, Edwd. Leigh Kindersleigh esq. J. P. see Tincleton 176 Compton house, Colonel John Robert Phelips Goodden D. L., J. P. see Over Compton •.•...•.•.•......•.......••..•. 62 Coneygar, Thomas Alfred Colfox esq. J.P. see Bridport 40 Corfe Castle Manor house, William Angustus Rixon esq. & Lady Bolton, see Code Castle.............. 63 Code hill, John Thresher esq. J.P. see Radipole 143 Court house, Mrs. Legge, see Litton Cheney............... 99 Court house, Reginald Chandos Pole esq. J.P., M.F.H. see Sydling St. Nicholas .•.....•..•.........•.....•..•.•••.•.•• 171 Cranborne lodge, Mrs. Tregonwell, see Cranborne....... 66 Cranborne Manor house, James C. Colvin esq. see Cranborne...... •.. .••.•. 66 Creech grange, Nathaniel Bond esq. D.L., J.P. see Steeple .•. ... ..•...........•.••..•.......•. .•.•••.•...•....•. .....• 160 Crichel house, Lord Alillgton M.A., D.L., J.P. see More Crichel ....•..............................•..............., 66 24 64 Graston, John Husseyesq. J.P. see Burton Bradstock 48 Greenhill house, Major James John Loudon McAdam J. P. see Sherborne .••.••. " •••.••.•.. '" " .••...I I.... 153 Grosvenor lodge, Major-Gen. William Noel Waller R.A., J.P. see Sherborn.e •......•..............•......•....•• 154 Haddon lodge, Dalton Haskoll Serrall esq. J.P. see 55 Caundle Soonrton .••....., '" ..•.•....... ..•..• ..• 52 43 Handford house, Mrs. Livingstone-Learmonth, see Hanford .•...•..•....•.....••.•. '.........••.•. 88 55 Haselbury Bryan Manor house, Rev. Richard BUl'don 57 M.A. see Haselbury Bryan 88 Henbury house, Mrs. Parke, see Sturminster Marshall 165 58 Herringston house, Edward Wilmot Williams esq. RA., 59 D.L.,J.P.& theHon. Mrs.see Winterborne Herringston 2II Hethfelton, John William Townsend Fyler esq. D.L., J.P. see East Stoke .......................•.......•...•....••..• 161 High cliff, Arthur Lister esq. J.P. seeLyme Regis ...... 106 Hinton Manor house, Lieut.-Col. John Mansel J.P. see Gaunts house, Sir Richard George Glrn bart. D.L.,J.P. see Hinton Martel............................................. go So Glendon, Major-Gen. Charles Powlett Lane D.L., J.P. see Corfe Mullen .....•..........................•...., . 51 50 II6 CharleUlont, In.Roberts Furmedge esq. see Broadmayne Charlton manor, Thomas Horlock Bastard esq. see Charlton Marshall ..•......•••......•.•...•...••..•......•..•..• Catherstone house, Lieut.-Col. John Bullen Symes Bullen J.P. see Catherstone Leweston . Cattistock lodge, Henry Hamilton Palairet esq. J.P. see Cattistock .....•.......................•....••..•...........•..•..• 50 Caundle Purse Manor house, Lionel Grant Henshaw esq. see Caundle Purse . Chalmington house, Geo. Hugh Digby esq. see Cattistock Charborough park, Mrs. Erle-Drax, see Morden ......... Chardstock house, Edward Stanhope Rodd esq. J.P. S~ (JllarCls~lt.•.........•..•.•..••.•..•.•.•.••.....••••.••.•..•• Cheddington court, Sir Hy. Peto bart. see Cheddington Chetnole honse, Major William George Digby Wing~ field-Digby J. P. see Chetnole . Chettle house, Edward Cay Adams esq. see Chettle .. Chideock Manor house, Humphrey Frederick Weld esq. J.P. see Chideock ...•......•... .......•••••.••..•.•••••.•••••... 60 Child Okeford house, Nathaniel Surtees esq. see Child Okeford .•.... ... .•. ....••... ..•..........•••.•... .... .•...... .•. .•• 120 Child Okeford Manor house, Hon. Claud Berkeley Portman, see Child Okeford •••••••••••••••••••••••..••..•.••.••••• 120 Chilfrome house, John Hargreaves esq. see Chilfrome... 61 Christowell,H. K. Hitchcock esq. M.D.• J.P. seeBranksome park ..•..•..........•..., ..•..•... ..• 35 Cliff house, John Wm. Preston esq. J.P. see Lyme Regis 106 Cluny, Kenneth L. M. Anderson esq. J.P. see Swanage 169 Bryanston house, Right Hon. Viscount Portman J.P. see Bry-anston •••.•..•...•..•.•..•••••.••..........••.••..••••.•• 4S Buckshawe house, Colonel the Hon. Everard Charles Digby, see Holwell .••..•..•.••..•.•..••.••..•..•.••....•••••.•• 92 Came house, Earl of Portarlington D.L., J.P. see Winterborne Came.......................•................•..... 211 Canford manor, Lord Wimbome M.A., D.L., J.P. see Canford Magna •....•............•............ .....• 49 Castle hilI, Thomas Holford esq. D.L., J.P. see BucklaIld ~e~Il...................................................... ~7 Boveridge house, Dudley Hy. Ryder esq. see Cranborne Bowditch house, Capt. WilJiam King J.P. see Chardstock Bradford Peverill house, Hastings Nathaniel Middleton esq. D.L., J.P. see Bradford Peverill 33 Branksea castle, Captain Kenneth Robert Balfour, see Branksea ...........................•..............•..............,. 34 Bressingham, Arthur Pontifex esq. J.P. see Parkstone 123 Bridehead, Colonel Robert WilliamsM.P., D.L., J. p. see Littlebredy ...•......••... .•••....•.....•.•••••.••...•.••.•••••.•• 99 Brookdale, Wilham Waterman esq. J.P. see Broadstone 49 Brooklands, George Frederick Pinney esq. J.P. see Beaminster ...•............................................•.....• 22 Beryth, Capt. Thomas Russell J.P. see Beaminster ..... 22 Bincleaves, Geo. Edward Eliot esq. J. P. see Weymouth 192 Bingham Melcombe house, Col. Richard Charles William Bingham, see Melcombe Bingham 113 Binnegar hall, Mrs. Farrer, see East Stoke 162 Birkin house, Reginald Thornton esq. J.P. see Stinsford 160 Blackdown house, Edwd.Pinneyesq: J.P. see Blackdown 45 Blandford St. Mary Manor house, Lieut.-Col. Franeis James Stuart-Gray J.P. see Blandford St. Mary ...... 31 Bloxworth house, Col. Jocelyn Pickard-Cambridge J.P. see Bloxworth ........•.......••................................• 31 66 SS PAGE Abbotsbury castle, Right Hon. Earl of Ilchester P.C. see Abbotsbury .....•....•. .•. .••......................•. 17 Alderholt pk. Geo. O. Churchill eS1. J.P. see Alderholt 18 Ashmore cottage, Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Lloyd Howard C.R, D.L., J.P. see Ashmore 19 Athelhampton hall, Alfred C. de Lafontaine esq. see Athelhampton ..........•............•..........•••.• 20 Beaminster Manor house, Mrs. Cox, see Beaminster.... 21 ,Beeches (The), Geo. Hy. Gordon esq. J.P. see Sherborne 153 Belfield house, Samuel Ashton Pretor, esq. J.P. see Wyke Regis ..........•.....•....•••.•...........•..•..•.••.•••••• 218 Belfield park. Charles Holland esq. see Wyke Regis...... 218 BeUair, Albert Thompson Adams esq. J.P. see Whitchurch Canonicorum .............•.... .•. ..•.•..•. ... .••.•. .•• 202

000 XXVlll LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL SEATS IN DORSETSHIRE. PAGE Hooke court, Earl of Sandwich J .P. see Hooke ••. ...... 93 Hyde (The), Joseph Gundry esq. J.P. see Bothenhampton... 32 Hyde house, Charles James Radclyffe esq. J.P. see J3ere Itegis .••.•..•..••.••.......•••....•......••••••••.•••.•......, 2~ Ilsington house, William Ernest Brymer esq. M.P., M.A., J. P. see Puddletown •.. .....•... .•• 141 Iwerne Mmster house, Right Hon. Lord Wolverton D.L., J.P. see Iwerne Minster ............•.•............... 94 Kendals (The), George B. Matthews esq. see Gillingham 82 Kingston house, Mrs. Fellowes, see Stinsford. 160 Kingston Lacy, Waiter Balph Bankes esq. D.L., J.P. see Pamphill 122 Knap (The), Mrs. Broadley, see Bradpole 33 Knighton, W. A. Heber Percy esq. see Durweston 77 Knoll (The), Henry John Mills esq. see Code Mullen 64 Langton house, James John :Farquharson esq. D.L., J.P. see Langt.on •.......•..................................•..•• 97 Langton lodge, Alexander Edward Lane Fox-Pitt esq. J.P. see Langton ...•.•.......••.................•....4.......... 97 Langton Herring Manor house, William Sparkes, esq. D.L., J.P., M.S.A. see Langton Herring 98 Lewcombe house, Charles Crew, see East Chelborough 57 LeweU lodge, Col. Albert Williams R.A. see West ]8(Ili~lI~Il .•...•.....•.••.••.......•••••.•.........••....•.•••••.•• ~" Leweston house, Robert Whitehead esq. see Lillington 99 Longthorns, Colonel Edmund Morton Mansel-Pleydell J.P. see Milborne St. Andrew II4 Lorton, Rev. John Moore Bridge, see Broadway......... 44 Lulworth castle, Williaml Dalglish Bellasis esq. see ~aust ~1l1lVortll •.••••••••••••••••.•••••••••.•••••••••••••••••••••• !C>3 Lytchett Heath house, Lord Eustace Brownlow Henry Gascoigne Cecil J. P. see Lytchett Maltravers ......... 108 Mainsail haul, Countess of Shaftesbury, see Wimborne ~t. <riles.....•...........•.....•....•..•.....••..•.•......•.•.....•• 2~ Mangerton house, Campbell Fortescue. Stapleton Sanctuary esq. J.P. see Melplash II3 Manston house, Lord Magheramorne. see Manston 109 Mapperton house, Rev. Paulet IMildmay Compton RA. see Mapperton ... .....•.••...........•..•.............••......... 110 Marshwood Manor house, In. Bullen Tatchell TatchellBullen esq. J.P. see Mal'shwood III Melbury house, Right Hon. Earl of Ilchester P.C. see Melbnry Sampford................ .....•........................ I I 2 Merly hall, Miss Wienholt & Miss Ellen Wienholt, see Canford Magna ..............•..•.........................•.....• 49 Milton lodge, William Kaye, esq. see Gillingham......... 82 Minterne house, Lord Digby J. P. see Minterne Magna... 115 Moreton hoose, Rupert Pennefather FeatherstonhaughFrampton esq. D.L., J.P. see Moreton I17 Motcombe house, Right Hon. Lord Stalbridge P.C., J.P. see Motcombe... .•. .... .•. ••••.. ... .•...• ... ..• I 17 Nash court, Capt. Edwin Greenwood Hardy, see Marnhull...•..........•.•....•..............................•...........•• 110 PAGE Sandford, Mrs. Rodgett, see Wareham 182 Sandley, Capt. Geoffrey Phipps-Hornby J.P. see Gil· lingham....••.•.••..•. ••.....••...•...•.......•...•........•• 82 Sherborne castle, John Kenelm Digby Wingfield-Digby esq. M.P., J.P. see Sherborne 15] Sherborne house, Gen. Sir Julius Richard Glyn K.C.B. see Sherborne ...........•.•........•...•.............•••••....•• J53 Slape house, Fredk. WalterGundryesq. see Netherbury II8 Smedmore, Col. George Pleydell Mansel D.L., J.P. see Kimmeridge .••.•.••...•.....•.•.•...•••...•.....•.....••••.••.•.• 95 Somerleigh,Sir Edward Robert Pearce-Edgcumbe LL.D., J. P. see Dorchester ... .•. ...•...•..•.••. ... ... .•..•. ...•.•... .. . 73 South Lytchett house, Elliott Lees esq. M.P., M.A.,J.P. see Lytchett Minster .•...• 108 Southover hl,)use, Mrs. Crane, see 'folpuddle ,. 178 Stafford honse, George William Floyer esq. RA., J.P. see West Stafford.•.........•....••.•..•........•..••.•••...•...• 158 Steepleton house, The Hon. Misses Pitt, see Steepleton Iwerne....•••••.•........•.........•...•.............•...•.•..••••.• lOO Steepleton manor, Henry Stilwell esq. J.P. see Winterboume Steepleton 213 Sterte house, William Douglas Dugdale esq. see . Longfleet ••....... ..•...... .•.............••.••.... ..• ]01 Stinsford house, Llewellyn England Sidney Parry esq. see 8tinsford..................... 160 Stock Hill house, Alfred Thomas Manger esq. J.P. see Gillingham.. .•................ •••.•...• 82 Stock house, Major Arthur George Dugdale R.A., J.P. see Stock Gaylard......... ....•...............•.••.... 161 Stokeford, Maj. John William Bain Hawkesworth J.P. see East Stoke........•. .....•....•.... .•....•.......•... ..•...•.• 162 Sutton Waldron house, Hon. Fredk. Canning Lascelles, see Button Waldron.................. .•....................•...• 168 Symondsbury Manor house, Arthur Bond esq. see Symondsbury .......•............•....••...........•...........• ]72 Tarrant Gunville Manor house, Francis Hughes-Gibb esq. J.P. see Tarrant (iunviUe 173 Thorngrove, James :Frederick Ray esq. J.P. see Gillingham................ ......... ...•... ... ......... ... ..•......• 82 Thornhill house, Gen. Sir William Parke K.C.B., J.P. see Stalbridge • ..• 158 Tillworth house, Thomas Barnes esq. J.P. see Hawkchurch #...... 89 Totnell, Thomas Ffooks esq. see Leigh 99 Turnworth house, Lieut.-Col. Uvedale Edward ParryOkeden J.P see Turnworth 178 Tyneham house, Rev. John Bond M.A. see Tyneham 178 Up Cerne house, The Hon. Mary T. Digby, see Up Ceme 53 Upway house, Bruno Butler Bowdon esq. see Upway 179 Upwood, Capt. Henry Aubrey Cartwright J.P. see Handley " .. ..•• 87 Verwood Manor house, William RoUes Fryer esq. J.P. see Verwood " " "............................ 180 Westbrook, Arthur Ilbert esq. see Upway 179 We~tfield, Col. Augustus Berkeley Portman J.P. see Wimborne....•............•......................................• 206 Westhall, Norman McLean esq. see Folke 79 Westhaye, William Charlesworth esq. J.P. see Hawk. chuTch " •.•.•. .•• 89 Westmead,William Colfox esq. RA., J.P. see Bridport.. 40 Westmead, Richard ffolliott Eliot esq. J.P., D.L. see Radipole ............•....••........ ".......................... I43 Westrow, MrlY. Warry, see Holwell........................... 9:1 Whatcombe house, John ClaveU Mansel-Pleydell esq. RA., D.L., J.P. see Winterborn Whitchurch ......... 214 White house, Lieut.-Col. John Moont Batten J.P. see Up CeJIle......•....••.•.....•••.......................•..,. 53 WinterborneClenstone Manor house, Major.Gen. Edwd. Musgrave Beadon, see Winterborne Clenstone 2II Winterborne St. Martin Manor house, Major Charles Sinclair Shephard, see Winterborne St. Martin In:l Wolfeton hoose, Wynne Albert Bankes esq. D.L., J.P. see Charminster...•.... ".•.....................•.... "."......... 56 Woodlands, Joseph Alfred Hardcastle esq. J.P. see Beaminst,er ".......... .. . .. . 22 Woodleaze, Capt. Csrr Stuart Glyn J.P. see Wimborne 206 Woolland house, Montague Scott Willlams esq. J .P. see Woolland 216 Wrackleford house, Alfred Pope esq. see Stratton 164 Wyke hall, Mrs. Whitehead, see Gillingham............... 82 Wyke house, Rev. Fredk. Tufnell M.A. seeWyke Regis 218 Wykes court, WilIiam Hounsell esq. J.P. see Bridport.. 40 Yarrells (The), Frederick Styringesq. J.P. see Lytchett Min.s'ter••••..., _ Jo8 Walton Elm, R. Bouchier James esq. see Marnhul1 III 55 Warmwell house, Henry Jephson esq. see WarmweU...• 185 West lodge, Major-Gen. Charles Edward Astell J.P. see Puddlehinton .....•..........•....•.•...................."......• 140 West Blagdon, Henry Francis Brouncker esq. J.P. see Cranborne................... 66 Trenthide.....,...•......................................•......... Newlands, Major-Gen. Sir Charles WaIters D'Oyly bart. J.P. see Charlton Marshall . Rampisham manor, Arthur Martin esq. J.P. see Rampisham.............................•..•...•......................•. 143 Ranston, Rev. Canon Sir Talbot Hastings Bendall Baker bart. M.A. see Iwerne Courtnay............................ 94 Rempstone hall, William Montagu Calcraft esq. J.P. see Corfe Castle....................................................... 63 Sadborow, Capt. John Arthur Bragge J.P. see Thorncombe ...........•.................•.................. '" .•. 175 St. Giles's house, Earl of Shaftesbury, see Wimborne St. Giles........•....................-...............•..•..••..•..... 209 St. Martins, Dr. Allan McLean J.P. see Weymouth...... 193 Swanage.......... ..............•............................ 169 Nordons, Abraham Rooke James esq. J.P. see Bothenhampton...................•.•..••........•...........•...... 32 Nottington house, Col. Richard OliveI' Francis Steward J.P. see R-adipole•.••.•.•••..••..••..•••••.••..•••...•••..•...••. 143 Old Manor house, Miss Tuck, see Dewlish 67 Onslow, Major-Gen. Bobert Holt Truell C.B., J.P. see Wimborne........................... 207 Osmington house, George Montgomery Archdale esq. see Osmington ...... ..•..•.••• ... .... ...•.•.••... .••. ..•.•..•... .•...• 121 Osmington lodge, Lieut.·Col. Charles Thomas Hall, see Osmington 121 Park Homer, ::Mrs. Paget, see Hampreston.~............... 86 Parnham house, Vice-Adml. Robert O'Brien FitzRoy C.B. see Beaminster _.... 21 Pennsylvania castle, J. Merrick Head esq. see Portland 136 Post Green house, Henry Pomeroy Bond esq. see Lytchett Minster J08 Puncknowlemanor, GeorgeMorton Mansel esq. J.P. see Puncknowle.... ..•.••..•.••... ....•.... ..•... .••..•...... .••.•.••• 142 Purbeck house, The Misses Burt, see Swanage............ 169 Pydel-Trenthide Manor house, Mrs. Bridge, see PydelNewton manor, Sir John Charles Robinson F.S.A. see

• ----.---- DORSETSHIRE takes its name from the shire town, or from the tribe of the Dorsrettas, and lies on the llQuth coast of England, being in the west, between Hampshire and Devonshire. On the north-east it is bounded by 'Wiltshire, on the east by Hampshire, on the south by the English Channel, on the we-st by Devonshire, and on the north-west by Somersetshire. The shore line is the only natural boundary; its sha.pe is something like a pyramid, with the head to the west, but having a spur on the south side, which forms the Isle of Portland. The breadJth, from east t() west, is 54 miles;. and the length, from north to south, varies from 5 to 40 miles; its area is 632,272 acres. In 1700 the population was 9°,000; in 1801, II4,452; in 185 I, 184,2°7; in 1861, 188,789; in 11871, 195,537; in t88I, 191,028; and in 1891, 194,517, viz. male's, 94,73'5; females, 99,782. The number of houses were, inhalbited, 4°,9°4; uninhabited, 3,081; and building, 221. Dorset lies between 50~ 30' and 5IQ 5' north latitude, and between IQ 48' and 3° 7' west longitude. The south .shQre is in two linelS, a wide sweep trending sourth-easterly from Lyme Regis to the Bill or Beel of Portland, and the wes1tern part, which forIns a deep bay within the Isle of Portland, called WeymoUII:h Bay, and then runs easterly to St. Alban's Head and Durleston Head, having in it Lulwor't1h Oove and Kimmeridge Bay. From Durlest-on Head the shore runs northward along the east of the Isle of Purb8{lk, and forms Swanage Bay and Studhmd Bay, and then the mouth of Poole Harbour. The Ls1e of Portland is a long narrow headland, extending south-ea,sterly into the sea, and joined to the mainland by a spit 10 miles long, called the Chesil-thlrt is to say, the Shingle Bank. The Lsle of Pur'beck is a large tract joined to the mainland on the west, but on the other side bounded by the river Frome, Wareham and Poole Havens, and the sea. Poole Haven is a large inlet in the, 'sQu'th-e~st of Dorset-shire, having many arms running up into the land; {)n one is Wareham, at the mouth of the Frome and Piddle, and on another, P{)ole. The rainfall of Dors~t is about 30 inches in the year, but raither less in the norbhern part. Daily measuremenis are taken by means of rain-gauges at 13 places. The climate is mild, especially along the c{)ast. The great rivers run across from north-west to southeast; they are the Stour, P[ddle and Frome. The Stl()ur comes in at the north, passes Gillingham, take.s the Shreen water, t'hen the Cale from Wincanton, and tlhe Lyd, or Lyddon, from t'he south, wind,s through Sturminster Newton (taking the Ewern), to BI.andford Forum, below which fall in the '!'arrant Bourne from the north, and the North Winlter Hourne from the west; the course ~s then to Wimbourne, where the Wim, or Alien, join's, and the river then runs south-ea~erly to Christchurch, in Hampshire; it is more likety that the Wlim, or Alien, was the Alauna of the Romans, than thalt the Stour was. The Wim is the only considerabJe stream; it works a paper mill. The Piddfe, Puddle, or Trentt, lies between the Stour and the :Frome, and is a small .stream running in a paraHel direction with the Frome, about 4 miles off, and falling imo Poole Harbour; it give's its name as an affix to m'clny villages. The Frame, anciently named the Varia, rises in the north-west, and flows to D{)rchester, where the Churn B{)urne comes in from Ceme or Churn Abbas; the South Winterhourne is another feeder; from Dorchester the Frome Tuns easterly to Wareham; it is in tUlese western shires we meet with the class of streams called" winterbournes," because they flow chiefly in the winter. Other stre'ams are-the Wey, 5 miles long, falling int{) the sea at Weymouth; the Purbeck, 7 miles long, running from Corfe Castle to Swanage; the Fleet, flowing be-tween the Chesil Bank and the main land; the Breedy, or Bride, 7 miles long, falling into the sea near Bridport Htirl){lUr; the Brit, or Bride, rising at :Beam:inster, flowing ,through Bridiport into the !Sea, and having the Asker and other smaN streams as afHuent-s; the Char, falling in at Charmouth; and the Lyme at LYllle Regis. In the north-westt parts the Parret, Ivel and theh' headsprings rise, but their course in DOI'lSetshire is. short. Near Broadway is a sulphureous spring named N{)btington Spa. The land is hilly, but wen w8itered. Th& vale of Blackmore, or that of the Frame and Piddle, is a fruitful goozing ground, nearly 20 miles long and 14 broad; 001 the Downs sheep are fed. The oSOils are of many kmds, from rich loam to hard stone. The chalk formation covers the greater part of the 'Shire, the n1lrth downs beginning a,t Cranb:ourne and running to Bee~ minster, and the south downs ronning from Beaminster to Melcomhe and Swanage. Between these are the upper formation of pla'sHc, pO'tters' and pipe clay, and sand, called the "Poole Trough." Here a light earthy coal is found, like Rovey cool; in <the ,south, chalk, marl.. green-sand, wellid clay and iron-sand are found, and in Purbeck and Portland the oo1i:te forma'tiollS; westward of Weymouth Bay are the oo11tes, Wlhich form a. "saddle," and are repeatted; in the north the green~ sand is found. Dorsetshire yields Portland stone, Purbeck marble, lime, founders' sand, ir<Jn-sand, copperas, alum, p()ottery clay, pipeclay, firebricks, bituminous. shales, salt, sheep and cattle, wool, corn, hay, potatoes and cider. It is best known for its Dorset. Portland and South Down sheep; it ha,s a1s'O a small breed of ponies. The dairy is much looked to, &, ~rge proportion of the land being in pasture, and the butter·and cheese of DOl"setshire are much esteemed. In Cranborne ChaslI and in Sellwood, to the north of Sha,ftesbury, some timber is grown; but most of the woods have been cleared. Lime, sea-weed, and fish are to be had in most parts. for manures, and for meadows the catchwater plan is used. Barley is more grown than whea.t; hemp and flax are likewise grown. The railways aTe the Southampton and Dorche,ster, belonging to the London and Soutlh Western .Company; the Somerset and Dorset line from Burnham, Somel\Set, to Wimborne and Poole, passing through S'taLbridge.. Sturminster Newton and Blandrford. The London and SoU!th Western Extension 1:10 Exalter and North DeVO'Il has s'tat:ions at Gillingham and Sherborne, and skirts ihe north of the county. The Dorse'tismre line enters from Ringwood, in Hampshire, and passes Wimborne (wiJtlb. a branch to Poole and West Bournemouth), WaNham (with a branch t-o Swanage),' Wool and Moreton to Dorche-ster, thence t(} Weym-ourth and Portland. The Great Western Company have a branch t{) Dorchester and Weymouth, conneoted with thmr line at Yeovlil, and from thence to Bristol; another branch from Ma[den Nemon to Bridport; and a shol"t line from Upway, on ilhe Weym(}uth branch of the South Western line to Abootsbury. The manufactures are sail-eloth, -sacking, nets, shoemakers' thread, paper, silk and agricultural implements, carried on at Bridport, Beamintster, Blandford, B1lurton, GilLingham, Sherborne, W'imborne and Dorehesier; with moaltting and brewing. The potteries are of some imJ portance. In some of the large towns are iron foundries. Ships and yachts. are built at PooIe. The chief fisheries are those of mackerel; oyJSlterbeds are likewise kept up. In the riveTS, salmon, tront, ja.ck and eel}s aro caught. The fishing towns axe Poole, Swan'llge, LuIworth, Weymouth, Bridport and Lyme. The import trade is in th& ,supply (}f coal-s, timber and wine, with some Newfoundland trade. The exporh are Purbeck and Portland stone, clay, many thQusand tons of which aTe annually lSent to the potteries, Porrtland cement, bricks, sheep, wool, butter, poultry, chee€e, ale, cider and mackerel. DORSET 1-

4 DORSETSHIRE. [KELLY'S Allington Akerswell Bothenhampton Bradpole Bridport Charmouth, many fight,s to'ok place with the Danish rovers. In the Parliamentary War ,the gentry took part with the King, and held out in many sieges and fights, in which their castles were ruined; the townsmen sided with the Parliament; but the country people held aIoof from both King and Parliament, and formed companies of "olubmen" to keep them off. Dorseotshire had formerly many rich. and old abbeys of Benedictine,s and Oistercians; among those were Shailtesbury, S'herborne, Cerne, Abbo'tsbury, Bindon, Cranbome, Horton and Mitton; likewise priories at Dorchester, Bridport, Wareham, Loders, Frampton and Spettisbury. Slherborne was the see of a bishop from 705 to 107$. The-re are still some Catholic nunneries and chapels well endowed by the wealthy memlbel'6 of tha.t commumon. The objects (If interest are many; the fvssils of the bles of PU1"beck and Pm'ltland and of Lyme Regis; the shore scenery, Lulworth Cove, and Chesil Bank (the curious spit wihich joins the Isle of Portland to the ma.in); the amphitheatre al; Dorchester; Agglestone, Puckstone, He][gtone, B6dbury Rings, Maumbury; the pits on Bladen Hooth; the eartthworks surrounding Wareham; the figure OIll the GUant's Hill, near Ceme, which is an ancient figure cut in outline on the chalk, 180 feet long; at Osmingtton is 8. f!imilar figure of a horse and rider covering an acre of ground, representing George Ill. on horseback; the churches at Shaftesbury, Sherborne and Wimlbome; and the remlIIins ()f the abbeys and priories. The Registration districts are: - - Name. Area. Pop. 18gl. Sbaftesbury 37,247 u,840 Sturminster 39,342 9,583 Blandford 60,582 13,375 Wimborne 82,911 17,886 Poole 25,284 25,831 Wareham 92,521 16,580 Weymouth 33,803 32 , 629 Dorchester U6,I59 24,484 Sherborne 40,013 12,383 Beaminster 54,638 10,366 Bridport 33,1°3 14,°38 - - No. 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 The following is a list of the several poor law unions with the parishes contained in them :- UNION OF BEAMIKSTER. Beaminster Melbnry Sampford Bettiscombe Misterton (Somerset) Broadwinsor Mosterton Burstock Netherbury Cheddington North Poorton Corscombe Pilsdon East Chelborough Poorstock Evershot Rampisham Halstock Seaborough (Somerset) Hook South Perrott Mapperton Stoke Abbot, or Stoke Abbas Marshwood West Chelborough Melbury Osmond Wraxall UNION OF BLA.NDFORD. Mmer Stourpaine Anderson, or Winterborne Tarrant Crawford Anderson .Tarrant Gunville Blandford Forum Tarrant Hinton Blandfol'd St. Mary Tarrant Keynston Hryanstone Tarrant Launceston Charlton Marshall Tarrant Monckton Durweston Tarrant Rawston Hilton Tarrant Rushton Iwerne Courtnay, or Shroton Turnworth Langton, Long Blandford Winterborne Clenstone Milborne St. Andrew Winterborne Houghton Milbome Stileham (hamlet) Winterborne Kingston Milton Abbas Winterbome Stickland. Pimperne Winterborne Thomson Spetisbury Winterborne Whitchurch SteepletonIwerne, or Steeple- Winterborne Zelstone ton Preston UNION OF BRIDPORT. Burton Bradstock Catherstone Leweston Chideock Chilcombe Litton Cheney The inhabitants on the coast depend on the fisheries, quarries and vi:sitors to the watering places. These last are Weymouth, Swanage, Lyme Regis and Parkstone. The havens are Poole, Warehiam, Swanage, Weymouth, BrddpOllt, Lyme and Studl'and Bay; but Lyme has much fullen off. A breakwater has been made in Portland Bay, 'so as to form a great harbour of refuge over agains't Cherbourg, capable of shel,tering 200 vesseLs in safety; it extends 21 miles out to s,ea, and forms a l"oadstead 4 miles long. The county contaans 292 civil parishes. Dorset-shire is in the Wes'tern Circuit, province o-f o.mterbury, Salisbury diocese, and forms an archdeaconry, subdivided into the rural deaneries of Bridport, comprised in ·the AbbotS/bury, Bridport, Lyme and Beamin'ster portions; Dorchester, in the Dorchester, Weymouth and Purbeck portions; Pimperne, in the Blandford and Wimbome portions; ShaJfteSlbury, arranged in ShaJltesbury, Stallbl'lidge, Sherborne and Sturminster Newton porti'Ons; and Wh~tchurch (Bere Regill, Pooole, Cerne and Milton) portions.- The ,town of Poole is a cou.nJf:y of itself. DOl'sebsih~re has one Court of Quarter Sessions, h8Jld at DorcheSiter and Poole, and forms nine pet!ty sessional divis~ol1JsBlandlford' (N'Orth and ,South), Bridport, Cerne, Dorchester, Shaftesbury, Sherborne, Sturminster, Wareham and Wimbom'e. The Poor-law Unions are twelve BoominSlter, Blandford, Bridpol't, Ceme, Dorchester, Poole, Sh"<lJftesbury, Sherbome, ,Stul'IllJiDJs'ter, Wareham and Pnrbeck, Weymouth and Wtimborne. The municipal boroughs are, Blandford, population in 1891, 3,974; Bridport, 6,611; DorcheSlter, 7,946; Lyme Regis, 2,365; Poole, 15,438; Shaftesbury, 2,122; Wey- m~:mth and Melcombe Regis, 13,866; and Wareham, 2,14I. Other towns are, Beamin8lter, population in 1891, 1,915; Bere Regis, 1,144; Ceme Abbas, 834; Corfe Cas·tle, 1,7°8; Cl'llmbome, 2,395; Gillipgham, 3,3°3; Sherborne, 5,690; S'ta1bnidge, 1,70.5; S'turminSlter Newton, 1,863; 8Jld Swanage, 2,674' Dor,setshire .seems to have been taken from the Britons by the Belgian Durotriges, likewise cailed Morini, which WOI'ds are .said to mean "dwellers by the sea." Of the Brit'On's and Belgians there seem to be many remains 90'S Ag-g(Iesltone and Puckstone, near Studland, in the Isle of Pur'beck; POl'tishiam Cromlech, called HellsOOne, a. circle of stones near Winterbome St. Martin; another noor PokesweU, and another at Lit'tile Breedy; perhaps Bad'bury Rings and Maumbury belong to this period. Under the Romans it was a part of Britannli'll Prima, and they had many ,settlemenlts, as Durnovaria (Dorchester), MoriIrio (Wareham), Vindio Gladia (Wimborne). Canes Ar[sta (Oharm'Outh), Londinis (Lyme Regis), Bolclanio (P.oole), and Clavin[o (Weymouih). Other settlement,s were A~<:e'ster, Stoborough, Charborough, Chelborough, Gainslborough, Bedcister, Horchesier, Hogcheslter. A great road, named by the English the Ikening, or Ikenield way (Vtia. Iceniana), comes in by Woodyates, passes through Durnovaria, and goes to the weS't. At Durn'O'V'llria, the most famous remain is the amphiJthe'll'tre. The part of IkeDiing way, near Dorcheslfier, called Ackling Dike, is in fair pre· ..erv-ation. On the downs and cliffs are many camps and barrows, Bci.tish, Belgian, Roman or Engl[.sh; among these are Badbury oand M1aumbury, those on the Stour between SturmiusJ'ter and (Bradford, Wea'therbury, Eggardon, Loosebarrow, Rowbarrow, Shaftesbury, Me~bury, Hazelbury, Sp~tisbury, Chalbury, Abbatsbury, Ne'thel'bnry, Symond.sbury, Hamilton Hin, Worbarrow, Woolbarrow, Churchfbiarrow, FlowerS'oor11Ow, W:ard'Stonebarrow, Blackbarrow, Woodbury, Bo1tonbarrow, Banbury, We!lltbury, Fj~ury, Lushbarrow, Conquerbarrow, Laurenceibarrow, Churchbarrows, Seabarrow, Poundbury, Knapbarrow, Bullbarrow, DOOsbury, Broodfordlbiarrow, Barrow Hill, Henbury, Strawbarr()w, Kingbarrow, Ballbarrow, Greatbarrow, EgertoIlibarrow, Boors'bllrrow, Longbarrow,Stable. barrow, Powbarrow, BridweHoorrow, Ml8werbury, Buzbury, Eastbury and Westbury, near Tarrant Gunville, Thorncombe, Bee.lon, Mowmmsharrow, Tadnollbarrow, l.k>l"dslbarrow, Endbarrow, Youbarrow. Cernebarrow, Stonebarrow, Swyrselbar1"Ow, Oholbury, Hakebury, Swan Knoll, Round Pound, Five M'eersbarrow, and Mawerbury. :Many te&sel6lted p6vements, dso pottery and Roman coins, have been found. The whole number of Roman camps hals been reckoned at 25. After the tall of the Bomans and Britons this shire became parI; of the kingdom of the West Saxons, and the 'See of & bishop; the kings dwelt here lilt Corfe Castle and Kingslton, and in the minsters many of theJID are buried. On the shore near Wareham, Portland and

DIRECTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. 5 2,264 13,139 6,551 15,331 15,87z 823 1,003 n. :Forum & Redborne Hundred........•.....••..........• 31,922 Bere Regis 11,402 Bindon Liberty .. , ,.. 5,53x Blandford Borough (area included in Coombs Ditch Hundred) , .. Bridport Borongh ,. 654 Broadwinsor Liberty.......................................... 6, 214 Brownshall Hundred...... 10,861 Bucknall Newton Hundred 11,940 Ceme, Totcombe & Modbury Hundred .•. ..•..•..•..•..• 10,501 Cogdean Hundred 28,478 Coombs Ditch Hundred 10,748 Corfe Castle Hundred 9,884 Cranborne Hundred .........................................• 34,188 Culliford-Tree Hundred 12,285 Dewlish Liberty......... 2,090 Dorchester Borough 635 Eggerton Hundred......... 11,045 Fordington Liberty... 75 1 Frampton I I ,<>98 George Hundred .. , 16,520 Gillingham Liberty 13,196 Godderthorne Hundred "......................... 2,407 Halstock Liberty................................................ 3,18I Hasilor Hundred... 16,163 Hewdesbarrow Hundred 5,801 Isle of Portland Liberty......•....•.•...•..•..•... 2,890 Knowlwn Hundred " 7,337 Loosebarrow Hundred 9,883 Lothers & Bothenhampton Liberty........................ 4.363 Lyme Regis Borough , 200 Monckton-Up-Wimborne Hundred.....•..•.••.•..••.••.•• lI,n5 Owermoigne Liberty............ 3,271 Pimperne Hundred 24,698 Poole Borough................................................... 5,I I 1 Poorstock Liberty (area included in Eggerton Hundred) . Puddle Linton Liberty . Puddletown Hundred . Puddletrenthide Liberty '" .. Redlane Hundred . Rowbarron Hundroo . Rllshmore Hundred . R~rlne Intrinsica Liberty . East Holme Shitterton tything East Lulworth Steeple East Stoke Studland Holy Trinity (Wareham) Swanage Kimmeridge Turners Puddle Lady St. iiary (Wareham) Tyneham Langton Matravers West Lulworth Morden Winfrith Newburgh Moreton Wool St. Martin (Wareham) Worth Matravers UNION OF WEYMOUTH. Abbotsbury Portisham Bincombe Portland Broadway Poxwell Buckland Ripers Preston Fleet Radipole Langton Herring Upway Melcombe Regis West Chickerell Osmington Weymouth Owermoigne Wyke Regis UNION OF WIMBORNE AND CRANBORNE. Chalbury Horton Chettle Long Critchell Corfe Mullen Moore Critchell Cranborne Pentridge East Woodyates Shapwick Edmonsham Sturminster Marshall Farnham Tollard Farnham tything Gussage All Saints Verwood Gussage St. Michael West Parley Hampreston West Woodyates Handley, or Sixpenny Hand- Wimborne Minster ley Wimborne St. Giles Hinton Marten Witchampton Hinton Parva, or Stanbridge Woodlands Holt . There are 33 Hundreds and 21 Liberties, besides the county of Poole. THE AREA OF THE HUNDREDS AND LIBERTms ARE:- Area. Alcester Liberty (area included in Sixpenny Handley Hundred) . Alton Pancras Liberty.... .•. 2,243 Badbury Hundred 26,880 Reaminster . UNION OF CERNE. Mappowder Melbury Bubb Melcombe Horsey Minterne Magna Nether Cerne Pudletrenthide Pulham Sydling St. Nicholas UplCerne Wootton Glanville Symondsbury Wallditch Whitchurch Canonicorum Wootton Fitzpaine UNION OF DORCHESTER. St. Peter (Dorchester) Stinsford Stratton 'rincleton ToIler Fratrum ToIler Porcorum Tolpuddle Warmwell Watercombe West Knighton West Stafford Whitcombe Winterborne Abbas Winterborne Came Winterborne Herringstone Winterborne Monkton Winterborne St. Martin Winterborne Steepleton Woodsford Wynford Eagle UNION OF POOLE. Lytchett Matravers Lytchett Minster Parkstone tything Poole Beer Hackett Bradford Abbas Castleton Caundle Bishop Caundle Marsh Caundle Purse Chetnole Clifton Maybank Folke Goathill (Somerset) Baydon Bolnest Bolwell Leigh chapelry Leweston Lillington Branksome Canford Magna Hamworthy Kinson Longfleet tything UNION OF SHAFTESBURY. Alcester Iwerne Minster Ashmore Kington Magna Buckhorn Weston Margaret Marsh Cann, or Shaston St. Rum- Melbury Abbas bold Motcombe Compton Abbas Shaftesbury East Orchard Stower Provost East Stower Sutton Waldron Fontmell Magna Todbere Gillingham West Orchard Hartgrove tything West Stower UNION OF SHERBORNB. Long Burton Marston Magna (Somerset) Nether Compton North Wootton Oborne Over Compton Pointington, or Poyntington (Somerset) Rimpton (Somerset) Ryme Intrinsica Sandford Oreas (Somerset) Sherborne Stockwood Thornford Trent (Somerset) Yetminster UNION OF STURMINSTER. Caundle Stourton Manston Child Okeford Mamhull Fifehead Magdalen Okeford Fitzpaine Fifehead Neville Shillingstone, or Shilling OkeHammoon ford Hanford Stalbridge Haselbury Bryan Stock Gayland Hinton St. Mary Stoke Wake Ibberton Sturminster Newton Castle Lydlinch Woolland UNION OF WAREHAM AND PURBECE. Aff Puddle Chaldon Herring Arne Church Knowle Bere Regis Coombe Keynes Bloxworth Corfe Castle Alton Pancras Batcombe Buckland Newton Cottistock CerneAbbas Chesilborne Frome St. Quintin Godmanstone Gore Wood Hermitage Hillfield Loders Puncknowle Shipton Gorge Stanton St. Gabriel Swyre Athelhampstone All Saints (Dorchester) Bradford Peverell Broadmayne Burlestone Charminster Chilfrome Compton Abbas Compton Vallence Dewlish Fordington Frampton Frome Vauchurch Holy Trinity (Dorchester) Kingston Russell Little Bredy Long Bredy Maiden Newton Puddlehinton Puddletown

6 DORSETSHIRE. • [KELLY'S • Shaftesbury Borough....,, ... I ••••••••••• 11 •• 1 •• " ••••••••• '" The following is a list of the hundreds and liberties, with the parishes contained in them:- Alton PancrllJs liberty:-Alton Pancras. Badbury:-Chalbury, Gussage St. Michael, Hint{)n Martell, Hinton Parva, or Stambridge, Holt, Horton, Moore Critchell, Shapwick, Tarrant Crawford, Wimborne l\finster. Beaminster. Forum and Redborne :-Beaminster, Brad- 'Pole, Chardstock, Cheddington, Corscombe, Mapperton, Mosterton, Netherbury, North Poorton. South Perrot~, Stoke Abbott, Toller Porcorum (part of), Wambrook Bere Regis :~Bere Regis-, Kingshold, Winterborne .Kingston. Bindon liberty:-Chaldon Herring, Creech Grange, West Lulworth, Longcotts, Wool. Broadwinsor liberty:-Broadwinsor. Brownshall :-Caundle Stourton, Holwell, Stalbridge, Stock. Gayland. Buckland Newton :-Buckland Newton, Mappowder, Pulham, Wootton Glanville. Cerne, Totcombe and Modbury:-Cattistock, Cerne Abbas, Compton Abbas, Godmanstone, Hilfield, Nether Cerne. Cogdean.:-Branksome, Canford Magna, Charlton Marshall, Corfe Mullen, Hamworthy, Kinson or Kingstone, Longfleet, Lytchett Matravers, Lytchett Minster, Park. stone, Sturminster Marshall. Coombs Direh :-Anderson, Blandford St. Mary, B:andford Forum, Bloxworth, Winterborne Clenstone, Winterborne Thompson, Winterborn~ Whitechurch. Corfe Castle :-Corfe Castle. Cranborne :-Ashmore, Bellchalwell, Cranborne. Edmonsham, Farnham Tollard, Pentridge, Shillingstone ()r Shilling Okeford, Tarran't Gunville, Tarrant Rushton, Turnworth, Verwood, ·We.st Parley, Witchampton. Culliford Tree :-Broadway, Buckland Ripers, OsmingtoI1, Radipole, West Chickerell, West Knighton, West Stafford, Whitcombe, Winterbourne Came, Winterbourne Herringstone, Winterbourne Monckton. Dewlish liberty:-Dewlish. Eggerton :-Askerswell, Hook, Long Bredy, Poorstock, Winterbourne Abbas, Wraxall. Fordington liberty: Fordingwn, Frampton,Hermitage. Frampton liberty:-Bettiscombe, Binscombe, Burton, Brad&tock, Compton Vallence. George: tBradford Peverell, Broadmayne,Charminster, Stinsford, Stratton, Winterbourne St. Martin. Gillingham liberty:-Gillingham Bourton. Godderthorne :-Allington, Shipton George, Walditch. Halstock liberty:-Halstock. Hasilor :-Arne, Blatchenwell, Bradle, East Creech, Church Knowle, Egglestone. Earlsmead, &; Haymoor, Encombe, East Holme, West Holme, Kimmeridge. Povington. Swborough, Steeple Tyneham. Hundredsbarrow:-Aff Puddle, Briants Puddle, Hyde, Shitterton, Worgrett, Turners Puddle. Isle of Portland liberty:-Portland. Knowlton;-Gussage All Saints, Long Critchell, Woodlands. . Loose.ba:n-ow:-Almer, East M:orden, Spetisbury. Lothera .and Bothe:tiliampton liberty:-Bothenhampton, Loders, Lyme Regis. Mon.ekt()n-up-Wimborne :-Alcester, Chettle, Shaftesbury, :l'arrant .Monckton. Owermoigne liberty:-Owermoigne. Pimpeme;-Rryanstone, Durweston; Fifehead Neville, Hammoon, Haselbury Bryan, Langton, Long Blandford, Pimpern8y Steepleton Iwerne or Steepleton Pooston, Stompaine. Tarrant Hint-on,. Tarrant Keynston, Tsrrant Launceston, Tarrant Rawston, Winterhourne Houghton, Win. terbourne Stickland. Puddlehinton liberty I PiddIehinton or PuddIehinwn• Puddletown :-Admiston or Athelhampstone, Burlestone, ;Milborne St. Andrew, Piddletiown or PuddletoWD, Tincleton, Tolpuddle. Pydeltrenthide liberty :-Mintern Magna,Pydeltrenthide Redlane :-Buckhorn Weston.. Child Okeford, East Stower, Fifehead Magdalen, Iwerne Courtnay or Shroton, Kington Magna, Manston, SilOOn, Sutton WaldroD. ~p4.- bere, West Stower. . Rowbarrow:-AfHington, Herst<}lL and Langton Matravers, Kings-ton, Langton Wallis, OweI', Rempstonll, Rollington, Studland, Swanage. Whitecliff, Worth Matravers. Rushmore :-West Morden., Winterborne ZeIstone. Ryme Intrinsica. Liberty:-Ryme Intrinsica. Sherborne :-Beer Hackett, Bradford Abbas, Castleton, Caundle Bishop, CaundIe Marsh, Caundle Purse, Folke, Haydon, Holnest. Lillington, Long Burton, Lydlinch, :Nether Compton, North Woolwn, Oborne, Over Compton, Sherborne, Thornford, Up Cerne. Sixpenny Handley:-Cann or Shaston St. Rumbold, Compton Abbas, East Orchard, Fontmell Magna, Handley, or Sixpenny Handley, Iwerne Minster, Melbury Abbas, Motcombe, West Orchard. Stoborough liberty:-Stoborough. Stower Provost liberty:-Stower Provost. Sturminster Newton Oastle: Hinton St. Mary, Margaret Marsh, Mar:nhull, Okeford Fitzpaine, Sturminster Newton Castle. Sutton Poyntz liberty:-Preston, Stockwood. Sydling St. Nicholas liberty:-Sydling St. Nicholas. Tollerford :-Chilfrome, Frome St, Quinton, Frome Vauchurch, East Chelborough, Evershot, Maiden Newton, Melbury Sampford, Rampisham, ToIler Fratrum, ToIler Porcorum (part of), West; Chelborough, Wynford Eagle. Uggscombe :-Abbotsbury, Chilcombe, Fleet, Hawkchurch, Kingston Russell, LangOOn Herring, Little Bredy, Litton Cheney, Portisham, Puncknowle, Swyre, Winterbourne Steepleton. Wabyhouse Liberty :~Upway. Whitchurch Canonicorum :-Burstock, Catherstone, Leweston, Charmouth, Chideock, Marshwood, PiIsdon, Stanton St. Gabriel, Symondsbury, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Wotton Fitzpain~. Whiteway:-Chesilborne, Hilton; Ibberton., Melcombe Horsey, Milton Abbas, Stoke Wake, WooIland. Wimborne St. Giles :-Hampreston, Wimborne St. illles. Winfrith :-East Burton, Coombe Keynes, East Chaldon, Holworth, East Lulworth, East Stoke, Moreton, PoxweIl, Warmwell, Winfrith Newburgh, Woodsford. Wyke Regis and Elwell liberty:-Wyke Regis. Yetminstel'l :-Batcombe, Chetnole, Clifton, Maybank, Leigh, Me:bury Bubb, Melbury Osmond, Yetminster. Bridport borough :-Bridport. Dorchester borough :-All Saints (Dorchester), Holy TriDJity (Dorchester), St. Peter (Dorchester). Lyme Regis borough. Poole Town and County:-St. James (Poole). Wareham borough :-Lady St. Mary (Wareham), St. Martin (Wareham), The Holy Trinity (Wareham). Weymouth borough :-Melcombe Regis (Weymouth), The County Asylum is a~ extensive range of buildings, one mile from Charminster-, it was opened in 1864 for 320 patients'; the cost, including 56 acres of land, was about £44,000; in 1894 an. additional block of buildings was added at a cost, including 94 extra acres of land, of nearly £70,000; it will now hold 750 patients; private patients are received at a charge of 14s. and up· ward.s' weekly. Peter William Macdonald M.D. medical superintendent; John Alfred Ewan M.A., M.D., C.M. George Burton Robinson M.B. assistant medical officers; Rev. J. C. Prior, chaplain.; Thomas Coombs, clerk to the asylum and the committee of visitors The Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, was built in 1841, in the Tudor style, and a wing added in 1866: at present it has beds for 50 patients, but possesses ample room for a larger number. Robert Williams, treasurer; William George Vawdrey Lush M.D. physician; John Tudor, consulting surgeon; George Aldridge George L.R.C.P.Lond. Frederick Bazley Fisher L.B.C.P.Lond. and William Erne&t Good L.R.C.P.Edin. surgeons; Samuel Weslev Wilson L.R.C.P. &; S.Irel. house sur~ geon; Rev. Rimdolph CblLrle.s Marriott M.A. chaplain; George M. Archdale, auditor; C. HansfOl'd and G. J. G. Gregory, financial secretllories; Miss Frances Ward, matron; WaIter E. Groves, clerk; C. T. Carter, dispenser. The We~'mouth and Dorset County Royal Eye In..

DORSETSHIRE. 7 • firmary, Weymouth, was established in 1836, the present building was erected in 1872, and contains 20 beds; the yearly average number of in-patients is about 180, and the out-patients about 970; Christopher Childs M.A., M.D. and Rowland Wimburn Carter M.D. and Hubert Houssemayne Du Boulay M.R.C.S. surgeons; John Laws L.D.S.Irel. dental surgeon; Edward Fooks, secretary. Dor,set County School, Chartnin,ster, near Dorch-es~l', is eo large brick building with stone dressings, on the brow of a hill, for 80 boarders, with chapel; Rev. William S. Watson M.A. head master. Her Majesty's Prison, Dorchester. is situate on the site of the ancient castle, and was originally erected in 1793, on the plan of Mr. Howard, at an expense of £,16,179; since the transfer from the County Authorities it halL been entirely rebuilt, now containing 161 cells. Edwin Witheford, chief warder in charge; Rev. Thomas Kingdon Allen M.A. chaplain; William Ernest· Good L.R.O.P.Edin. medical officer; Miss Bazell, matron PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION OF DORSETSBIRE. The County of Dorset formerly returned. three members to Parliament! but under the provisioJ1S) {)f the ~l Redistribution of Seats Act. 1885" it now returns foul" members, in four dJivisions. (1) The Northern division comprises the petty sessional divi.&.ions of Blandford, Shaftesbury, Sherborne (except so much as comprised in division No. 3) and Sturminster. (2) The Eastern division comprises the sessional divisions of Wareham (except g.() much as is comprised in division No. 3), Wimborne and the municipal borough of Poole. (3) The Southern division comprises the sessional division of Dorchester (except so much as is comprised in division No. 4). and the municipal boroughs of Dorchester, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. and the parishes of M-Puddle, Ohaldon-Hemng, Coombe Keynes; East Lulworth, Moreton, Turner's Puddle, We.st Lulworth, Winfrith and Wool, in the sessional division of Wareham. (4) The Western division comprises the sessional divi. sions of Bridport and Cerne,and the municipal boroughs of Bridport and Lyme Regis and the parishes of Abbotsbury, Chilfrome, Compton Abbas, Compton Vallence, Evershot, Frampton, Frome Vauchurch, Kingston Russell' LangtoIl! Herring, Littlebredy, Litton Cheney, Longbredy, Maiden Newton, Melbury, Sampford, Portisham, Puncknowle, Rampisham, Swyre, Toller Fratruni, Toller Porcorum, Wintel"borne Abtlas, Winterborne Steepleton and Wynford Eagle. in the sessional division of Dorchester, and the parishes of Ohetnole, Leigh, Melbury OsmOOld, Ryme Intrinsica, Stockwood and Yetminster, in the sessional division of Sherborne. Under the provisions of the above-mentioned Act, the Boroughs of 'Weymouth, Bridport, Dorchester, Poole, Shaftesbury and Wareham were disfranchised. MEMBERS OF PARLI.A.MENT FOR THE COUNTY. EaSit.ern Division, lIon, Humphrey Napier Sturt D.L., J.P. Crichel, Wimborne; &:; 38 Portman square W. &:; Carlton club, London S.W. Northern Division, John Kenelm Digby Wingfield-Digby J.P. Shel'iborne castle, Sherborne, Dorset; &:; Arthur's, White's & Carlton clubs, London S W Southern Division, William Ernest Brymer M.A., J.P., 11- sington house, Puq.dletown, DOl'chester, 8 St. James's st. &:; Carlton club, London S W Western Division, Col. Robert WiHiams D.L., J.P. Bridehead, Dorchester; I Hyde Park street W. &:; National Liberal club, London S W . MILITARY. Dorchester is the depot of Regimental District No. 39, the Dorsetshire Regiment, which is comprised of the 1st Battalion (39th Foot); 2nd Battalion (54th Foot) ; the Dorset Militia. being its 3rd Battalion; the head quarters of the latter are at Dorchester. Full particulars will be found at p. 71 YEOMANRY CAVALRY. (Portsmouth Brigade.) DOTset (Queen's Own), head quarters &:; stores, Lower Bond street; Hon. Col. J. R. P. Goodden, commanding; Hon. Lieut.-Col. W. E. Brymer, major: Capt. K. R. Balfour, 1St Royal Dragoons, brigade adjutant; n Surg.-Lieut.-Col. G. W. Daniel &:; Surg.-Lieut. W. Rendell, medical officers; :Rev. J. L. G. Hadow, honorary chaplain; Veterinary-Lieut. D. G. Barrow M.R.C.V.s. veterinary officer Squadrol1s-A, Capt. T. K. Wingfield Digby M.P. commanding; Capt. J. Gundry, second in command ; - English, quarter master; - Lnckham, sergeant-major. B, Lieut.-Col. E. M. Pleydell, commanding; Capt. Elliot Lees M.P. second in command; E. W. Cave, quarter-master; - Smith, sergeant-major VOLUNTEERS. , Artillery. .1st p<*'~tsbire, Sotitl),ern phris{on, Royal Artillery (10 batteries) Alliin McLean V:D. lieut.-col. commanding; G. E. Andrews V.D. major; Capt. Edward Walter Comyn R.A. adjutant; C. F. Hawker, quarter-master, head quarters, St. Albans street, Weymouth. Batteries:- Nos. 1- &:; 2, Bournemouth, Hants; No. 3, Capt. J. R. C. Talbot, Lyme Regis; 'No. 4, Bridport; No. 5, Capt. R. G. Pinder, Swanage; No. 6, Capt. F. Reynolds, Poole; No. 7, . Capt;. G. P. 8ymes, Surg.-Lieut. H. H. Du Boulay, medical officer, Rev. R.·E. Tanner M.A. cbaplain, Weymouth; No. a, Capt. J. E. Crickmay, Rev. J. A.,Beazor V.D. chaplain, Poole; No. 9, Capt. J. El Crickllllty, Portland; No. 10, Capt. J, H. Bowen, Portland ') f INFANTRY. r Dorsetshire Regiment, 1st Volunteer Battalion, Cal. R. Williams V. D. lieut.-col. commandant; Ho~. Lieu~..Cols. J. F, Hodges V.D. &:; W. A. Stone V.D. majors; Major w. A. Campbell, adjutant; Capt, T. R. Cross V.D. quarter master; Surg.-Major W. A. E. Hay & Surg.-Lieut. H. F. T. Chambers, surgeons; E. M. Spooner, hon. assistant surgeon j Rev. W. O. Parish. Rev. W. H. Lyon &:; Rev. H. Everett, acting chaplains, head qrtrs. Prince's st. Dorchstr Companies ;-A, Major William Townley Whetham, head quarters, Drill hall, St. Michael's lane, Bridport; E, Capt. Gerald D. Bond, Sergt.. William Briers, drill instructor, South street, Wareham; C, Capt. H. S.Williams, Henry Grant, drill instructor, Prince's street, Dorchester ; D, Capt. Francis G. Wheatley, Sergt.-Major Charles Davies, drill instructor, Hunger hill,Poole ; E, Major H. T. George, Victoria hall, Weymouth; F, Capt. Henry WaIt. King Rawlins, Thomas Cox, drill instructor, Armoury, West Borough, Wimborne; G, Major W. IL Williams, Arthur McAvitt, drill instructor., DrilJ hall, Acreman st. Sherborne; H, Lieut. :1". D. Woodhouse, George Thomas Knigh~ drill instructor, Blandford & Sturminster Newton S.o. ; I, Color-Sergt. George Hacker, Sergt. William Bdward Mozley,drill instructor,Armoury, EeU street, Shaftesbury; L, Capt. R. E. :Freame, Gillingham ' :1"AIRS &; MARKETS. • Beaminster, Sept. 19, for cattle; market day, thurs. for butchers' meat & provisions Bere Regis, September 21 &:; 22, on Woodbury hill Blandford, March 7, principally for sheep, horses &:; horned cattle; September 9, November 8 & the sat. next before July 10 for wool: market day, sat Bridport, April 6, for cattle & cheese; & October 11 ; market days, wed. &:; sat Corfe Castle, May 12 &:; October 29 Cranborne, December 6, for pleasure Dorchester, February 14, July 6, August 6 &:; October 25, for horses, sheep &:; cattle; & one at Poundbury the last thurs. in September, principally for homewes, market days, wed. &:; sat Gillingham, Trinity mono for cattle; & September 12, for pleasure; market day, every alternate mon Iwerne Courtnay, Sept. 25 &26, for horses, cattle & cheese Lyme Regis, first tues. after Candlemas'Se- Michaelmas ; market days, tues. & fri. for butchers' meat, poultry &; vegetables Maiden Newton, March 9 & May 4 Milborne St. Andrew, November 30, for cattle, sheep, corn &:; cheese Poale, St. Philip & St. James' fair, May 1st; &:; All Saints, November 2, each for 8 days; market day, thurs Portland, November 5, for pleasure Puddleton, October 29 Shaftesbury, sat. before Palm sun. last sat. in August & November 23, for .sheep, cattle, cheese &:; agricultural produce &:; pleasure; market day, sat Sherborne, May 8, July 18 & 26, for cattle &:; sheep; & a large fair, well known as Pack Monday faiT, on the first mono after October 10; market days, thurs. &:; sat Stalbridge, May 6 &:; September 4, for cattle; marke~ day, every alternate thurs Sturminster Newton, May 12 & October 24; market day, alternate mono chiefly for cattle ToIler Down, May 18 & September 7 Wareham, tues. nearest April 17 &:; September 11, for cattle i market day, tues Weymouth, market held daily' Wimborne, market day, fri Wool, May 14, for cattl.e Yetminster, April 2].& October 5

8 DORSETSHIRE. • • [KELLY'S DORSET COUNTY --.-- COUNCIL. Local Government Act, 1888, 51 &S2 Vic. C. 41. Under the above Act the county of Dorset after the 1St April, 1889, became for the purposes of this Act an administrative county (sec. 46), govemed by a County Council, consisting of chairman, alderman &; councIllors (the number of 'councillors being determined by the Local Government Board) and elected in manner prescribed by the Act (sec. 2). The chairman is, by virtue of his office, a justice of the peace for the county without qualification (sec. 46). The police for the county is under the control of a standing joint committee of the Quarter Sessions and the COUDty Council appointed as therein mentioned (sec. 9). ....... The Coroners for the county are elected by the County Council and the clerk of the peace appointed by sucb joint committee and may be removed by them (sec. 83-2 ). The clerk of the peace for the county is also the clerk of the County Council (sec. 83-1). The administrative business of the county (which would, if this Act had not been passed, have been transacted by the justices) istransacted by the County Council. Meet at Dorchester. Chairman, Rt. Hon. Viscount Portman. Vice·Chairman, Lord Stalbridge. ALDERMEN. Retire in 1898. Batten John esq. J.P. The White house, Up Cerne &Aldon, Yeovil Digby Lord J.P. Minteme, Dorchester Dingley Alfred, Long street, Sherborne Duke Henry, jun. High West street, Dorchester Ensor Frederick Vemon. Dorchester Goodden Rev. Edward Wyndham, The Rectory, Nether Compton Homer George Wood, Islington lodge, Dorchester Mercer Charles, Lansdowne, Weymouth Pope Frank Ezekiel, Chilfrome, Dorchester Wimborne Lord J.P. Canford manor, Wimbome Retire in 1901. CecH Lord Eustace Brownlow Henry Gascoigne J.P. Lyt.. chett heath, Poole & 32 Eccleston square, London SW F)'ler John William Townsend esq.J.P.Hethfelton,Wareham Glyn Carr Stuart esq. J.P. Woodleaze, Furzhill, Wimbome HomerJohn Thomas, Hemsworth, Witchampton, Wimborna Ilchester Earl of P.C., J.P. Melbury house, Dorchester Portman Viscount J.P. Bryanston, Blandford & 22 Portman square, London Thomton Reginald Douglas J.P. Shirley house, Dorchester Watts Richard Cains, Weymouth Woods Theophilus, Gillingham COUNCILLORS. Electorial Division. Names &Addresses. Abbotsbury John Bagg J.P. Antwerp lodge, Radipole, Weymouth Beaminster Edward Gapper Legg, Melplash court, Netherbury, Melplash R.S.O Bere Regis Henry Robert Jesty, Roke farm, Bere Regis Blandford George Edward Woodhouse, Ansty, Dorchester Bourton WilliamEdwardTerreIl,Highfield house, Bourton Broadmayne Robert Burrough White, Winterboume Herringstone, Dorchstr Broadway Charles Scutt, Preston, Weymth Broadwindsor Sir Henry Peto, bart. Fleet hOe Weymouth Bridport :- North Thomas Alfred ColfoxJ.P.Coneygar, Bridport South........................ Alfred William Hounsell Dammers J.P. Down hall,Bridport Buckland Newton Charles Brook Stiby, Bradford Peverell, Dorchester Canford Daniel Ballam,Granville cottage, Lytchett Minster, Poola Ceme John Wyatt, Sydling, Dorchestr Chardstock William Salter Beviss J.P. Linnington, Wambrook, Chard Charlton Ma.rshall ......... Francis James Stuart J.P. The Manor house, Blandford St. Mary Charminster Hastings Burton Middleton J.P. Bradford Peverell, Dorchester Charmouth AlbertThompson AdamsJ.P.Bellair, Whitchurch Canonicorum CorfeCastle Nathaniel Bond J.P. Creech grange. Steeple Cranborne Samuel Thomas Pike, West Borough, Wimborne Electoral Division. Names & .Addresses. Dorchester ::- No. I, West Sir Edward Robert Pearce.Edg. cumbe J.P. Somerleigh court, Dorchester No. 2, East Lord Alington J.P. Crichel hl>. Wimbome Fontmell Sir Richard Geo. GIyn bart. J.P. Gaunts house, Wimbome Gillingham Robert Sadler Freame, The Chantry, Gillingham Hampreston George Salisbury, Femdown, Hampreston Handley The Hon.HnmphreyNapierSturt J.P., M.P. Crichel house, Wimborne Haselbury Philip CharlesAdams,Fiddleford. Sturminster Newton Kinson Hy. Thos. Trevanion,Lostwithiel~ Alumburst rd.BournemouthW Loders Campbell Fortescue Stapleton Sanctuary J.P. Mangerton, Netherbury, Melplash R.S.O Longburton John Kenelm Digby WingfieldDigby J.P., M.P. Sherbome Castle Lyme Regis Horace Whitehead Chatterton~ Little High Cliff, Lyme Regis Maiden Newton Robert Williams J.P. Bridehead~ Dorchester Melcombe Regis-Southrn Alfred Dennis J.P. Wyke Regis, Weymouth Melcombe Regis-Northrn James Macpherson Lawrie M.D., J.P. Greenhill, Weymouth Milton'Abbas JohnClavellMansel-PleydellJ.r. Whatcombe, Blandford Motcombe Lord Stalbridge J.P. Mofic(lmbe house, Shaftesbury Pimperne The Hon. Henry Berkeley Portman, Durweston, Blandford

DIRECTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. 9 Electoral Division. Names & Addresses. Poole :- Southern ••..••..•..•.••••• Philip Edward Lionel Budge, Beech hurst, High street, Poole Northern •.••••.••.••.••.•• Robert Edward Walmesley,Newton Foxhall, Wimborne road, Bournemouth • Eastern William Douglas Dugdale J.P. Sterte, Longfleet, Poole Poorstock Arthur Martin J.P. Manor hOe Rampisham Portland Underhill Frederick James Barnes, 4 Down villas, Rodwell, Weymouth Portland Uphill Henry Sansom, 29 Easton square, Portland PuddIetown Wm. Ernest Brymer J.P., M.P. llsington house, Puddletown, Dorchester Shaftesbury Alfred Thomas, Carpenter, Shaftesburv • Sherborne James John Loudon McAdam J.P. Greenhill, Sherborne Stalbridge ..•. William AIcock Whitbeck Parke J.P. Thornhill house, Stalbridge Electoral Division. Names & Addresses. Steeple Col. George Pleydell Mansel J.P. Smedmore, Kimmeridge Sturminster Marshall...... Edward William Cave,Shapwick, BIandford Sturminster Newton ...... Alexander Edward Fox-Pitt, Langton lodge, Blandford Swanage JohnErnest Mowlem, I De Moulham villas, Swanage Symondsbury Joseph Gundry J.P. The Hyde, Bridport Wareham Wm.MontaguCalcraftJ.P.Rempstone hOe Code Castle, Wareham Weymouth John Groyes J.P. Rodwell villa, Rodwell, Weymouth Wimborne Robert EIcock, Stourfield, Poola road, Wimborne Winfrith William Dugdale Kent, Winfrith, Wareham Wyke Regis Thomas Lynes, Sandesfort hOe Wyke Regis Yetminster John Robert Phelips Goodden J.P. Compton house, Over Compton, Sherborne LIST OF THE ME:\lBERS OF THE COCNTY COUNCIL OF DORSET ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY, AND THE ELECTORAL DIVISIONS FOR WHICH THEY RESPECTIVELY SIT. Name. Electoral Divisions. Adams A. T Charmouth Adams P. C Haselburv • Alington Lord Dorchester East Hagg J. . Abootsbury Ballam D Canford Barnes F. J Portland Underhill Beviss W. S Chardstock Bond N. Corfe Castle Brymer W. K, M.P Puddletown Budge P. E. L Poole Southern Calcraft W. M Wareham Carpenter A. T.................. Shaftesbury Cave E. W........................ Sturminster Marshall Chatterton H. W Lyme Regis Colfox T. A Bridport North Dammers A. W.................. Bridport South Dennis A........................... Melcombe Regis Southern Digby-Wingtield J. K. Digby M.P...... Long Burton Dugdale W. D Poole Eastern Elcock R Wimborne Fox-Pitt A. E Sturminster Newton Freame R. S...................... Gillingham Glyn Sir R. G. bart Fontmell Goodden J. R. P. Yetminster Groves J............ Weymouth Gundry J. Symondsbury Jesty H. R Bere Regis Kent W. D Winfrith Name. Electoral Divisions. Lawrie J. M Melcombe Regis Northern Legg E. G BeaminsteT Lynes T Wyke Regis McAdam J. J. L. Sherborne Mansel Col. G. P.... Steeple Mansel-PIeydell J. C Milton Abbas Martin A. Poorstock MiddIeton H B Charminster Mowlem J. E Swanage Parke W. A. W Stalbridge Pearce-Edgcumbe Sir E. R Dorchester West Peto Sir H. bart Broadwindsor Pike S. T Cranborne Portman The Hon. H. B.....• Pimperne Salisbury G Hampreston I Sanctuary C. F. S Loders I Sansom H......................... Portland Uphill I Scutt C Broadway I Stalbridge Lord Motcombe IStiby C. B....... Buckland Newton Stuart F. J Charlton Marshall Sturt The Hon. H. N., M.P.. Handley Terrell W. H Bourton Trevanion H. T................•• Kinson Walmesley R. E Poole Northern White R. B... Broadmayne Williams R Maiden Newton Woodhouse G. E Blandford Wyatt J.... Cerne County offices, Sherborne. COUNTY OFFICIALS. Clerk to the Council, E. Archdall Ffooks, Greenhill, Sherborne County Treasurer, Charles Keats, Shire hall, Dorchester County Analyst, John Comyns Leach M.D., RSc., F.C.S. The Lindens, Sturminster Newton County Surveyor, WaIter J. Fletcher F.R.I.B.A. The Chantry, Wimborne Inspector of Weights & Measures, Richard Churchill, Sherborne CORONERS. Northern district, John Comyns Leach M.D., RSc., F.C.S. The Lindens, Sturminster Newton; deputy, Frank Horace Hudson L.R.C.P.Lond. Sturminster Newton; Eastern district, Charles Henry Watts M.R.C.S.Eng., D.Ph. Wimborne; Southern district, Sir Richard Nicholas Howard, Weymouth; deputy, Gustavus Phelps Symes M.A., RC.L. Weymouth; Western district, Charles ... George Nantes, Bridport; Cogdean & Bradbu ry hundreds, Henry Oakley Chislett, Wimborne; Cranborne hundred, Francis Arthur Johns, Ringwood, Han ts ; Gillingham liberty, John Williams Bell, Gillingha m ; Sherborne & Yetminster hundred, Horace Nutt, Ch eap street, Sherborne

10 DORSET8HIRE. GEOLOGY OF PT DORSETSHIRE. SOME portions of Dorsetshire-tnore especially the coast in length, and are of types unlike any now living; they offer such unrivalled opportunities for geological study, probably inhabited shallow seas and estuaries, preying that they early attracted the attention of writers on that chiefly on fishes, as we may': judge from the numerousscience. The papers by Berger, Cumberland, De la Beche, remains, scales, &c., of the latter found in and near the Webster;' Lyell, Buckland, Fitton, Clarke, and 'Xhomson, skeletons of the great saurians. The upper portion of thpt published some forty years ago in the" Transactions, &c., of Lower Lias is composed of marls and clays, and the thick· the Geological Society," may stilol be usefully referred to. nass of this division is about 700 feet; it extends eastwards Later on, in the" Journal" of the same society, we have along the valley of the Char, past Marshwood to Pillesdon the results of the work of the Revs. P. B. Brodie, Dennis, and Bettiscombe. The most characteristic fossils are the 'Fisher, and Blake, Dr. Falconer, Professors Phinips and Ammonites, difierent species of which characterize different Buckman, and Messrs. Day, Whitaker, HuIke and Hudle- beds forming" zones" in the following order from below ston. upwards :-(1), Ammonites planorbis,· (2), angulatus; (3), The maps and sections of the Government Geological Bucklandi,' (4), Turneri,' (S), obtusus,' (6), oxynotus,' (7), Survey, executed about 1850 by Mr. H. W. Bristow, are raricostatus. The fossil fishes, for which Lyme Regis is simply indispensable to every student of the rocks. famous, are believed to occur chiefly in the dark marls of • The Dorset Natural History and Antiqual'ian Field Club the Bucklandi and Turneri beds. has lately published the first two volumes of its" Trans- A sman oyster, Ostrea liassica, occurs in great numbers actions," edited by Professor Buckman, and containing just at the junction of the Lower Lias with the Rhretic Beds. valuable geological papers by Messrs. Mausel.Pleydell, Jmddle Lias.-This division is, according to Mr. Day, Thomas Davidson, Rev H. H. Wood, S. Buckman, and the thicker on the coast of Dorset than anywhere else in EngEditor. Hutchin's" History of Dorset" may be consulted land, as he estimates it at SOO feet. The lower part is with advantage, and for the Weymouth district Mr. Damon's marly, the upper sandy, and of the well-known irony limelittle work is useful; in tohe" Proceedings of the Geologists' stone, which, under the name of marlstone, usually forms Association of London" we find papers by Mr. H. G. the top of the Middle Lias, th~e is only a very imperfect Fordham on the '~WealdeninSwanage Bay," and by Mr. J. representative. The characteristic ammonites areA. Jame~ S. Gardner on the" Eocene Strata"; for nwnerous other soni, Henleyi, marflaritatus, spinatus. Fine sections are facts we are indebted to scattered notices in the" Geological exposed at Black Ven, Stoneoarrow Hill, Westhay CHit, Magazine. 'f Golden Cap, Down Cliffs, &C. The fossils lie very much in GENERAL. STRUCTURE OF THE CoUNTY.-The surface of particular beds, and unless these are iound the chance of Dorsetshire may be divided into four regions, which owe conecting good specimens is not great; in the ledges of the their characteristicsto the rocks of which they are composed. lower part of the beach at Golden Cap immense numbers (I). In the north, north-west and west we have the Vale of Belemnitel!' occur; a beautiful s.tar-fisn, Ophioderma country, consisting of much clay land formed of liassic and Egertoni, is common at the base of a thick bed of sandstone oolitic strata and extending to the foot of the chalk hills i about half way up Golden Cap and Down Cliffs. Inland this is a fertile region and is one of the many parts of our the Middle Lias extends past Bridport to Netherbury, and Isle for which the term" Garden of England" has been thenOO'westwards by Hawkchurch into Devon. claimed. Upper Lias.-ThlS division includes 90 feet of clays sur- ~2). The chalk forms a "!tract of country in the centre of I mounted by sahds whose exact position in the geological the county, and east of it we have (3) sands (with some clay serie~ is 'rather doubtful; they are above 100 feet in thickbeds) of Tertiary age, forming a rather barren region. ness, and were mapped by the Geological Survey as belongLastly (4), a band of oolitic and cretaceous rocks forms a ing to the Upper Lias, but it now seems probable that they fringe along the coast, .producing beautiful scenery and of belong in part or altogether to the inferior oolite; it will be' high geological interest best perhaps to adopt the views of Professor Ramsay and In the main the beds of rock have an incnnation, or dip, consider them, like the Rhretic Beds, to be beds of passage towards the south-east; it results from this, that the oldest linking together the great liassic and oolitic formations; we or lowest rocks are thpse which rise to the surface, or crop . can trace these sands east of Bridport, past Milton to Bear out, on the west and north-west of the county. In our minster and Burstock, and thence curving round by Crewdescription of the beds we shall commence with these older kerne and Yeovil to Nether Compton. The fossils include strata and gradually advance eastwards, rising in the geolo- Rhynchonella cynocephala, Ammonites JUJ"'!nsis, A. aalensis, gical series to newer and newer formations. ~c. The heights of a few points above sea-level are Pillesdon THE OOLITE.-Dorsetshire offers a filie opportunity for Pen, 934 feet; Lewesdon Pen, 927 feet; Lyme Regis G\1ild.. the study of the beds of thIs- epoch; they occur in two hall, 28 feet; Charmouth Church, 92 feet; Stantoll St. distinct sets, viz., in the north-west of the county, and has Gabriel Church, 4U feet;' Chideock Ghuych, 102 feet; a narrow tract along the south coast. J :Bridport Market House, SI feet; Winterborne Church, 323 The Inferior Oolite can be traced from Oborne through feet; Dorchester Church, 224 feet; Wareham Old Church, Bradford Abbas to Berwick, and thence by Wayford and 38 feet; Poole Guildhall, 13 feet; these are taken from the Boominster to Burton Bradstock; at the latter point it to Abstract of the Levelling by the Ordnance Survey." consists of ferruginous limestones, but further north, at THE RHlETIC BEDs.-Until 1860 these beds were classed Powerstock and at Ham Hill, near Sherborne, we get thick with the Lias by English geologists, but the;r fossils on being beds of shelly oolite, which yield an excellent building closely examined proved to be of different species to those stone: one stratum at Bradford Abbas, about three feet ofthe Lias, a fact wliich lea to the separation oHhese Rhretic I thick, is so charged with ammonites as to be called the deposits from the great mass of the Lias above. Toey con- I Cephalopoda Bed, but Professor Buckman has lately shown sist· of greenish mad,- black shales and compact whitish I that it does not correspond with the bed of the same name limestones, ·the latter known as th~" White Lias"; the in the Cotteswold Hills, with which it had been confounded, total thickness is only about 100'feet. These beds just enter but that its true position is at least 100 feet higher in the the county near Lyme Regis their"fossils include the shells strata. The fossils of the Inferior Oolite of this district Avicul~ contorta and Pecten Valoniensis, while in the black include Ammonites Humphriesianus, A. Parkinsoni, Tel'ebrashales there are one or two sandy lay~rs containing such Itula Phillipsii, several species of Astarte, Triflonia, &c.; numbers of scales and bones of fishes ana saurians as to be j the soil is of a reddish tinge and brashy. -entitled" bone-beds." I The Fuller's Earth-This division consists of blue and THE LIAS.-This well-known formation is magnificent.ly I yellow marls and clays about 400 feet thick, divided about exposed at Lyme Regis, and extends eastwards along the the middle by a bed of rubbly limeston61 called the Fuller's coast past Charmouth and Seatown to Burton Bradstock. I Earth Rock, which is largely quarried fOr lime-burning; The middle and upper beds of this grand coast section this bed only occurs in the northern or vale portion of the have been well described by Mr. Day, but of the Lower county. We can trace the Fuller's Earth running east of Lias here no detailed account has yet been made public. Sherborne in a long narrow strip south-west to Clifton The Lower Lias contains in its lower part, where it sur- Wood; after heing interrupted by faults it spreads widely mounts the Rhretic beds, many layers of limestone, and between Halstock and South Perrotf" and then cunes round these yield tha nne specimens of saurians and fishes for I by Mi!;terton, and runs north of Beaminster to Taller Porwhich Lyme Regis has always been noted; the grand skele· corum, whence it passes southwards, although interrupted tons of Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus extracted by Miss by several faults, until it forms the coast for four (11' five Mary Anning, Mr. J. W. Marder, and Mr. Hawkins, are miles east of Burton Bradstock. The Fuller's Earth is now depuslted in our national museums; the.'le remarkable chiefly under pasturage; it does not contain man:)' fossils, reptiles must have heen when full grown from 9 to 2S feet but a small o)'ster, Ostrea acuminata, is pretty common.

1>IR~CTbRY. ] DORSETSHIRE. 11 'fhe Great Oalite, which, further north, near Bath, turnishes such excellent stone, does not occur in Dorsetshire, being found tl) thin out ami disappear as it. is followed southwards. The POl'e,~1 ll1m·ble.-The beds of this name consist of clays containing layers of thin fissile limestones, altogether 450 feet thick; it is possible, however, that the lower portion may represent the Great Oolite of Gloucestershire. The Fore.st Marble forms a poor, wet soil, mostly in pasture; we (~n trace it. between Stalbridge Park and Holt Hill, again between Sherborne Park and Lillington, and at Melbury Wood and West Chelbot'ough; in the southern region It extends from Radipole to Langton Herring, and also along the 'Valley of the Bredy. The limestone layers are quarried for flagstones, and at Brotherhampton near Bridpol"t are burnt into lime; at Long Burton near Sherborne, the limestone has been polished for chimney pieces, and is called .. Yeovil M~rble." Of the fossils which occur such as Terebratula ma.rillata, Rhynchonella concinna, &c., hardly any are peculiar to this formation. Cornbrash.-This name implies a rock breaking up, under the influence of the weather, into small irregnlar fragments, producing- a " brashy" soil on which. corn grows well: it is a bed of cream-coloured limestone, varying in Dorset from 20 to 40 feet in thickness, and everywhere present in its proper position beneath the Oxford clay, not only in this county but across'England to Yorkshire. Entering on the north at Stalbridge, it forms a band half-a-mile wide, through Swurton Caundle to Bishop's Caundle; nere it is displaced by a fault, and we find it again between Haydon and Long Burton, and again round Yetminster, Ryme, Closeworth and Melbury: in the coast tract it occurs at Puncknowl, and between Radipole and West Chickerel. The fossils are not in fine condition, but the Rev. H. H. Wood has obtained about I80 species from the neighbourhood of Closeworth, including Ameula echinata, Ammonites Herveyi, &c. ; and Mr. Darell Stephens here found a great rarity-the skull of a crocodile-Steneosaurus Stephani. A remarkable point about the fossils is, that many of them are Inferior Oolite species, which are wanting in the intermediate beds, thus giving an example of a recurrent fauna, which is of great interest. According to Professor Buckman, the Cornbrash contains more phosphate of lime than the other oolitic strata, a fact which would account for its greater fertility. The Oxford Clay.-This is a very thick bed of bluish clay, containing rounded masses (septaria) of limestone, called pudding·stones, which have been cut and polished at Weymouth, Melbury, &c. A .common fossil is a large broad oyster, called Grypht£a dilatata. The Oxford clay forms the low gronnd on each side of the river Lidden, between Stalbridge and Marnhull, and thence extends in a strip two or three miles wide by Lidlinch, Pulham and Holnest to Chetnole; this is its westward termination, but on the south we find it again in the upper part of the Bredy Valley, and also between Melcombe Regis and East Fleet: its thickness ilil perhaps 700 feet: being heavy, and difficult to cultivate, the land is mostly in permanent pasture. The hard bed found elsewhere at the base of the Oxford Clay, and known as the Kellaway's Rock, has not been noted in Dorsetshire. Coral Rag.-In North Dorset, we see, above the Oxford Clay~ some beds of oolitic and rubbly limestone, associated at the top and bottom with sands and marls, altogether about Ioo feet thick. They stretch from Silton, by Stower, Marnhull, Sturminster Newton, Fifehead Neville, Haselbury Bryant, to Mappowder, Gla~ville Wooton and Hermitage, whence they are overlapped by the cretaceous rocks. There is a fine section of the strata shown by the Sturminster railway cutting, and the lower beds yield a good oolitic building stone at Marnhull and Todbere At Weymouth the Coral R'tg is finely exposed on the coast, and stretches across to W~'ke Regis: it also runs as a long narrow band from Ringstead Bar and Radcliff Point, by Jordon Hill and Broadway, to Abbotsbury. At the latter place is a thick local deposit of iron-ore (hydrated peroxide). The characteristic fossils are spines of a sea-urchinCidaris ilorigemma-with sl1ch shells as Tri,gonia clavellata, Ammonites cordatus, &c. ; corals are frequent in Ringstead Bay only. Kimmeridge Clay.-This formation takes its name from a little Dorsetshire village on the south-we3t side of the isle of Purbeck; beds of the same age cap the Coral Rag in Ringstead Bay and extend thence westwards by Up\vay Street to Portisham; they also occur in the northern part of the Isle of Portl:md. In North Dorset the Kimmeridge Clay has, an outorop four miles wide at Gillingham and MotcQmbe, and thence passes southwards by West Orchard, Ham'noon and Shilling Okeford to Melcombe Park. South of We}wouth, about 20 feet of sandy clavs and grits are seen,' containin~ Ostrea deltoidea, Trigon;a .iJferiani, &c. : theg~ a::e the r .lS3a~~ Beds of Mr. Blake; in Rin~stead Ba~' about 400 feet of blue sandy Clays, with nodular limestone concretions, constitute the Lower Kimmeridge ; the common shells are Exogyra 'lJirgula, Thracia depressa, Ammonites biplex, &C. The Upper Kimmeridge beds are 650 feet thick in Kimmeridge Bay, and consist of bituminous shales and eement-stones; these contain many fossils, as Discina latissima, Cardium striatulum, &c., and all the large bones of saurians, which have been described by Professor Owen, Mr. Hulke, and others, have come from this division; one paddle of a Pliosaurus, now in the Dorchester Museum, measures 6 feet 9 inches in length. Some of the shales are so bituminous as to be used in the neighbourhood instead of coal, when the latter substance is dear; attempts, too, have been made to distil mineral ()ils, and to make aluin and gas, from these shales, but not, hitherto, with any greatsuccess. There is a good deal, tOOl of the yellow mineral called iron pyrites, and the spontaneous decomposition of this substance at Ringstead Bay, in 1826, produced so much heat as to infiame the shales, which continued to smoulder for several years. From the same cause similar ignitions have occurred in the lias beds at Charmouth, usually after heavy rains, or When the sea has dashed over the cliffs. The P01'tland Beds are called after t.he isle. -or rathel' peninsula, of that name: they consist of 70 feet of grey and yellow sands, suMnounted by an equal thickness of shelly and oolitic limestone, containing nodules and bands of chert, an impure variety of flint: besides the locality from which they take t.heir name, we find these beds in the Isle of Purbeck, circling round from St. Alban's Head by West Hill to Gad Cliff: they fringe the coast from Mewp's Bay to Durdle Door, and are also traceable between Osmington and Portisham: they are not visible in North Dorset, being overlapped and concealed by cretaceous strata, but they peep out again at Tisbury, in Wiltshire. The upper limestone bands yield some of the best building stone in England: the roach bed lies near the top; it is shelly and not suitable for fine work: the best stone is that of the whit bed, lower down, though it is not so thick. St. Paul's Cathedral and many of the churches and other public buildings of London, especially those erected in the reign of Queen Anne, are built of Portland oolite. The fossils mostly occur as casts; Cerithium Portlandieum (the" Portland screw"), Ammonites.qiganteus, and Cardium dissimile may be mentioned; yellow crystals of sulphate of ba...jtes are not uncommon. The Purbeck Beds.-These consist of limestones, clays. and marls, altogether 300 feet thick: in the Isle of Purbeck they extend from Swanage to Worth Matravers, aud thence in a narrow band through Kingston to Worbarrow Bay: as a narrow contorted band they are visible between Mewp's ~ay and Man-of-War Cove: in the Weymouth district they cap the Isle of Portland on the south, and are found OIl the north between Osmington and Poxwell, and west of Upway. In I850 Professor E. Forbes divided the Purbecks into Lbwer, Middle, and Upper: the Lower Pnrbeck contains .. Dirt Beds," which are the remains of old land surfaces composed of vegetable soil, and containing stumps of trees, named Mantellia, which are allied to the living Cycads: in the Middle Purbecks we have" Cinder Beds," composed of vast masses of oysters: the upper beds are freshwater limestones full of Paludina and other freshwater shells: these limestones were formerly polished and used, under the name of "Pnrbeck Marble," to make the slender shafts in Gothic churches. Remains of insects are frequent in the Purbecks, and Cypride.~ (small freshwater crustaceans) are also veryabnndant. In 1854 Mr. W. R Brodie found remains of small mammals in the Middle Pnrbecks, at Durlston Bay, and in 1856 the energetic researches of Mr. S. H. Heckles exhumed fragments (chiefly lower jaws) of 25 species from the same bed in the suburbs of Swanage. These have been described by Professor Owen as marsupials of small size, resembling the Kangaroo Rat of Australia. The Purbeck strata close the great Jurassic series, as the Lias and Oolites are termed when considered as a whole; the nature of the sediment and the fossils they contain show them all to be of marine origin, until we come to the very top, where in the Purbeck Beds we have evidence of freshwater, probably estuarine, conditions. NEOCO:M:IAN, OR LoWER CRETACEOUS PERIOD.-The grits and sandy clays which lie conformably on the Purbeck series, are also of freshwater origin, and are known, the lower part as the Ha$tings Beds, and the upper division as the TVeald Cla.v: they occupy the whole recess of Swanage Bay and extend due west to Worbarrow Bay, which is also excavated in them: their dip is due north at 8. high angle: they thin westwards in a remarkable manner from 1,800 feet at Swanage Bay to 725 feet at Worbarrow Bay, 660 feet at Mewp's Bay, 462 feet at Lulworth Cove, and 172 at ~bnof-War Cove' inland they can be traced from the north ~ide of East Chaldon to Osming'ton. In Swanage Day bor.es of two gigantic reptiles, the Iguanodon and iJ-fe,qalosaurus, have been found. and here, too, Mr. Beckles ha.s found /liguutip

12 DORSETSHIRE. [KELLY'S footprints, 15 inches long, of these or some other huge On the soutb coast the chalk has been upheaved so as to monsters. stand nearly vertically from Durdle Cove by Bindon Hill, The Punfield Series was named by Professor Judd from Purbeck Down, and above Corie Castle to Ballard Down, the place of that name, 011 th.e north side of l:'wanage Bay. I where the Foreland marks its present termination, althoug-o Here we have nbout 200 feet of laminated shales and sands originally it stretched right across tu the Ncedles in the ('ontaining bands of limestone and Ironstone: these contain Isle of Wight. brackish water and marine fossils, showing & depression of In Dorset the chalk presents its usual characteristicsthe Wealden area which admitted the waters of the open high, bare, and rounded hills covered with short herbage, sea. but possessing little or no soil, dry valleys and few trees. l'lle Lowel' Greensand consists of grey clays and sands On the southern slope of the Down at Owermoigne, facing about 60 feet thick, resting on the Punfield bed, and con- Weymouth, a gigantic figure of George 1II..on horseback, taining Exogyra sinuata, &C. 174 feet in height, has been made by cutting away the CRETACEOUS FORMATION.-Of the lowest division of this turf: near ('..erne there is a similar figure of a giant holding series the Gault-there is a poor representative seen a club. More than half a million sheep still feed on the in Punfield Cove: it is a dark sandy clay with few fossils, Dorset Downs, but a good deal of the land has of late and is about 40 feet thick: it has been traced westward to years been brought under plough. The chalk may be Lyme Regis, where. at Black Ven, it rests upon the Lias. examined in many pits where it is quarried for lime burnOn the west side of Shaftesbury the Gault again crops out: ing: the flints are use d for road mending. The fossils of here it is thicker and assumes its normal character of a the lower chalk include the brachiopod shell, Rhynchonella blue micaceous clay. Cuvieri, and several species of Inoceramus; in the Upper The Upper G-reensand varies from 100 to 200 feet in Chalk we find the rounded bodies of many sea-urchins, the thickness: it is a yellowish-brown sand, containing beds of commonest species being ifficraster coranguinum and sandstone and layers of chert, and near the base is speckled Ananchytes ovatus with the shell Spondylus spinosus, Rhyngreen by silicate of iron: it runs everywhere at the base of chonella octoplicata, fish teeth, &c. The chemical composi the chalk hills, except where cut off by faults i from Pun- tion of the chalk is nearly pure carbonate of lime, and the field it passes westwards "through East Chaldon, Abbotsbury microscope shows it to be composed in large part of the Castle and Askerswell to Cheddington, then curves north- shells of microscopic animals, called foraminifera, belonging east by Maiden Newton, Evershot. Melcombe, Bingham, to the lowest scale of animal life. and Sutton Waldron to ShaftesbUTy, east of which town it Land-slips.-Along the Dorset coast, near Lyme Regis, has a broad outcrop reaching to Berwick St.. John i generally the chalk and Upper Greensand rest on Rhretic and Liassic its outcrop is less than half-a-mile wide. Many outlying clays, and dip slightly towards the sea, while numerous Upper Surface of Micrastl!T" coranguinum, a sea-urchin from the chalk. Lower surface (shOWing the mouth and vent) of '&nanchute, omtus, a sea.-urchin from the chalk. • • - , patches of the Upper Greensand form the capping of the springs issue at the junction of the sands and clays. Here hills in West Dorset; among these are Eype Down, Golden are all the conditions favourable to the production of landCap, Stonebarrow Hill, Haddon Hill, Lewsdon Hill, Pilles- slips, and they frequently occur, and are sometimes of don Pen, Conic Castle, Thorncomb, &c. The great uncon- great magnitude. In 1839, about 22 acres of land at formity of'the cretaceous series to the underlying strata is Bindon sJipped down towardsthe sea,producing a chasm 1,000 well shown by this overlap of the Upper Greensand upon yards in length, by 300 in breadth: a model illustrating bed after bed of the lower rocks. The Upper Greensand is this may be seen in the Jermyn Street Museum, London. an excellent water-bearing stratum, the rain which has TERTIARY EPOCH: THE EOCENE FORMATION. - The percolated through the chalk being arrested by the clayey Eocene beds of Dorset rest on an eroded surface of chalk. base of the sands: hence springs issue all along its outcrop, They occur in the eastern portion of the county, and form and the sites of villages and towns have been determined part of the "Hampshire Basin," which includes the strata of by it. Near Shaftesbury a bed of sandstone is qual'ried for the same age in Hants and the Isle of Wight. building purposes. Fossils are not numerous, but a branch- Woolwich and Reading Beds.-These consist of sands, ing sponge and the shells Pecten asper, P. quaari('ostatus, pebble-beds, and clays, with sometimes a layer of green- &c., show the strata to be of marine origin. coated flints at the base where they rest on the Chalk. The Chalk.-All the ordinary subdivisions are recognisable IThey form a narrow band from the south side of Studland in Dorsetshire. First we have the Chalk Marl, about 60 I Bay through Lulworth, Wool, Winfritb, Warmwell, Piddlefeet thick, greyer than ordinary chalk, and containing a I town Heath, Bloxworth, Corfe Mullen, and Edmonsham, slight admixture of clay; at its base is a. bed about 18 their outcrop being from half-a-mile to a mile wide, and it inches thick, containing phosphatic nodules and many can be often traced by the oak trees which grow well o~, fossils; this layer is known as the Chloritic Marl; next this formation. The old name for this division was t1Y comes the Lower Chalk, or chalk without flints, from 50 to "Plastic Clay," and red and mottled clays are of frequer:~ 150 feet thick; its top is the chalk-rock, a hal'd thin band occurrence; at Crendle Common, near Cranborne, coarse of cream-coloured chalk i the Upper Chalk, or chalk-with- pottery is made from a bed of this kind; fossils are wanting, flints, is 600 feet thick on the east of Dorset, but it thins except that leaves are found in a pale grey sandy pipe-cla~' westward. near East Bloxworth. As a whole the chalk forms a broad band 10 miles in OutHers of the Reading Beds occur on the chalk at Binwidth, extending from Cranborne and Cranborne Chase to combe Down, and on Black Down above Portisham, &c the south-west, past Blandford, Sturminster Marshall, Bere On Affpuddle Heath and Piddletown Heath, east of Dol" RegIS, Piddleto,m; Hilton, Cerne Abbas, and Dorchester. chester, large natural pits occur, like inverted cunCE. The Downs abm·e Beaminster are sf'parated from the main measuring from 30 to 100 feet in diameter i these have bear.. mass, and othf'r ontliers occur further west near Mosterton. formed by the removal of the underlymg chalk by water Cricket St. Thomas, &c.: along all the line now mentioned char.ged with carbonic acid gas ; the upper sands, &c., havft t1.le dip is gentle and to the south-east. then fallen in.

DIRECTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. 13 'The London Clay (or Bo.qnor Beds)' forms a similar surface the well-known raised beach at the southern end of the Isle feature to its Reading Beds, which it closely accompanies of Portland; it is composed Qf sea-worn pebbles, at its along the line just noted: the outcrop between Wimborne highest point is 53 feet above sea level, and contains shells Minster and Fordingbridge is rather wider, occupying from such as inhabit the shores of the English Channel; in Portone to two miles at the surface; it consists of brown sandy land, too, many bones have been found in caverns and clays containing irony concretions and flint pebbles. fissures in the limestone. At many places great masses of The Lower Bagshot Beds form all the land round Poole a coarse sandstone, called Druid or Sarsen stones, or g;rey Harbour, leaching westwards through Wareham and wether!!!, are found lying on the surface; one called the Moreton to Woodsford, and stretching east and north-east Agglestone, near Studland, is computed to weigh 400 tons ; across the boundary of the county by Kingston and Wool- these are now believed to be the remnants of some hard bridge; they are finely exposed in cliffs along the coast bed of the tertiary series, probably m the Bagshot Beds, from Studland to Bournemouth and eastwards. Thel con- which formerly extended far to the west of their present sist of sands of varied colours, containing beds of pipe-day I limits. Of glacial action, no undoubted signs have yet been and brick-clay. Mr. Gardner estimates the total thickness observed in Dorsetshire. at 1,000 feet. The clays are largely dug at Wareham, Masses of blown sand, forming low mounds, occur on the Poole, and elsewhere. In 1877 there were exported from coast in Portland Roads, and at the entrance of Poole Poole Harbour 56,345 tons of clay, most of it for British Harbour; a famous mass of pebbles--the ChesH Beachpotteries in Staffordshire, &c., but 4,971 tons went to stretches for 16 miles between Portland and Burton Bradforeign ports; 16,570 tons of clay were also used at works stock, the stone diminishing regularly in size from four in the district, where ornamental tiles, tesselated pave- inches in diameter at Portland to little more than sand at ments, &c., are largely made; in 1879 the quantity of clay Bradstock. exported from Poole had risen to 67,019 tons. The clays PREHISTORIC MAN.-Of the earliest kind of stone implecontain many remains of plants. leaves, &c., indicating a ments which are assigned to the Palf£olithic Stone Age only rather warm climate. two epecimens have yet been found in Dorsetshire, one from It is not known when the Poole"Play was first worked, but the gravels at Wimborne Minster, and another at Dewlish, there is an "Order in Council," as far back as 1666, three miles north of Piddletown; both are of flint. Of the directing that no dues were to be paid on "tobacco pipe- later or Neolithic Period many specimens have'been found; clay" at Poole. these are mostly chipped out of flint and include celts or SURFACE DEPOSITs.-The chalk is in many places thickly axe-heads, arrow-heads, flakes or knives, hammers, scrapers, covered by flints, the debris of higher beds of chalk which &c. They occur in the surface soil, or in the mounds which have been denuded by weathering- agencies. There are are the burial places ofthe early tribes who inhabited this thick gravels, too, on the table land between Poole and country. Many are found in and near the famous enBournemouth, containing many pebbles of quartz, granite, trenched camps on the chalk hills at Badbury Rings, Hod &c., which have probably been bronght from the old Cornish Hill, Maiden Castle, &c., and at Affiington, Bradford Abbas, rocks of the west; these are the high-level gravels of Mr. Poundbury, Ridgeway Hill, &c. In a barrow at Affiington Codrington, and he considers that they were formed in the a ring of Kimmeridge shale was found with a,bronze ring, valley of a river running from west to east, and previous to flint-flakes and arrow-heads, a perforated whetstone, and the separation of the Isle of Wight from the mainland. glass and bone beads ; at Porrington a shallow one-handled Low-level gravels-i.e., such as are not more than 40 or saucer or stand of Kimmeridge shale was found; at Winter50 feet above the existing rivers, occur in most of the deep bourne Steepleton a perforated axe-head, made of greencombes and along the sides of the valleys. In these remains stone, was found in a barrow with some burnt bones. All of the extinct mammoth (Elephas primigenius) and of these relics belong to a period which closed some thousands Rhinoceros tichorhinus have been found, especially in the of years before the Christian era, for when Cresar landed in gravels of the Stour, the Piddle and the Avon. Britain the inhabitants had long been acquainted with the . Evidence of an elevation of the coast line is afforded by use of iron. W. J. H. -.

14 DORSETSHIRE. [KELLY'S The following Table shows the acreage under each kind of crop, and the number of horses, cattle, sheep and pigs in the County of Dorset, as taken from the Agricultural returns, 1894:- c , , - - - CROPS. ACRES. UVE STOCK. l\UMBER. , , < . Corn and cereals ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 89,953 Horses for agriculture, brood mares, and unRoots, artificial grasses, cabbage, and rape..• 52 ,616 broken horses •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 16,438 Clover and grasses •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 45,946 Cows in milk or calf................................. 51,152 Permanent pasture ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 298,634 Other cattle • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 28,803 Bare fallow............................................. 3,087 Sheep, 1 year old •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 242,7°8 Orchards................................................ 4,338 Ditto, under I year ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 14°,985 Market gardens ....................................... 187 Pigs •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 53,769 Nursery grounds .....•.....:........................ 126 Woods and plantations.....•........................ 31 ,457 • , Dorset8hire contained in 1891 inhabited houses •.••.••....•..•.....••.••.••....•..••..•.••.••..• l?arisll~ ••••...••.••..•...•.......••••.•............•........•............................................. In x874 owners of land below I acre 7,494 Owners of land of 1 acre and upwards •••.••••••••.••... .•. .••.••.••.••••••.•.••...... 3,409 Total acreage of rated lands 593,388 Rateable value........................................................................................... £995,231 Heath land for grazing, acres 14,075 Total acreage of the county 632 ,272 COUNTY POLICE. HEAD QVARTERS, DORCHESTER. . The force consists of I Chief Constable, I Deputy Chief Constable, 6 Superintendents, 3 Inspectors, 14 Sergeants, 124 Constables Chief Constable, Captain Amyatt E. Am~·att Deputy Chief Constable, John Haines, PooIe Chief Clerk, Superintendent William P. Plummer, Dorchester Bridport DiVlision, George Brooms, superintend'Elnt, Be,amiIliSt&'. Sta,ti()Ds-*Askerswell, Beaminstecr, Bradpole, *Bridpovt, Bridport Harbour, BroadwindwT, Burton Brads-rock, Chla;rdstock, Oharmouth, Cheddoington, Ohideock, Corscombe, Hook, *Lyme Regis, *Mars'hallsea, ~ethel'lb1lJ1'Y, Poorstock, Thorncombe, Whitchurch Canonioorum Th!its include's Borouglhs of Bl'<idport &; Lyme Regis Bllandford DiV!ision, George Brown, inspector, BIandford. Stations. *Blandford, Farnham, *Melborne St. Andrew, Milton Abba,g" Spetisbury, Stickland, Stourpaine, Thrrant Gunville, Winterborne. White-hUTch Thits inc-ludes Borough of Blandford. Cern.e Dlivision, AJired Hazzard, superintendent, Cerne. SlrotioDlS-Buckland Ne.wton, Ceme .Abba.s, Chesilborne, Hillfield, Pydeltrenthide, Pulham, Sydling St. Nicholas Dorohes.ter DiviJsion, William P. Plummer, superirutendent, DorcheSlliecr. StartiQIlJs-AbbotJslbury, Broadmayne, Broadway OhiaI"IDlinster, Ohicke.rell, Dorchester, Evershot, Frampton, Mlilbury Sampford, Maiden Newton, Osmington, *PoI"tland, Puddlehinton, Puddletown, Puncknowle, *Radipole, Reforne, ToIler, Westlham, Win'terb()rne Abbas, Wyke Regis This includes the Borough of Dorchester. ShaftelSibury Division, George Louis Elford, in~pector, Shaftesbbury. Sttations-Bourton, Fontmell Magna, Giillingham, Kington Magna, Melbury A.bbas, Shaftesbury, Stower West This includes Borough of Shafltes'bury. Sherborne Divisi'On, John Simpson, superiDJtendent, Sherborne. Sba'tions-Caundle Bishop, Compton Nether, Leigh, Longburton, Sherborne, Y~minster SturminSiter Division, George Burden, inspector, SturmiDls.ter Newton. Stamons-Ohlild Okeford, Hra.se1bury Bryan, M~rnhull, Okeford Fitzp1iine, St'lllbridge, Sturrminster Newton Wareham Division, Henry Carter, superintendent, Wareham. Stations-Bere Regis, Ohuroh. Knowle, *Oorfe OaJstle, Langton Matravel"s, LulwOI'lth East, Morden, Moret<ln, Swanage, Wareham, *WiDJfrith, WO<lI, Wint,erborne Kingston This includes Borough of W~reham. WilIDborne Division, Joseph Marsh, superintendent, Pool rood, Wimborne. S,te,ti'oDls-AlderiholJt, Bourne Valley, Constitution Hill, Corfe Hills, *Cranborne" Gussage All Slllints, Hampreston, Hanley, Holt, Horton, KiDison, Lytchett Minster, Shapwick, Sturminster M1arslhaIl, Verwood, Wallis Down, Wimborne, Witchampton * Serjeants' Stations.

DIRECTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. IS • LORD LIEUTENANT AND CUSTOS ROTULORUM, RIGHT HONOURA.BLE THE EARL OF ILCHESTER P.C. ~Ielbury House & Abbotsbury Castle, Dorchester. CHAIRMAN OF THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS, HA.STI~GS BURTON MIDDLETON ESQ., Bradford Peverell, Dorchester. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN OF QUARTER SESSIONS. COL. JOHN ROBERT PHELIPS GOODDEN, Compton House, Sherborne. Marked thus • are also Deputy Lieutena.nts. • Adams Albert ThompSDn esq. Bellair, Charmouth *Alington :Lord M.A. Crichel house, Wimborne; & Alington nouse, South Audley street, London W .Anderson Kenneth Lockwood Morrison esq. Cluny house, Swanage S.O Ashley Rt. Hon. AnthDny Evelyn Melbourne P.C., ~LA. Broadlands, Romsey Astell Major-Gen. Charles Edward, West lodge, Puddlehinton, Dorehester *Bankes Walter Ralph esq. Kingston Lacy, Wimborne *Rankes Wynne AIbert esq. Wolfeton house, Dorchester BlU'kworth Edmund esq. South house, Piddletrenthide, Dorchester Batten. Hierbert Butler esq. RA. Hollands, Yeovil *Batten John esq. F.S.A. AIdon, Yeovil B3Itten Lieut.-Col. John Mount, The White house, Up Carnet Dorcbester Benett-Stanford John Montague esq. Pyt house. Ti,sbury Bentinck William George Frederick Cavendish esq. M.A. 50 Allison road, Streatham common, London S W Best Lieut.-Col. George Charlton house, Donhead St. Mary. Salisbury Bingham 001. Rd. C. W. Bingham'.s Melcombe. Dorchstr Bond Gel'6ld Denis esq. Creech grange, Wareham *Bond In.Wentworth Garneys esq.Creech grange,Warehm *Bond Nathaniel esq. Creech grange, Wareham Bond Thomas esq Bower Henry Syndercombe esq. Fontmell, Child Okeford. Blandford Bragge Capt. John Arthur. Sadborow, Chard, Somerset; Brouncker Henry Fra'PCis esll.. West Blagdon, Oranborne, Salisbury Brymer Wm.Emest M.P. Dsington ho. near Dorche·ster Bullen Lt.-Col. In. Bullen Symes, Catherston. Charmouth Burt John Mowlem, esq. Purbeck house, Swanage. Calcraft Wm. Montagu esq. Rempstone hall. Wareham Cartwright Capt. Hy.Aubrey. UpwDod,Handley. Salisbury Cecil Lord Eustace Brownlow Hy. Gascoigne-, Lychett Heath house, Poole; & 32 Eccleston sq. London SW Charlesworth Wm. esq. Westhaye, Hawkchurch,Axminster Churchill Lieut.-Col.Ohas.Morant,Holmwood pk.Wimbrne Churchill Georget Onslow, Alderholt park, Salisbury Clay-Ker-Seymer Harry Ernest esq. St. James' club, 106 Piccadilly, London W Clayton Albert esq. Bradford Abbas, Sherborne Colfox Thomas Alfred esg. Coneyga-r, Bridport Colfox William esg. RA. Westmead, Bridport Colman Robt. esq. Wadenhoe, Marlboro' rd. Boumemouth Cox In. Russell esq. Ty Issa, LlanfarianR.S.O.Ordgnshre Dammers Alfd. Wm. Hounsell esq. Downe hall, Bridport Denne Maj.-Gen. Lambert Hy. The Down Wood,Blandford Digby Lord, Minterne house, Dorchester; & 39 Belgrave square, London SW Digby John Kenelm Digby Wingfield- esq. M.P. Sherborne castle, Sherborne Digby Major William George Digby Wingfield-, Chetnole house, Sherborne D'Oyly ~IajOJ;-Gen. Sir Charles WaIters bart. Newlands, Charlton Marshall, Blandford *du-Boulay John esq. Donhead hall, Salisbury Dugdale ~fajor Arthur George R.A. Stock house. Sturminster Newton Dugdale James Boardman esg. Sandford, Wareham DugmoreHoraceRadclyfIe esq.M.A.TheMnt.Prkstne.R.S.0 Eldon Earl of, Stowell park.. Northleach. Gloucester Eliot George Edward esq. Bincleaves, Weymouth *Eliot Richard ffolliott esq. Westmead, Radipole, Weymth *Evans William Herbert esq. F.RG.S., M.A. Forde abpey, Chard F'arquharson Edward GeoiI'ge esq. Langton cottage, Langton, Blandford *Farguharson James John esq. Langton house, Blandford Farrer Oliver Cooke esg. Binnegar hall, Wareham *Fellowes James Herbert esq.Mortimer lodge, Stratfield Mortimer, Mortimer RS.O Fethel'stonhaugh-Frampton Harry Rupert esq. Moreton. Dorchester *Fetherstonhaugh-Frampton Rupert Pennefather esq. Moreton. Dorchester Ffooks Thomas esq. Totnell, Leigh, Sherborne Fife Capt.William Henry. Langton hall,N()rthallerton,Yrks Floyer Ge.o. Wm. esq. RA. Stafford house, D()rchester Forbes Major Lachlan, Shillingstone, Blandford Fox-Pitt Alexander Edward Lane esq. F.S.A. 4 Grosvenor gardens. LondonSW. Fryer William Rolles esq. RA. Verwood mnr. Salisbury *FyIer John Wm. Townsend esq. Hethfelto~~ Wareham Garland Rev. Geo. Valis M.A. Stone cottage, Boscombe *GIyn Sir Richard Geo. bart. Gaunts house, Wimborne GIyn Rev. Carr In. M.A. Recrory,Witchampton,Wimborne Glyn Capt. Carr Stuart, Woodleaze, Wimborne *Goodden Col. In. Robt. Phelips, Compton ho. Sherborne Gordon Charles: William esq. Wincombe park,Shaftesbury Gordon George Henry esg. The Beeches. Sherborne Grove Sir Thomas Fraser bart. M.P. F0rne ho. Salisbury Grove Wltr.Jn. esq.:Manor ho.Berwick St.John. Salisbury Groves Major John, Bridge house, Beaminster Guest Arthur Edward esq. 40 Halfmoon st. London W *Guest Montague John' esq. Devonshire house, Devonshire buildings, Weymouth Guest Thos.Merthyr esq.RA.lnwood,Henstridge,Blandfrd Gundry Edlward Pearkes esq Gundry Joseph esq.The Hyde, Bothenhampton, Bridport Hanham Sir John Alex. bart. M.A Hardcastle J.sph.Alfd. esq.M.A.Woodlnds.Beaminstr.RS. 0 Hardy Thomas esg. ~Iax-Gate house, Dorchester Harvey Robt.Rideout esq. The Priory,Gt.Milton,Tetswrth Hawkesworth Major In.Wm.BainR.A.Stokeford, Wareham Head John Merrick esg. Pennsylvania castle, Portland Henley Col. Henry Cornish, Leigh house, near Chard Henning Lieut.-Gen. Shurlock (lB. Frome Whitfield house, DOTChester Hitehcock Henry Knight :M.D. Christowell, Branksome park, Bournemouth

16 DORSETSHIRE. [ KELLY'S IIody William Trevelyan esq *Portman Viscount, Bryanston house, Blandford; &; 22 Hody Capt. William Tre.V'elyan Portman square, London W *Holford Thos.esq.Castle Hill,BucklandNewton,Dorchester Portman Col. Augustus Berkeley, Westfield, Wimbo1'll8 Hoskins Henry William esq. M.A. North Perrott manor, Portman Hon. Claud Berkeley, Manor house, Child Crewkerne, Somerset Okeford, Blandford Hounsoell William esq. Wykes court, Bridport Portman Hon. Edwd. Wm.Berkeley, Heswrcombe,Taunton Howard Col. Samuel Lloyd, Ashmore manor, Salisbury Preston John William esq. Cliff cottage, Lyme Begis Hughes Gibb FTancis esq. The Manor house, Tarrant Pretor Samuel Ashton esq. Be~eld house,near Weymouth Gunville, Blandford Badclyffe Charles James esq. Hyde house, Wareham *Ilchester Right Hon. Earl of, P.C. Melbury house, Dor- Ray James Frederick esq. Thorngrove, Gillingham chester; & Holland house, Kensington W Rood Edward Stanhope esq. Chardstock house, Chard Jaml's Allrahftm Rooke esq. Bothenhampton, Bridport Russell Capt. Thomas, Beaminster Kindersley Edward Leigh esq. Clyffe, Dorchester Sanctuary Campbell Fortescue Stapleton esq. Mangerton *Lane Major-Gen. Charles Powlett, Glendon, Corfe house, Melplash R.S.O Mullen, Wimborne Sandwich Earl of, Hooke court, Beaminster Langdon John Churchill Stuckey esq. Parrocks 10. Chard Saunders Bt. Erasmus esq.Alton Pancras,Cerne,Dorchestr Lawrie James Macpherson M.D. Greenhill, Weymouth Sawbridge-Erle-Drax Wanley Ellis esq. Holnest park, Leas ENiott esq. 1'IJl.P., M.A. South Lytchet' Minste.r, Sherborne; & Qlantigh Towers,Wye,near Ashford,Kent Poole; & 14 Queen Anne'~ gate, London SW Scutt Chas. esq. Wyke Oliver, Preston, Weymouth :McAdam Major Jas.John Loudon,GreenhilI ho.Sherborne Serren Dalton Haskoll esq. Haddon lodge, Stalbridge S.O McLean Allan esq. M.D. St. Martin's, Rodwe1l, Weymouth *Sneridan AIgernon Thomas Brinsley esq. Frampton :Malmesbury Earl of, Heron court,Ohristchurch,Wimbome court, Dorchester Manger Alfred Thomas esq. Stock hill, Gillingham Smith-Marriott Sir Wm.Hy.bart. The Down ho.Blandford ~ransel Arthur Edmund esq. Grove house, Dorchester Spal'Ks William esq. M.S.A. Manor house, Langton, Her- *Mansel Col. George Pleydell, Smedmore. Warebam ring, Weymouth; & Crewkerne :Mansel George Morton esq. Puncknowle manor, Dorcheste~ Speke Hugh esq. Elwell lodge, Weymouth :'dansel John Delulynde esq. Smedmore, Wareham Stalbridge Lord P.C. MoteDmbe house, Shaftesbury; & Mansel-Pleydell Lieut.-Col. Edmund Morton, Longthorns, 12 Upper Brook street, London W Blandford Steward Col. Richd.Oliver Fras.Nottingham ho.Dorchestr *Mansel-Pleydell John Clavell esq. B.A. Whatcombe Still Capt. James Charles, The Hyde, Bridport house. Blandford Stilwell Henry esq. Steepleton manor, Dorchester :Marker Richard esq. Combe, Honiton, Devon Stua~Gray Lieut.-Col. Francis James, Manor house, :'d:artin Arthur esq. Rampisham manor, Dorchester Blandford St. Mory, Blandford :Middleton Hastings 13urton esg.Bradford Peverell,Dorchstr *Sturt Hon. Humphrey Napier M.P. Crichel house, *MiddIeton Hastings Nathaniel esq. Bradford Peverell Wimborne; &; 38 Portman iSqua1'l6, London W house, Dorchester Swinburne-Hanllam John Castleman esq. 18a, Goldhurst *Monro Hector esq. Edmondsham house, Salisbury terrace, South Hampstead NW Monro Hector Edmond esq. Bazzleways, Milborne Port, Sykes Major Oam. Q Belvidere, Esplanade, Weymouth Sherborne Talbot John Reginald Oharles esq Munro Campbell esq. Fairfield, Lyme Regis Talbot John ReginaJd Francis George esq Noel Gel'llld Thomas esq Tatchell-Bullen John Bullen Tatchell esq. Manor house, Palairet Hy. Hamilton esq. M.A. Cattistock 10. Dorchester Marshwood, Charmcm.t~ Whitehurch Parka Charles Ethelston esq. Vine's Close, Wimborne Tennant Major-Gen. Thomas Boone Everest, 8 Belvidel"e, Parke Gen. Sir Wm. K.C.B. Thornhill ho.Stalbridge S.O Esplanade, Weymouth Parke Wm. Alcock, Whilbeck esq. Thornhill, Stalbridge Thornhill Mark Bensley esq. 10 Waterloo cr~scent, Dover Parry-Okeden Lieut.-Col. Uvedale Edward, Turnworth Thornton Reginald esq. Birkin ho. Stinsford, DOl'ohester house, Blandford Thornton Regina.ld Douglas esq. OulJiford ho. Dorchester Poorce-Edgcumbe Sir Edward Robert LL.D. Somer- Thresher John esq. Corfe hill, Badipole, Weymouth !I.eigh, Dorchester *Troyte-Chafyn-Grove Geo. esq. North Oroker ho. Yeovil Pelly Sir Harold bart. Fifelh·ead. house, BllIth Truell Major-Gen. Bobert Holt C.B. Onslow, Wimborne Philpot Thomas Embray Davenport esq. Holme Cleve, Udal John Symonds esq. Conservative club, 74 S~. Lyme Regis I James' street, London SW PhipPsl-Hornby Oapt. Geoffrey esq. Sandley, Gillingham WaIler Major-Gen. Wm.Noel R.A. Grosvenor lo.Sherborne Pickard-Cambridge Col. Jocelyn, Bloxworth house, Ware- Webber Felix Sta.nley Henry esq. 25 Tedworth square, ham; &; Stanton court, Weymouth Ohelsea, London S W Pike Lau.rence Warbuxton esq. Furzebrook, QlUrch Weld Humphrey Fredk. esq. Chideock manor, Bridport Knowle, Wareham Williams Arbhur Scott, Hill house, Yetminster Pinney Edward esq. Blackdown house, Beammster *Williams Edwd.Wilmotesq.B.A.Herringstone ho. Drehstr Pinney George Fredk. esq. Brooklands, Beaminster R.S.O Williamlll Herbert Scott esq. M.A. Botheaay ho. Dorchstr Pinney Col. William F.R.G.S. Somerton-Erleigh, Somer- *WiIIiams Montague Scott esq. Woolland ho. Blandford ton S.O. Somerset; &; 30 Berkeley equare, London W *Wllliam Col. Robert M.P. Bridehead house, Dorchester PlowdeDi Sir William Chichme K.O.S.I. 5 Park crescent, *Wimbo1'lle Lord M.A. Cword Manor, Wimborne; & Portland place, London W Wimborne house, 22 Arlington street, London SW Pope Alfred esq. SoutJh Walk house, Dorcheilter *Wolverton Lord, Iweme Minster house, BIandford; & "Porta.rlington Earl of, Came house, Dorchester 17 ArJington street, London W Clerk of the Peace, E. .A.rchdall Frooks, Sherbome Deputy Lieutenants (Not Magistrates). Ashley The Hon. Anthony Cooil Hawkins F. B. esq !Hambro Everard Alex. esq. Hayes Plaoe,Beckenham,Kent Balli Pandeli eaq. B.A. Alderbrook, Cranleigh, Guild· Hambro P. esq. Abbey Milton ford; & 17 Belgrave square, London S W

DIRECTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. AFFPUDDLE. 17 ABBOTSBURY is a large village and parish near the to be part cif the ruins of a mansion built on the site of West Fleet, pleasantly ,situated in a deep valley open to and out ot the remains of the abbey, by Sir Giles the sea at the oSouth-west and sheltered by lofty hills to Strangeways, and in which he resrided: the conventual the north, and terminus of the Abbotsbury branch of church, traces of which still exist, stood a little to the the Great Western railway from Weymouth, 9 miles north of the abbey: the old tithe-'barn of the monastery south-west from Dorchester, 9 north-west from Wey- is stiIJ in good preservation; it is 105 yards in length, mouth, in the Western division of the county, Uggescombe with large porch and buttresses on the north side; adhundred, Dorchester petty sessional division, Weymouth joining thereto is an hexagonal towex. On an eminence union and county court district, rural deanery of Bridport south-west of the village are situated the ruins of St. (.ibbotsbury portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and dioce.se Catharine's chapel, supposed to have been erected in the of Salisbury. The church of St. Nichola,s is a "ery reign of Edward IV.; it was of stone, strengthened by ancient Gothic fabric of stone, consisting of chancel, nave buttreslses on the north and south sides; at the north- . and aisles, separated by piers and Pointed arches, antique west angle is a tower; the roof is finely arched and a porch and a fine square embattled western tower, with 6 few of the ornaments still remain: from its altitude it bells' and clock: over the we,stern door is a curious figure serves for a landmark at sea, being visible at a great emblematic of the Trinity-an old man in a sitting distance. Henry VIII. granted the manor to Sir Giles posture, with a crucifix between his knees and a dove at Strangeways knt. and it was confirmed by Elizabeth, his right ear: on the north side the windows are Gothic, with the fishery, water, and soil of East Fleet, also the the walls being surmounted by pinnacles; the windows swannery ann site of the monastery of West Fleet: from on the south side are Debased English, 166o: it has an this family it desoended to the Earl oil Ilchester P.C. antique font: in the pulpit, which is beautifully carved, whose seat is Abbotsbury CaS'tle, a Gothic residence are two holes from bullets \Said to have been fired in at commanding a beautiful view of the West Bay. Nearly the windows by Cromwell's soldiers: the chancel lias a a mile to the south of the village are the swannery, handsome altar-piece having the Ten Commandments in decoy and keeper's house, where as many as 1,057 swans gold letters on a black ground; the remains of Orc the are kept, together with all kinds of wild fowl. The founder are deposited under the chancel: the church was inhabitants' are chiefly employed in the maekerel fishery reseated in 1886, when a new organ was presented: and agriculture. The Right Hon. the Earl of llchester there are 450 sittings of panelled oak: in the graveyard P.C. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The are two large stone coffins; one found under the north soil is red clay chiefly; a seam of iron ore runs through porch and the other in the churchyard. The register the village, extentJ about 3 miles and from one-eighth to dates 'from the year 1574. The living is a vicarage, rent- half a mile in breadth. The chief crops are wheat, charge £9, net yearly value £138, with 60 aeres of glebe barley and potatoes, but most of the land is in pasture. and residence, in the gift of. the Earl of Ilchester, and The area is 5,616 acres, of which 545 are water; rateable held since 1892 by the Rev. John Harvie Douglas M.A. value, £5,500; the population in 1881 was 979 and in of Downing College, Cambridge. Here are Congrega- 1891 was g03. tional and Primitive Methodist chapels. Charities pro- Rodden is a hamlet 2! miles south-east; East and ducin~ £17 19s. 6d. yearly, arising principally from a West Elworth, other hamlets, I! miles south-east; Look rent-charge on the manor, left in 1754 ,by Mrs. Susannah is another hamlet 2! miles north-west. Strangways Hormer, are distributed in money. Mr. Deputy Parish Clerk, George W. Ford. William Jennings, by will dated 1852, gave £500 in trust for the benefit of the Sunday school. This place is Po,st, M O. &; T. 0., S. B., Express- Delivery &; Annuity of great antiquity: Canute, the Danish King, gave it &; Insurance Office.-Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Gibbons, subtogether with several others, to Ore, his favourite postmistress. Letters received \from Dorchester at steward: in early ages BertuU had built a church here 6.30 a.m. ,&; 3.0 p.m.; dispatched at 9·35 a.m·&;7·IOp.m which he dedicated to St. Peter; that having gone to Parochial Schools (mixed &; infants) (endowed with £20 decay, Orc founded a monaste'l'Y in the year 1044, and yearly) &; a master's house were erected by the late filled it with monks from Cerne Abbey; he also endowed Earl of Ilchester, at, a cast of about £1,5°0, for 200 it with eight of the neighbouring manors: the abbey children; average attendance, 130 ; principally supstood on rising ground south of the village: the ruins ported by Lord Ilchester; Henry Charles Robt. Bucke; of the gateway still remain in tolerable preservation: master; :Miss Peel, infants' mistressl near this gateway is a gable covered with ivy, supposed Railway Station, James Wills, statipn master r..chester The Right Hon. the Earl of'Dunford Richard, shopkeeper Hodder JOf)€ph, farmer, Abbey farm P.C. (Lord Lieut.), Abbotsbury Dunford William, basket maker Hodder William Charles, butcher castle &; Melbury house; &; Holland Ford Charles, grocer Hurden Thos.&;Wm.farmers&;coal mers house, London SW Ford Geo. Hebditch, farmer, East frm Hutchings James, clerk of the works Douglas Rev. In. Harvie M.A. (vicar), Gee Susan (Mrs.), baker, tea, coffee to the Earl of Ilchester The Manor house &; refreshment rooms; refreshments Kellaway Jsph. dairyman, Bridge la Hawkins William, The Vicarage at moderate charges Kellaway Thomas, farmer, Elworth trundy John Nicholas, ,"Yest end Gibbons Jane Elizabeth (Mrs.), iron- Knight Elizabeth (Mrs.), Swan P.R. Poynter John, Hare monger, fancy stationer &; patent &; blacksmith COMMERCIAL. medicine vendor, Post office Limm Joseph John, shopkeeper Adams John, farmer Gibbons Jsph. farmer &; rate collector Mundy Samuel, cooper &; wheelwright Bag~ Joseph, farmer Gill Henry, boot maker Rendall In. Bartlett, miller (water) Benbow Joseph, head gardener to Green John, hair dresser Roper John, blacksmith Earl of Ilchester Green Louisa (Mrs.), apartments Toms Charles, baker Blig-don Edwin, b:acksmith Hawkins William, surgeon, &; medical Vincent Emanuel, farmer, Rodden Brodby Wm. dairymn.AbbeyFarm dairy officer, Abbotsbury district, Wey- Vincent Phoobe (Mrs.), market gardnr Burden Walter, grooer &; draper mouth union &; Longbredy district, Vine Stephen, farmer, Look farm Carter Joseph, grocer &; farmer Dorchester union; also publio vac- Vivian Richard, saddler Cooper Tom, Ilchester Arms P.R cinator, The Vicarag-e White James. fa,rmer, New Barn Critchell Elizabeth (MiSlS), refresh- Hayne Charles, wheelwright White John Ford, farmer ment rooms Hayward John Westmacot &; George, Williams Samuel, farmer, Rodden Dark Henry, basket maker farmers, West farm Wood Sarah (Mrs.), farmer AFFPUDDLE (or Affpiddle), formerly called Aspun- 1 bells; it ~as originally appropriated to the Abbey of dell, is a parish on the river Trent or Piddle, 3£ miles Cerne, and at the dissolution of that house the vicarage north from the Moreton station on the Bournemouth was given to Thomas Lyllyngton, one of the monks of and Dorchester section of the London and South-Western that body, who caused the beautiful carved oak pUlpit I'ailway, 8 east-by-north from Dorchester and 10 north-- and seats to be erected in the church; on the end of one west from Wareham, in the Southern division of the of the seats is a carved inscription bearing date 1547: county, hundred of Hundredsbarrow, Wareham petty there is also a Norman font: 1he trefoil arch of the sessional division and county court district, union of south entrance to the church is of the date 1220: tIle Wareham and Purbeck, rural deanery of Whit{)hurch west window is stained and was inserted in 1880 by the (Bere Regis portion), archde.aconry of Dorset and diocese late ~frs Frampton, to the memory of Henry Frampton of Salisbury. The church of St. Laurence is an ancient esq. of Moreton House: the church was restored in 1878, oStrncture of stone and flint, chiefly in the Perpendicular and has 220 sitting'S The register dates from the year style, consisting- of chancel, nave and north aisle, south 1731. The living- in 1547 was a. vicarage, but in 1849 porch and a Decorated £'mbattled western tower with the rectory of Toners Puddle and the vicarage of Affpinnacles of the reign of Edward IV. containing 4 large puddle were united by order in COuncil; a.verage tithe DORSET 2

18 AFFPUDDl..E. DORSETSHIRE. [KELLY'S rent-charge £160, net income £185, ",ith 4 acres of east; Rogers Hill, I mile north-east; and Waddock, li glebe and residence in the gift of the representatives of miles south. the· late MrS'. Frampton, and held since 1869 by the Rev. Parish Clerk, Thomas Legg. Henry Peere Williams-l"reeman M.A. of Brasenose Col- Pos,t k Telegraph Office.-John Clarke, sub-postmaster. lege, Oxford. Children of this parish are apprenticed Letters< arrive through Dorchester, via l'uddletown, from Frampton's charit1", of Moreton. Mrs. Fetherswn- which is the nearest money order office, at 7.30 a.m.; haugh-Frampton is lady of the manor and the principal dispatched 5.30 p.m.; dispatched on sundays 9.45 landowner. The soil is light loam; subsoil, chalk. The a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is Wall Letter Box, BIJ"1lnts Puddle, cleared &t 5.15 p.m.; 3,818 acres; rateable value, [,2,750; the population in sundaY'S, 9.30 p.m 1891 was 434. School, Bryants Puddle, was built at the cost o'f the late On Bladen Heath and the other heaths are many R. Frampton esq. in 1870, for the children of Toners curious pits and ·barrows. At Clouds Hill are barrows. Puddle & those of this parish, for 100 children; The hamlebs in this parish-which is intersected by the average attendance, 66; Miss Eleanor James, mistre'SS Piddl~ are Pallington hamlet, I~ mile~ south; Bryants Carrier to Dorcpester. James Joiner, from Minterns Puddle tithing, 1 mile east; Oakers Wood, I mile south- Ferry, Bere Regis, passes through every wed. & sat Williams-Freeman Rev. Henry Peere Dibben Charles, dairyman Jeffery Robt.shoe ma. Bryant's puddle M.A. (vicar) Fooks Henry, blacksmith & shop- Kingman Thomas, dairyman, Bryant'. Billey Wm.Geo.miller (water) &; baker keeper, Bryant's puddle puddle Cake Emanuel, dairyman Foot Geo. Leonard, farmer, Pallington Mitchell George, farmer, Roger's hill Clarke John, shopkeeper, Post office House Wm. dairy frmr.Bryant's puddle Norton Wm.Brooks,frmr.Waddock frm Oo.bb Charles, carpenter Jaokson Wm. Pitt, farmer, Affpuddle Pope John, estate carpenter Courtney Chas.shpkpr.Bryants puddle west & Throop farms SpiceI' Henry, farmer, East farm ALDERHOLT is a parish, formed in 1894, and a the seat ot George O. Churchill esq. J.P. is an estate. village, I mile north from Daggons Road station on the granted to Anthony Gooche in the reign of Jame~ I. and Salisbury and Dorset branch of the London and South- once stocked with deer, but these were destroyed o~ Western railway, 16 miles from Salisbury, 14 from removed previous to this grant. The principal landWimborne and 96 from London, in the Eastern division owners are the. Marquess of Salisbury K. G. who is lord of the county, petty sessional division and county court of the manor, and G. O. Churchill esq. J.P. The area district of Wimborne, hundred of Cranborne, union of is 4,002 acres; rateable value, £1,917; population in Wimborne and Cranborne, rural deanery of Pimperne 1891 was' 696. (Wimborne portion), archdea.conry of Dorset and diocese Parish Clerk, Ge.orge Mann. of Salisbury; the river Blackwater flows through the Sexton, Frederick Manstone. parish. Alderholt, Daggons, Crendell and Cripplestyle, Post Office.-Tom Brewer, sub-postmaster. Letters formerly hamlets of Crall'borne, were formed November through Salisbury, via Fordingbridge, by rural post14, 1849, into a, dist·rict for ecclesiastical purposes. man, at 9 a.m. & dispatched at 5.30 p.m. week days The church ()If St. James was erected by the i& II a.m. on sundays. The nearest money order office Marquess of Salisbury, and endowed by the Marqu{'ss is' at Fordingbridge. Telegrams are received &; disand the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the former con- patched at Daggons Road stilltion for this place. Postal tributing £25 yearly, and the latter now nearly ['125 a orders are issued here, but not paid year; the church, a building of local sandswne in the Wall Letter Box, Alderholt, cleared at 5.45 p.m.; Early English style, consist~ of small chancel and nave, sundays, I'I.IS a.m western porch and turret containing 1 bell: there are Wall Box, Cripplemyle, cleared at 4.45 p.m 200 sit.tings. The register dates from the year 1849. County Police, Samuel Woodman, constable The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value about £150, School (mixed), built in 1847 &; enlarged abont 1874- net [,123, with xesidence, in the gift of the 'vicar of for 156 children; average attendance, 109; &; is supCranborne, and held since 1890 by the Rev. J ames ported in part by the Marquess of Salisbury; George Richard Sanderson. There is a Congregational chapel Mann, master at Cripplestyle and one ab Alderholt. Alderholt Park, Railway Station,-Daggons Road,Francis Clarke,stnmstr (Marked thuS! * to be addressed Rayter Alex.&Benj.frmrs.Warren farm Read Wm. brick ma. &; coal merchant Cranborne, Salisbury.) *Hibberd Aram, farmer &; beer re- Read Augustus, farmer, Daggons fnn Churchill Geo. O. J.P. Alderholt park tailer, Hare lane, Cripplestyle Rose Henry, blacksmith Cochrane Mrs. Alderholt lodge Hibberd Josiah, farmer, Goatham Scammel Frank, farmer, Manor farm Lush :Miss, Heather bank. Hibberd Silus,frmr.Hart's fm.Daggons Shearing James, farmer, Daggons Sanderson Rev. Jas. Richd. Vicarage Hood Albert, farmer, Bull hill Shearing James, jun. carpenter COMMERCIAL. Hood Henry, farmer, Bull hill Sherring Love (Mrs.), farmer Bailey John, shoe maker Inkpen WaIter, farmer & farm bailiff *Sims Henry, blacksmith, Crendell *Brewer Geo. shopkeeper, Crendell toG.O.Churchill e~q.J.P.Cross road8 *Sims Wm. fagot dealer, Cripplestyle Bt'ewer Lot, woodman to the Marquess James Joseph, farmer, Hill farm Thorn Frank, farmer, Starvington of Salisbury Jung Fdk. H. brick ma. Daggons rd Thorner Tom, coal dealer Butler Edwin, baker & grocer Lush Henry, general dealer West William, tailor C:arke Francis, station master Mann Geo. asstnt. overseer & schlmstr *Williams Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Cutler Edward, miller (water) Nicklen Charles, farmer Cripplestyle Foster James, beer retailer Philpott Oharles, Churchill Arms P.R. Woodvine Jas. yeoman, Blackwater fro *Fry George, farmer, Crendell & shopkeeper, Daggons ALLINGTON is a parish within the borough of Bridport, which see. ALMER is a. parish and village on the Winterbourne since 1887 by the Rev. Vernon Robert Carter M.A. of and on the road from Dorchester to Wimborne, 6 miles Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Mrs. Erle-Drax is lady west from Wimborne, 6 south-south-ea.stl from Blandford of the manor and the sole landowner. The soil is gravel; and 3 west from Bailey Gate station on the Somerset and subsoil, chalk. The chief CTOPS are wheat and barley. Dorset section of the London and South-Western rail- The area is 1,161 acres; rateable value, [,1,213; the way, in the Eastern division of the county, Loosebarrow population in 1891 (including Mapperton, half a. mile hundred, Wimborne petty sessional division, Bland'ford west) was 133. union and county court district, rural deanery of Whit- Post Office.-Robert Manuel, sub-postmaster. Letters church (Poole portion), fll'chdeaconry of Dorset and dio- recehoed through Blanrlford at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched cese of Salisbury. The church of St. Mary is an ancient ab 5.10 p.m.; sundays at 11.30 a.m. The nearest building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave and south money ordpr &; telegraph office is aji Spettisbury porch, with a. lofty western tower surmounted by Wall Letter Box, Mapperton, cleared at 5 p.m.; sunbattlements and pinnacles and containing 4 bells: there days at 11.20 a.m are 60 sitting-so The register dates from the year 1539. This place is included in the Winterborne, Zelstone & The living is a rectory, aveTage tithe rent-charge £218, Almer United School Board district gross yearly value £241, net £145, with residence and 33 Board School, erected in 1882, for 80 children; average acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Erle-Drax, and held attendance, 60; :Mrs. Edith L. A. Martin, mistress Carter Rev. Vernon Robt.M.A.(rector) Dominey John, Red Lion P.R. & Lawrence Albert, farmer, Almer farm Dennett 'Walter, dairyman, Mapperton farmer, World's end Taylar Jesse, farmer, Mapperton ALTON P ANCRAS is II parish and small village, 9 county, hundred of Cerne, petty sessional division and miles north from Dorchester railway stations on the union of Cerne, Dorchester county court district, rural London and South-Western and Great Western railways deanery of Whitchurch (Cerne portion), archdeaconry of and 2, ellS! from Oerne, in the Western division of the Dorset and diocese of Sali~bury. The church of St.

DIRECTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. ASHMORE. HJ Fancras was rebuilt in 1875 from the design of Mr. and flint. The chief crops are corn and turnips. The Crickmay, of Weymouth: it is a building of stone in the area is about 2,243 acres; rateable value, £1,472; the Early English .style, and consists of chancel, nave, north population in 1891 was 229. porch and square western em;battled tower with pinna- Holcombe is half a mile nOTth-west. cles, and containing 4 bells: there are 150 sittings. The Sexton, Mrs. Elizabeth Lovelace. register dates from the year 1673. The living is a Post Office.-Charles Kellaway, sub-postmaster. Letters rectory, gross yearly value from tithe rent-charge £300, from Dorchester arrive at 6.10 a.m. &. via Cerne 4.30 average £224, net 1)91, with 10 acres of glebe and resi- p.m. (callers only); dispatched 9.35 a.m. &; 6.45 p.m. dence, in the gift o'f the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury, Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The and held since 1886 by the Rev. George Bull Southwell nearest money order &. telegraph offices are at PiddleB..!.. oil Trinity College, Cambridge. Robert Erasmus trenthide &:, Buckland Newton Saunders J.P. is lord of the manor and the principal land- ~ational School (mixed), built for 60 children; average owner. The soil is chalky, with stones; subsoil, chalk attendance, 24; Mrs. Payne, mistress Saunders Robert Erasmus J.P Elworthy 1Villiam, farmer Masters Alfred, shopkeeper Southwell Rev. Geo. Bull RA.(rector) Gale George, dairyman Waterman Harold Ro'bert. farmer Draper Lydia Ann (Mrs.), dairy ANDERSON (or Winterborne Anderstone) is a muted for £120 yearly, average £91, net income £75, parish watered by the Winterbourne, 4 miles south-west with 3 acres of glebe, in· the gift of Edward Markland from Bailey Gate station on the Somerset and Dorset esq. and held since 1891 by the Rev. Richard Askew section of the London and South-Western railway and RA. of Je§..us College, Cambridge, who is> also rector of 6 south from Blandford, in the Northern division of the and resides at Winterborne Zelstone. Edward Markcounty, hundred of Coombs-Ditch, Blandford petty ses- land esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. sional division, uniqn and county court district, rural The soil i~ gravel; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are deanery of Whitchurch (Poole portion), archdeaconry of wheat and barley. The area is 570 acres; rateable value, Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. £616; the population in 1891 was 66. ~Iichael, having fallen into decay, was rebuilt 1889 in the later Early English style in accordance with the original Letters through Blandford arrive at 8 a.m. &; at 4 p.m. ; design. It consistSJ of chancel, nave, south transept and dispatched at 4·45 p.m. The nearest money order &. western turret containing 2 bells. The register dates telegraph office is at Bere Regis from the year 1650. The living is a rectory, tithes com- The chilclx~ attend school at Wintel'borne Kingston Walker Misses, The Rectory I House Fredcrick James (~rs.), faTmer, The Manor houseARNE is a parish about 4 miles east from Wareham £375, net income (Arne) £100, with 10 acres of glebe, station on the Bournemouth and Dorchester line of the in the gift of W. Calcraft esq. and held since 1887 byLondon and South-Western railway, in the Eastern the Rev. Selwyn Blackett, who is a surrogate, and division o'f the county, hundred of Hasilor, \Yareham resides at Wareham. The Earl of Eldon is lord of thepetty sessional division and county court district. union manor and owner of the parish. The soil is sand; of Wareham and Purbeck, rural deanery of. Dorchester subsoil, sand and clay, valuable beds of which are worked (Purbeck portion), archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of in this neighbourhood and exported to all parts: a great Salisbury. The parish lies between Wareham and Poole port,ion of, the land is heath. The parish comprises about harbours; on an eminence there is a large barrow, which 4,196 acres, of which 1,580 are water; rateable value, has been used as a beacon. The church of St. Nicholas £2,858; the. population in 1,891 was> 123. is a small ancient structure of sandstone, situated on a Sexton, JaIDes Northover. .,light eminence in the village: it is in the Early English . style, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch with bell Lette,rs received through 1Vareham, which IS also the cote at west end and I bell: there are 60 sittings. The nearest money order &; telegraph office register dat<es' from the year 1762. The living is a per- School, with re'sidence for mistress, erected in 1874, at petual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Wareham, joint the expense of the' Earl of Eldon, for 40 children ;.-; gross yearly value from tithe rent-charge £508, average average attendance, 26; Miss Emily Downs, mistress Pinney Richard Edward, Arne house Candy George, jun. farm bailiff to the of the Warehilm &. Isle of PurbecRPinney Thomas William, Arne house Earl of Eldon board of guardians, Arne house COMMERCIAL. Grant George, farmer, Slepe farm Pinney Thos. Wm. ship pwnr.Arne ho Bird Thomas, dairyman to Mr. C. Pinney Richard Edward, clay mer- Smith Elizabeth (Mrs.), dairy Yearsley, Ridge farm chant, sLoom ship owner &. chairman AlSHMORE is a small parish on the borders of Wilt- Here is a. Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1855. Lieut.-Col. shire, 9 miles south from Semley station on the Salisbury Samuel Lloyd Howard C.B., D.L., J.P. of Goldings, and Yeovil line of the London and South-Western rail- Loughton, Essex and of The Cottage, is lord of the way, 6 'south-east from Shaftesbury and 9~ north of manor and principal landowner. The soil is chalk and Blandford, in the Northern division of the county, loam; subsoil, chalk and gravel. The chief crops are hundred of Cranborne, petty sessional division of Shaftes- wheat, oats, barley and beans. There is a large portion of bury, union and county' court district of Shaftes- woodland which gives a considerable employment in the bury, rural deanery of Pimperne (Blandford portion), production of faggots and hurdles; a large quantity of archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The flint for road making is also dbtained !from this parish. church of St. Nicholas (built on the site of the old The area is 2,301a. or. 32P.; rateable value, £1,318; and church) is of stone, in the Early English style, and con- the population in 1891 was 228. sists of chancel, nave and north aisle: vestry en the Hats Barn is I mile north-west. On the downs are north side of the chancel, and south porch: the aisle is barrows. . divided from the nave by two arches resting on a circular Parish Clerk and Sexton Charles Rabbets pier; the chancel flooring is, of Devonshire marble; there ' . . is a font of Beer stone, and a pulpit of oak, elaborately Post Office.-:Charles Pahl~,er Stmner, sub-postmaster. carved: there are four stained windows, one at the south Letters arrlv~ from Salisbury 7.30 a.m. sunday9 & side of the nave of two lights, representing Christ week day~; dlspatched 5·5 p:m. week days &:, 2.!j p.~. Feeding His Sheep and Restoring Sight to the Blind, and sundays. Postal orders' are l/>sued here, but .not pald. is the gift of E H. Howard esq.; the church will seat The nearest money order &:, telegpaph office IS' at Tol~ 160 people and wag opened October 2nd, 1874' The l~ Royal . .. . register dates from the year 1654. The living is a Nah~na~ School (mlXed~, WIth resldence for mlstress, rectory, average tithe rent-charge £240 , gross yearlybU;l1t III ,1840 for 95 chlldr~n; average attendance, 50; value £300, net £200, including 40 acres of glebe, with ~flss Martha Plowman, mIstress residence, in the gift of Lieut.-Ool. Samuel Lloyd Howard Carriers to: C.B. and David Howard esq. J.P.of Essex, and held since Blandford-Isaac White, wed. fri. & sat 1894 by the Rev. Thomas Williamson,Peile of St. Aidan's. Shaftesbury-Stephen Bealing, on sat Howard Lieut.-Col. Samuel Lloyd Davidge Eliza,beth (Mrs.), laundress Hare James, haulier C.R, D.L., J.P. The Cottage Davidge John, barm dealer Hare Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Peile Rev. Tbos. Williamson, Rectory Dean Samuel, farmer, North farm Joyner Gideon, blaoksmith COMMERCIAL. Fancy Ann (Mrs.), dress maker Taylor Geo. &:, Edwin,frmrs.South frm Bealing Stephen, farmer & carrier Fry Stephen, shopkeeper & woodman Taylor David, dairyman Burrow Wm. farmer, Manor farm Gifford Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Tuffin Henry, shoe maker Butt Meshach & Geo. farmrs.Gore frm Gifford William,gamekeeper to Lieut.- WhiteI:::aac, farmer &; carrier Davidge David, haulier Col. Lloyd HO'W!1rd Wilkins George, shoe maker DOR~ET 2*

20 ASKERSWELL DORSETSHIRE. [ KELLY'S at Puddleto'wn & North William, head gardener to A. C. de Lafontaine esq ASKERSWELL is a small village and parish, on the residence, in the gift of H. S. Bower esq. and held since Asker brook and near the road from Bridport to Dor- 1894 by the Rev. Henry Percival Bryan, Theo.As·soc.K.C.L. chester, 4 miles east from Bridport terminal station on There is no manor. The principal landowners are H. S. the branch of the Great Western railway, in the Western Bower esq. of Fontmen Parva, Miss Taunton, of Ashley, division of the county, union, petty sessional division and Winchester, and Henry Helyer esq. of Hardington Mandecounty court district of Bridport, hundred of Eggerton, ville, near Yeovil. The SQil is chalk and sand; subsoil, lI.'ural deanery of Bridport (Bridport portion), arch- rock. The chief crops are wheat and barley, with some deaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The church land in pasture. The area is 1,724 acres; rateable value, of St. Michael is a stone edifice in the Perpendicular £1,663; the parish contained 230 inhabitants in 1891. @tyle, and consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, south Higher Eggardon, where there are the remains of an porch, embattled weste,rn tower with pinnacles, contain- extensive Roman encompment, and Loders Land were ing 5 bells: one was added in 1747, two were re-cast in transferred' to this parish from Litton Cheney by Local 1886: with the exception of the tower the whole structure Government Board Order, in 1884. was rebuilt in 1858, architecturally in accordance with Parish Clerk, Mark White. the ancient handsome tower: the east window is small Post Office.-Mark White, sub-postmaster. Letters reand is said to Be an adaptation from a window in West- ceived throug-h Bridport at 10.20 a.m.; dispatched at minster Aboey: upon the underside of the beam in the 4.45 pom. Bridport is the nearest money order &; tower which supports the belfry floor a crozier and a beadroll are sculptured: the font is Norman and ancient: telegraph office there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year Connty Police Station, John Shield, sergeant 1558. The living is a rectQry, average tithe rent-charge National Scliool, built in 1871, for 50 children; average £128, net yearly value £101, with 23 acres of glebe and attendance, 40; Mrs. Newman. mistress Eryan Rev. Henry Percival, Theo. Ohilcott Wilfred Harold, farmer, Marsh Leah (Mrs.), farmer, Court pI .Assoc. K.OoL. Rectory Hembury Samway Benjamin, baker Gurtis Fras.Geo.miller (water) &; frmr White Mark, shopkeeper &; parish COMMERCIAL. Foolrs George, road contractor clerk, Post office Eishop John, farmer House William George, baker Williams WaIter, Three Horse Shoes -Cousins Wm. farmer, South Eggardon Marsh Oharles, dairyman P.H. &; blacksmith ATHELHAMPTON (or .Admiston) is a parish on restored the house as nearly as possible on the original the river Trent, or Piddle, nearly 6 miles north-east lines; there are numerous stained windows displaying the from Dorchester station, on the London and South arms of theMartin family, whGresided here throug-h eight Western and Great Westeru railways, in the Southern generations, and some good stone carving, including the ~ivision of the county, hundred of Puddletown, Dorche~ Martin arms; the old oak staircase is also in good ter petty sessional division, union and county court preservation, and the house now forms one of the most ,district, rural deanery of Whitchurch (Bere Regis por- interest.ing Tudor mansions in the county; the grounds tion), archdeaconry o~ Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. consist of 5 acres, tastefully laid out, and containing 'The church of St. John is a Gothic structure, built in three-walled gardens with terraces. Alfred C. de La'- 1862 on a site presented by J. Wadham Floyer esg. and fontaine eoq. is lord of the ma!lor, who, with W. E. -consists of a chancel, nave and north porch, and has Brymer esq. James Crane esq. and E. L. Kindersley esq. western turret with 2 bells; the east window and those are the principal landowners. The soil is light loam and on each side of the chancel are stained; the original excellent water meadows; subsoil, gravel on chalk. The church was situated near the hall, and was formerly a chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is chapel of ease to Burleston: there are 120 sittings. The 469 acres; rateable value, £576; the population in 1891 registers date from the beginning of the present century. was 71. The living is a rectory with that of Burleston annexed, Parish Clerk, Thomas Drake. joint yearly gross value of commuted tithe ['226, average £168, net income £138, in the gift of .Alfred C. de Letters from Dorchester through Puddletown, which is Lafontaine esq. and held since 1881 by the Rev. John the nearest money order &; telegraph office; arrive at Woolley, of St. Bees, who resides at Burleston. 6.30 a.m. Wall Box cleared at 6.25 p.m. week days; .Athelhampton Hall, one of the most ancient seats in the sundays at 10·40 a.m county, is the residence of Alfred C. de Lafontaine esq. The children attend the schools who purchased the property in 1890 and has completely Tolpuddle Lafont'aine Alfred C. de, Athelhamp- Hand Hy. farmer, South Admiston ton hall Whittle James, farmer Lock John :BATCOMBE is a parish and a small straggling village the Earl of Sandwich, and held by the Rev. Frederick '2~ miles east from Evershot station on the Weymouth Phipps B.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge, who rebranch of the Great Western railway, about 12 north. sides at Frome Vauchurch. The Earl of Sandwich is west from DOl'chester and 4 north-west from Cerne lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil .Abbas, in the Western division of the county, hundred and subsoil are chalk and clay. The land is mostly in .()f Yetminster, Cerne union and petty sessional division, pasture. The area is 1,109 acres, inclusive of 33 acres Dorchester county court district, rural deanery o! of glebe; rateable value £914; the population in 1891 'Shaftesbury (Sherborne portion), archdeaconry of Dorset was 123. and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. Mary is P;tIish Clerk, John Chubb. a small Gothic structure of stone, restored in 1864, and Wall Letter Box cleared at 4.30 p.m consisting of chancel and nave, liorth porch, with em· Letters through Dorchester; arrive at 9.10 aom. The battled western tower with pinnacles and containing 2 nearest money order office is at Evershot; &; telegraph bells: there are 130 sittings. The register dates from office at Evershot station the year 1813. The living is a rectory, annexed to that National School (mixed), with residence for mistress, of Frome Vauchurch; average tithe rent charge £223, built in 1873, for 50 children; average attendance, 25; joint gross yearly value [,320, net £260, in the gift of Miss Kate Minterne, mistress COMMERCIAL. Crocker Frederick, farmer Hedges Alfred, farmer Bridge Thomas, farmer Crocker Isa'hella, (Mrs.), farmer Hodges WaIter, farmer Chubb John J. basket maker Everett Geor'ge, farmer Wightmoo Alfred, carpenter Crabb James, New inn Foot Ro1>ert, shopke'eper 'bEAMINSTER is 1\ market and union town and bends of his cathedral: it is pleasantly seated in a fertile parish. 18 miles west-by-north from Dorcheste.r, 6 north and beautiful valley, through which runs the river Brit, from Bridport terminllJl ~tation on 0. branch of the Great which issues from several springs about one mile north Western railway, 6 south from Crewkerne S'tation on the from the town and flows into the English Channel at London and South Western railway, and 133 by road Bridport harbour. .At East Axe Knoll, one of the highest from London, in the Western division of tIll' county, hills in this county, two rivers take their source-the Axe petty sessional division and connty court district of and the Brit. The town is paved and is lig-hted with gas Bridport, hundred of Beaminster Forum, rural deanery by a company and supplied with water from wells and of Bridport (Beaminster portion), archdeaconry of Dor- springs. There are many good residences, and the set and diocese of Salisbury. The town is of considerable modern appearance of the town may be attributed to antiquity: in "Domesday Book:' it is classed amongst the destrnction of the old town by fire, which took place lands belonl?ing- to the Bishopric of Saro.m: it was given in the civil wars of Charles I. In the parish register it in 10g1 to Bishop Osmund to augment two of the prs- states that-CC On the 14th of April, 1644, it was all

DIRECTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. BEAMI:r\STER. 21 consumed by a terrible fire, except the East streete and (with 200 sittings) and Congregationalists (with 300 part of the Church streete, Prince Maurice and his army sittings). Petty sessions for the Bridport petty sessional lying then in the towne;" it was rebuilt with the assist. division are held here at the Police station every aUerance of Parliament, but again, with the Market house, nate month on a Monday at II a.m. alternately with destroyed by the fire of June 28th, 1684; and again on Bridport and Thorncombe; for list of magistrates and the 31st of March, !Jal, at about 5 a.m. a fire broke out places in the division see Bridport. The Market house in the back premises of the King's Arms inn, in the and other buildings were bought from the Ecclesiastical Market place, destroying in a few hours the whole of Commissioners by a local committee and pulled down in the houses (two only excepted) on the west side of the 1886, leaving the market place clear. The markets are street leading to the church, also the houses in Church held on Thursday for butchers' meat and provisions; and street and Little street. In 1849 Beaminster was separ- the fair on September the 19th annually, for cattle. ated from the mother-parish of Netherbury, to which it I Adjacent to the churchyard is an almshouse, built and was formerly subject, and made a separate vicarage. I endowed by Sir John Strode, for the support of six poor The church of the Virgin Mary is a large handsome stone I people; the inmates are chosen by Admiral Fitz Roy CoB. building, standing on an eminence on the southern side Ithe representative of the donor. There ar~ other chariof the town: it is principally of PerpendiCUlar character, ties of the annual value of £85, derived from land and of about the end of the fifteenth century, consisting of a IConsols. This town was the native place of Thomas chancel, nave of 5 bays, aisles, north porch and em- i Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, born 1635, consecrated bishop battled western tower nearly IOO feet high, which con- 1684. Parnham House, the seat of Vice-Admiral Robert tains a clock and a peal of 8 bells, with chimes, which O'Brien Fitz Roy C.B. is a large old structure: the hall play every three hours: the bells were rehung at con- is a noble room, having in its windows and on its walls siderable expense in 1887: the tower is, well proportioned all the marriages> of the family, and a. pane of stained and enriched with figures representing the Virgin Mary, glass having the arms of Strode inscribed" John Strode, the Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension: it was 1449 :" in the withdra:wing room is an original portrait anciently ornamented with pinnacles, but these having of Thomas Lord Cromwell, vicar-general of Henry VIII. been entirely destroyed, the tower in 1878 was restored and another of Gregory Lord Cromwell, his son: in the and the pinnacles replaced at a cost of £·1,100; the aisles gallery are various portraits of the Strodes, some of were newly roofed in 1889 at a cost of £4°0: there are which are of the age of Queen Elizabeth: the capiml two monuments of the Strode family, several mural tab- mansion house was rebuilt and enlarged by Robert Strode lets, one brass and fine memorial stained windows, the I esq. in the ~eign of Henry VIII.; ~anyo Qf the chambers principal being to Sir Henry Oglander, Sir William are hung WIth tapestry: on the extmctlOn of the Strode Oglander, Colonel Cox and Edward Fox esq.: in re- family (to whom it originally belonged) by the death of moving one of the monuments some years ago the Thomas Strode esq. the last of that name, the estate ancient steps and doorway to the rood-loft were exposed: devolved on the late Sir John Oglander bart. of Nunthe church has sittings for 750. The parish register well, in the Isle of Wight, and since then it has passed dates from the year 1684, the previous one having been to the present owner. 'The Manor House is the seat of destroyed by the fire of that year. The living is a Mrs. Cox. John Rnssell Cox esq. JoP. is lord of the vicarage, average tithe rent charge £247. gross yearly manor of Beaminster Prima and Secunda. The principal value £314, net £239, with residence, in the gift of the ,landowIlers are Vice-Admiral Fitz Roy CoB. John Russell Bishop of Salisbury, and held since 1890 by the Rev. Cox esq. Miss Frances Cox, the Ecclesiastical CommisArthur AlIen Leonard M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford. sioners, Capt. Thomas Russell, Peter Meech esq. William Holy Trinity chapel of ease, at the north-western ex- James Daniel esq. and Henry Francis Compton esq. ilremity of the town, IS a building of stone in the Early The area is 4,916 acres; rateable value £IO,880; the English style, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays. population in 1891 was 1,915. aisles, south porch and bell turret at the intersection of Langdon is a tithing I! miles north-east; Newtown. chancel and nave, containing onet bell: the east and west I half It mile north; and Buckham, 2 miles north-west, windows are stained: consecrated and opened in 1851: ' are hamlets. it has 400 sittings. There are chapels for Wesleyans Parish Clerk, William B. Newman. OFFICI.!.I. ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS kc. Post, M. O. & 'f. 0., S. R, Express Delivery & Insurance & Annuity Office (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. Dorset added).-Jeremiah Peter Stembridge, postmaster Delivery.-London & all parts of England & foreign countries, by letter carriers & to callers; 7 aom.; London &; all parts of England & foreign countries (day mail), by letter carriers' & to callers, 5.30 p.m. Dispatch.-Bridport, Yeovil, Vmdon &:, foreign countries, 5055 aom.; Crewkerne, Taunton, Rnst;ll, Dath & 'Vest of England, 7 p.m. (extra stamp, 705 pom.); London, Bridport, Dorchester, 'Veymouth, North of England, Ireland, Scotland & foraign countries, 6045 p.m. (extra stamp, 6.50 p.m) Money orders are granted &:, paid from 9 a.m. to 6 pom. ; saturdays, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Postal u:"ders are issued from 7 a.m. to 8 pomo; paid from 9 aom. to 8 p.m. This office is on week days open to the public for ordinary business from 7 a.m. till 8 p.m.; ff,r telegraph bnsiness from 8 a.m. till 8 p.m.; on snndays, open from 8 till IO a.m. Letters can he registered up to IS minutes before the box closes Public Establishments. County Police Station, George Brooks, superintendent, 4 sergeants & 21 constables Beaminster Union. Board day, every alternate thursday at the workhouse, at II a.m. Beaminster is the head of a union of 26 parishes, comprising Beaminster, Bettiscombe, Broadwindsor, Burstock, Oheddington, Chelborough (East), Cheloorough (West), Corscombe, Evershot, Halstock, Hooke, Mapperton, Marshwood, Melbury Osmond, Melbul"Y Sampford, Mosterton, Netherbury, Perrott (South), Pil!"don, Poorstock, Poorton (North), Rampisham, Stoke Abhott & Wraxall & Misterton &; Seaborough in Somei:'!"E'toThe area of the union is 54,638 acres, i-a~aable ,"alue in 1894 £84,696. The population in 1891 was 10,366 Clerk to Guardians & Assessment Committee, llobert Leigh, Beaminster . Treasurer, Robert Williams, jun. Old Bank, DOI'chester Collectors to tlie Guardians, Relieving & Vaccination Officers, Beaminster district, Jonathan Pine, Corscombe; Netherbury district, Nathaniel Meech, Broadwindsor Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Beaminster district, 'Villiam James Daniel. Beaminster; Evershot district, Charle3 Chapman Skardon, Evershot; Marsh~ wood & Netherbury districts, .John Staines Webb, Church street, Beaminster; Misterton district, Cbarles Edward Alford, Crewkerne Superintendent Registrar, Robert Leigh, Bl·aminster Registrars of Births &, Deaths, Beaminst~r sub-district, Joseph Keech, St. Mary street, Beaminster; deputy, OEver Mullins Beament, Ea·st street, Beaminster; Ever"hot sub-district, Jonathan Pine. Corscombe; deputy, Henry Conway, Evershot; Ketherbury subdi!"trict, Nathaniel Meech, Rroadwilldsor Registrar of Marri.1ges, OliveI"' Mullins neament, East st. Bf.aminster; deputy,Albt.Hann,Hogshill st.Beaminster Workhouse i!l one mile from the town, in the adjoining parish of Stoke Abbott; it is capable of holding 230 inmates; Ambrose Crosland, master; Rev. William Gildea, chaplain; John Staines Webb, medical officer; Mrs. Crosland, matron School Attendance Committee. Meetg at Board room, Workhouse, as often as business requires. Clerk, Robert Leigh Attendance &; Inquiry Officers. J. Pine, Corscombe &; Randolph Meech, Broadwindsor Rural District Council. Meets at Board room,Workhouse, every month at II aom. Clerk, Robert Leigh Treasurer, Robert Williams, jun. Old Bank, Dorchester ~iedical Officer of Health, John Staines Webb. Church st Surveyor &, Sanitary Inspector, Chas. Ilann,Prout brdgo

22 BEAMINSTER. DORSETSHIRE. [ KELLY'S PRIVA.TE RESIDENTS. Public Officers. Asses'sor &; Collector of Queen's Taxes, Clenham Certifying Factory Surgeon, John St·aines Webb Clerk to the Commissioners of Taxes, Hobert L£:igh Surveyor of Roads, Richard Rendall, Stoke Ahbott Assistant Overseer &; Collector of Poor Rates, Alhert Hann, East street Places of worship, with times of services. Church of the Virgin Mary, Rev. Arthur Allen Le(lnard l\f.A.vicar; Rev.BasilWyatt Bradford B.A.curate; holy communion at 8 a.m.; morning prayer, II a.m.; afternoon ,service, 3 p.m.; evening serviee, 6.30 p.m. ; mono tues. thurs. & sat. morning prayer in SUITLml:'r, 7.30 a.m.; morning prayer in winter, 10 a.m.: wett. &; fri. morning prayer at II a.m.; Raints' days, relebration 8 a.m.; morning prayer at 1I a.m.; e\'ening service at 6 p.m. summer &; 4.30 p.m. winter; sermon every friday evening at 7.30 Chapel of the Holy Trinity; morning prayer at II a.m Congregational, Rev. WIlliam .Akehurst Pevan; II a.m. &; 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m Wesleyan; II a.m. &; 6.30 p.m Schools. 'William Macey, The Beaminster &: Netherbury school, f(,unded by Mrs. 'rucker in 1684, for 20 pool' boys of the parish. has been amalgamated with the Nethorhnry Grammar school, which has been lemoved here, as 8 day & boarding school for boys &. ca:led the B£'aminster &; Netherbury Grammar school: the nllmbe:' of s(;h(·l~rs is now about 25 &; the endowme~t amounts to [,280 yearly; the Rev. Samuel Hood. f-1t~pr of Lords Hood &; Bridport, was master of this !l.::hool i'l 171~. This school is temporarily closed to amass fundi National (girls), built in 1870, for 130 children; 8yeruge attendance, 6o; Miss Mary Freeman, miilt,ress Boys' Elementary, built in 1875, for 130 children; average attendance, 70; William Oxley, mast&r Infant, built in 1870, for ISO children; average at1endancel 100; Miss Mary 'Wills, mistress Conveyance to Crewkerne.-Ommbus leaves BrieIport ab 8.40 a.m. &; Beaminster at 9.40 1:\.'.11. for Crewkorne daily &; starts from Crewkerne nt 12.40 p.m &; Beaminster at I.45p.m.&; arrives at Bridport about 2.4~p.m Carrier to Bridport.-Alfred Woodbury. daily at 9.45 Agent for Goods &; Parcels for the Great Western Railway Company, William Andress &; Son Elliott William, Myrtle cottage Leonard Rev. Arthur AlIen :M.A. Fitz Roy Vice-Admiral Robert O'Brien Vicarage And.rewJS James C.R Parnham house Lloyd Mrs. Park cottage Bevan Rev. William AkC'hurst (Con- Fll'ssell In. Hounsell, Dannemora cot Macey Mrs. Woodswater house gregational), Fleet street Gardner Mrs OliveI' Mis'S, BartQn end Bradford Rev. Basil Wyatt RA. Groves Major John, Bridge hQuse OliveI' Mrs. Fleet street (curate) Hardca'Stle Jsph. AIfd. J.P. Woodlands Pinney Geo. Fredk. J.P. Brooklands Burnsid-e M1'Is Hine' Miss, White Hart street RUlssell Capt. Thomas J.P. Beryth cox Mrs. Manor house Keddle The l\oIisses, The Elms SherriDig' Henry James, Ohurch skeet Cox Miss KitsOIlJ Fras. Pa1'lsQns, Prout bridge Slade Edwin Cox Tom, !'Tout bridge Kitson John Lane, ElliStcot Toleman Mrs. Hamilton lodge Daniel Thoms·s Palmer, Bank hill Lawrence Charles, Fleet street Trl>tman. Fiennes Damel William Jnmes, White Hart st Leigh Robert, The Yews COMMERCIAL. AlIen Edwin, insurance agent, White Hart strc.1t Allen William, hair dresser, Fore place AndressWilliam &; Son,cooper &; basket ma.White Hart rl Andrews IIerbert, photographer, Fleet street Andrews James, manager of the Dorsetshire Bank A88embly RQOm8, licensed for theatricals, Red Lion P.H Barrett Augusta (Miss), photographer, Fleet street Beament Oliver Mullins, carpenter &; deputy registrar of births &; deaths &; registrar of lUarria~e~, East st Beaminster Gas &; Coke Co. (William J3ugler Newman, manager; E. AlIen, sec) Bellamy John, gardener to Mrs. CO.1: Boon Ann (Mrs.), laundress Boon Isaac, haulier Boon John, butcher &; beer retailer, I"leeb ~treet Bridle George, cooper, &1 Eight :Qells inn, Chureh street Brook House Ladles' School (principal,Mi:>s Wair; ; extensive grounds &; tennis lawn Brooka Goorge, supt. of police &; inspector cattle disease &; food &; drugs Brooks Josiah, tailor, Church street Bugler William Henry &; George, saw mills &; timber merchants, North street Bugler Elizabetli M. (:\:l:rs.), dress mat lVbHd Hart 8t Bugler John Henry, butcher, Church s~reetBugler Robert, farmer, Knowle farm Bugler Thomas, timber haulier, East str~ot Bugler William, baker, Church street Bugler William (Mrs.), boot &; shoe maker, Church st Bugler William Henry, Red Lion P.ll. &. impl'lJDenb &; general agent Burt Emmanuel, beer retailer, Denmim;~er hottum Caddey Hannah (Mrs.), farmer, Chapel marsh Chambers Benjamin B. builder, Fleet strp.et Chambers Samuel .lames. builder, groenhr.uses, melon frames, garden lights &c. ~ol'th stre('1; Chard Thomas Norman, boot maker, White Hart street Clare Charles, fuI'Illiture dealer, :Fleet st.reet Cook Samuel, farmer, Cherry Cottage farm Coombs Hcrbert S. baker .~ ('unfm:tioner, East ~treet Coombs William, shopkeeper, East street Cox Elizabeth (Miss), dress maker &; nulliner Cox John Paul, farmer, Stonecombe farm Cox Samuel, auction·~er, surveyor &; estate agent, Hogshill street Cox T. manager of the Wilts & Dorset Bank Cox WaIter Henry, butcher &; game dealer, ~(jrth street Crocker Henry, draper, Fore place Crossman Richd.gardener to Vice-Adm.R. O.Fitz Rey C.B Dnwbney Arthur, farmer, Northfield farm Daniel Thomas Palmer M.R.C.S.Engl., L.S.A. surgeon. et !redical officer &; public vaccinator to the Beaminster district of the union of Beaminster, Bank hill Denner James, boot &; shoe maker, Shadrack street Dorsetshire Bank (branch) (R &; R. Williams, Thorntcn Sykes &; Co.) (James Andrews, managel'j; open daily from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; draw on Williams Deacon &; Co. London Dunell J. &; B. farmers, Buckham farm Dunn Geol'ge, farmer, Barrow fipld Dunn John Barratt, leatner sel!f)r, White Hart street Ebdon Charles, coal dealer, :Kewtuwn }<'rampton Giles, butcher, l~ore place Frampton Thomas, far:ner, 'Yhi:,c·)Illbe farm Freemasons' Manor Lodge, Xo. q67, meeting bouse, White Hart hotel Froome BenJamln. wholesale butcher &; exporter of live k dead stock, White Harb strep,t Galpin Ephraim, farmer Garland Thomas R. Swan P.H. Fleeb streeb Gibbs Thomas, boot &; shoo maker, Fore place Gibbs William John, confectioner, I,'rout Bridge GilLingham Henry, farmer, Axno]er Groves William, Crown P.H. North street Guppy ChTistabel (Miss), dre5s maker, Church street Guy Thomas (')Irs.), farmer, Storridge farm Hallett Amy (Miss), ladies' school, Wilite Hart street Hallet,t Thirza (~frs.), fancy reposit'Ory, White Hart st Hann Charles &. Albert, builders, contractors, stone masons &; lime merchants, Prout bridge Hann Albel't, a's5istant overseer &; deputy registrar of marriages, East street Hann Charles, surveyor &; sanitary inspector of nuisances to rural district council, Prout bridge Hawker Benjamin, timber haulier, Fleet street Hill George, shopkeeper, NO'l'th street Hine &; Son, chemists, Fore place Hoare James (M~s.), slhopkeeper, Church street Hooper Edwin, beer retailer &; timber haulier Hull JQhn, blacksmith, Church street Hunt John, carriage, wagon &; implement wks. South st James Wil~~am, dairyman, Langdon &; Slhatcombe "ames Wllllam Henry, saddler, harness maker &; boot stores, Fore place . KeC'Ch Joseph &; Son, monumental masons &; registrars of births &; deaths, Hogshill street Kitson &; Tl'()hman, SQlicitOT'S, Ea5t street K'itlron Francis Pa·rsoIlls F.R. C.S.Eng., L.R. C.P.Lond. (firm, Webb &; KitSQn), surgeon &; physician, Prout bdg Kitson John Lane (firm, Kitson &; Trotman), solicitor & commissioneor to administer oaths, &; steward of the manors

DIREC~ORy.J DORS~TSHIRE. BELCH.ALWELL. 23 Lawrence A.lfred Cox, grocer &; wa dealer, Fore place Lawrence Oharles, gelder, Fleet street Legg E. Gapper, farmer, Ooombe down Leigh Robert, solicitor, commil;sioner fvr oaths, clerk to the rural distTict council, & clerk to the guardians &. aJssessment & 800001 at.tendance committees of Bea~ mins-te!" union, clerk to Governors of tfue Beaminster & Netihel'bury Grammar School foundation, to the boy's public elementary school, & to the trustees of the iNetherbury charitlies, asls·istant magistrates' clerk, &, superintendent registrar, & land sbeward to ViceAdmiral FitzRoy C.B Legge WilIlam, boot &; shoe maker, Fleet street Loxton Oharles, grocer, Whit.e Hart street :Macey Thomas, hair dres's'er & tobacconist, White Hart st :Marsih 'Oharity (Mrs.), stay make«', North ~treet Maunder Harry, watch maker, White Hart 'street Meech David (Mrs.), farmer, Hilts farm :Meech John Hemy, Bell & Crown P.H. East stre,et Moor Stephen, White Hart hotel Morey John !Marsh, agricultural eng1ine prop. East rd. oot Newman Jdhn Henry, farmer, 'Vellwood farm Newman Joseph T. beer re:taile,r, Wlhite Hart street Newman William Bugler, manager of gas wOTks & ironmonger, St. Mary st'1'eet Oliver Emma (Miss), fancy-repository, White Hart street Oxley William, plain & fancy stationer, toy dea:er, bookseller & printer Pile William Robert, iaTmer, Langdon & S'hatcombe frms Pine. Alfred Vie, grooer, &; agent for W. & A. Gilbey, Limited, wine & spirit merchants, Fleet street Podger Charles, farmer & miller (water), Buckham mil: Poole Charles, beer retailer, St. 11ary shree't, Read George John, tailor, ,"Vhite Hart street Reynolds ATtihur (exors. of), drapers & boot &; slhoe mercers, Hogshill street &; 1l'1ore place Rorerts George, bake«' & grocer, St. Mary street Rogells Jdhn, beer retailer, "'bite Hart stree-t Rogers Luke-, paperhanger, 'White Hart street Savage Georg-e Barter, GreJ1hound P.H. Fore place Sherrlng Wllllam Lane, painter, decorator, &; sign writer, Church street Shiner \lames & Son, cart'iage builders & timber merchantlS, East street Slade Edwin, estlllte a.gent, White Hart street Stembridge Je-remiah Peter, trap proprietor, Post office SwaffieId Frederick, shopkeeper, St. Mary s-treet Swaffie'ld John, farmer, High'Br Meerhay Swatridge Richard, corn factor, Fore place Sydenham Jl3me.s, farmer, Sandhurst house Symes Goorge, beer retailer, North street Tett WiIIiam, fa.rmer, Newtown Toleman A. .& E. betlhangers, ironmongers, lock" smiths, painters & glaziers, plumbers & tinplate wrkrs. &; agricultural implement agents>, Fore place Toleman Francis, farmer, Mapperton :Marsh farm Travers Robert &; Son, coal merchantSt, Fleet street Tr.a,vers El1en (Miss), milliner, Fleet street Trotman FieIIDes (firm, Kit'son & Trotman), solicitor &; deputy ,steward of the manors, East street Trump Thomas, chimney sweeper, Fleet street Tuck WilIiam, thatcher Wakeley John Henry, farmer, Lower Meerhay War.ren Thomas Slade, saddler & harness ma. Fore pI Wea,ver William & Son, blacksmiths, White Hart streell Weaver WiIIiam Henry, New inn, White Hart street Webb &, Kitson, surgeons & physicians Webb John Staines M.R.C.S.Eng. (firm, Webb & Kit. son), surgeon, medical officer of health to the rural district couDlcil, medicaJ. officer & public vaccinator to the :M:iarshwood &; Netherbury districts of the union of Be.aminster & the union house, the Dorset constabulary, Odd1ielIows & Foresters, &; certifying surgelOn under the :Factory Acts, Church street Whedon Mary (Miss), dress maker Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited (branch) (T. Cox, manager); draw on London &; Westminster Bank Lim. London E C 'Vinter Frederick, baker &; confectioner, East street Winter John, jun. boot maker, North street Woodbury Alfred, carrier, East street 'Voodbury Samuel, farmer, Barrowfield farm Woolmington John Henry, fairmer, East Axnoller farm l\foger Gell. Robt. dairyman,Trill frm . Parlrid'g'e Peter, farmerr & landowner Patch WiIIiam, farmer BEER HACKETT with XNIGHTON. BEER HACKE'IlT is a parislh, on a small stream which age tithe rent-charge £1I7, gross yearly value [,177, net flow.s into the Yeo, I mile north from Yetminster station, £155, including 38 acres of g1e1be, an\:i held since 1891 by on the "\Veymoutlh. branch of the Great Western railway, the Rev. "\Ylilfrid Roxby B.A. of Emmanuel college, Cam.. < 4 miles south-west from She~borne and 5 south-ea,st from bridge, who is 3o:so reooor of, and resides at, Thornford. Yeovil, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, The principa.llandowner is John Kenelm Digby WiIlJgfi.eld- . union and petty sessional division of Sherborne, Yeovil Digby esq. M.P., J.P. who is lord of the manor as succounty court district, rural deanery of Shaft·esbury (Sher- cessor /)of the abbots of 'Sherborue; he is owner of the borne porti'On), arc'hdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of rectorial titihes, £6 yearly from tithes. The soil is clay; Salis>bury. The church of St. Michael is a stone bUJild- subsoil, rock. The chief crops are pasture; the area. is ing of bhe Early English style, consisting of chanoel, 918 acres; rateahle value, £1,472; the population in 1891 nave and south porch, with a western tower, containing including the t~thing of Knlighton, I mile south-ea-st, 4- be:ls: it was rebuilt in 18,82, with the exception of the was 85. . tower, at a cost of about £I,roO, raised by sllJbscription: Parish Clerk, John Whitty. the east window is s,tained and is a memorial to the Rev. mhe chi:dren lIittend the school a<t 'rh'ornford Frank Newington RA. vicar 01 Osmington, who died Letters ,through. ISherborne. Yetminster is the nearesll October ID, 1877: bhere are 100 sittin~s. The register money order office; &; telegTaph office lilt Yetminstel' dateit from the yeM' 1549. The living is a rectory, aver- station Farr Jane' &; Emma (Misses), farmers, HelIier Frederick, Olaypits Knight'on Knight Alban, farmer, Knighton Hal1'vey John, farmer, Knighton }Iasters Frederick, farmer BELCHALWELL is a parish and small village, 2~ of Ibbe:r.ton, average tithe rent-dharge- £341, joint gross miles south-west from Shillingtstone statlion on the Mid- yearly value £345, net £330, with residence, in the gill; land and South Westeorn Junction railw3y, 8 north-west of Lieut.-Gen. A. H. L. Fox-Piut-Bivers, and held since from Bland'foxd and 4 south from St'llrminster Newton, 18-82 by the Rev. Joseph August-us Wix B.A. of Magdain the Northern diivision of ilie county, hundred. of Crau- lene College, Oambridge, who 1"esidels at Ibbert>Qn. Tha borne, petty sessional division a,nd union of Sturminster Wesleyans have a, cfrlapel here. Lieut.-Gen. A. H. L. Newton, Blandford county court disbrict, rural deanery ·Fox-Pitt-Rive1'ls, who is lord. of the manor, and Charles of Wihi.lJchurch (iMJiIton poTtion), archdeaconry of Dorset Prideaux-B<rune esq. are the chief landowners. The soil and dliocese of ,saIisJbury. This place has, under the is chie'fly clay. 'I1he Ifc100 is chiefly pasture. The area is operation of the Divided Parishes Act, been divided, for 1,308 acres; rateable value is included with that of Okacivil purposes only, be,tween the parishes of Okeford ford Fitzpaline and' Fifehead Neville. Fit~paline and Fifehead: Neville. The church (not dedi- Fifehead St. Quinbin (or Lower Fifehead) is a hamlet, cated) is a platin 'building- of stone, consisting- of chancel, I~ miles west-by-north on the river Divelish. Bell Hill nave of three bays, north aisle, and has a fine Korman is a. hig>h hilI t·o Hhe south. south porch and a square embattled tower on the sout,b ,sexton, Jeremiah Spencer. side, containing one bell: it was r.eseahed! in 1872, :md Wall Letter Box, cleared at 5.<::5. p.m. Letters from restored recently by tlhe reotOT and friends: it has 100 BIMldlford, arrive at 7.30 a.m. The nearest money order sittings. With tlle exception of a few fragments, the office is at OkeflOrd Fitzpa.ine; ShiJ.lingstone is the e3rly regtisters were de5troyed by fire; the present one nearest telegrnph office dates from 1842. The living is a rectory, united to th3Jt Children attend school a.t Ibberton Andrews- Ja.~. John, farmer, Erls frm }feaden George, butcher Rose George, beer retailer Andrews WiIIiam, farmer, Darknell ~Ieaden Richard (Ml'Is.), farmer Ross WilIiam, farmer, Lower Fifehead Bracher Hy. Geo.shopkpr.& basket ma Miller Jasper, farmer Sherry Charle's James, dairyman, Foot Ge>Orge, farmer, Lower Fifehead Roberts Robert, farmer, Brooks farm Lower Fifehead Foot Herbert, farmeT, Low. Fifehearl Raberts Tom, dairyman Topp Herbert, farmer

24 BERE REGIS. DORSETSHIRE. [KELLYS BERE REGIS (or Beer Regis), which gives name to th& hundred, is a parish and wa,s formerly a market town, 6! miles north-west from "Vareham sta't.ion on the South Wesrern railway, 8 soutfu-west from Blandford on tlhe Somerseot and Dorset line and II north-east from Dorchester, in the Ea.stern dirision of the county, petty sessional divisioo of Wimborne, ulll10n of Wareham and Purbeck, county coW't district of 1VarehMn, rural deanery of Whitchurch (Bere Reg'lis portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of SaliSlbury. A small stream floWls througili the pariJsh. The clhurdh O'f St. John the Baptist is a. large flint and.tO'Ile structure, consistiing of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and square emlbattled western tower . with carved pinnacles and containing clock without dial, quarter chimes and 5 bells: the style is principally PerpendlicuO.ar and a littble NOTman in the interi()r: the roof o.f the nave, erected by Card'inal Morton in Henry VII.'s reign, is of richly-call'ved oak with fine hammer beam figures, popu:a.rly supposed to represent the Twelve Apostles, which have been repaired and ,repain.tOO in their OTiginal colours: the seats are of oak with beautifullycarved ends, copied from old ,patterns: the aisles and chancel are laid wlith tessela,tOO pa.vement,s, some copied from remains dug uv in ilie church and neighbourhood: the remalinder of Vhe floor was re-laid with oak blocks in 1894: .the windows a,re all stained, pr-esented by Mrs. ErIe Drax: hhere are two fine canQpied tom:bs in Purbeck marble of the Turbervi:Ie fami1y, the ancient lQI'ds of the manor, and one in ,the chancel to the memory of John Skerne, with a curio1lJS inscription; also a small brass by the north door, with a Latin epit,aph to Andrew Loup: tlhe church was thoroughly restored and resea'ted in 1875, from designs by the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. a.t a ooS't Qf ()ver £5,000, mis.ed by subscription, the ch~ef cOO1ltri'butor being Mrs. ,ErIe Dr~x: there are sittings for 428 persons. The regi.sters date from 1588, but the 18th centUJ'Y re'giste1'ls were burnt in a fire BIt the v~cal'age in 1788. The ,living i,s a vicara'ge, wi,th the chapelry of Winterlbourne Kingston annexed, avernge ti,the rent-charge £3°4, joont gross yearly value £4°9, net £162, with one aCTe of glebe and residence, in the giflt of the Master and FeJ~ows of Ba[iol Col1e~e, Oxford, and held !Since 1886 by the Rev. William Farrer M.A. of that college: this living, with that of Cllarminster, formerly constituted the" golden prebend" in the catlhedral church of Sal1i&bury. Tb,a rent-Clhaorge, in lieu of the great tithes, belongs to Mrs. ErIe Drax, J. O. MaIllse~-Pleydell esq. and Messrs' Spa,rkes, of Crewkerne. There,is an endowed Olngregatliona,l chapel and also two Wesleyan chape:ls, one on Ber,e heath. A Burial board of nine members was formed in Decemb€ll' 188o; the cemetery, which coveDS an area of one a'Cre, was laid out and indosed in 1881 aJt a cost of about £500, the land being the gift of J. ,C. Mansel-Pleyde!l:l. esq.; there iJs no mortuary chapel: it is now under the control of the Parish Council. There is a. charity, founded in the year 1719, by Thomas Williams esq. of Slhitterton" for the clothing and teaching of s-ix boys, and one by Jane Williams, of £10 yea,rly, amsing wom money invested in the funds, for two poor men and two women. Ber.e Regis is' sup. posed by Dr. StukeJey to have been the Ibernnum of tha Romans: it was ere'cted into a free borough by Edward I.: it has suffered severely by fire on three different occasions; first in 1634, again in 1788, and on the lash occasoion in 1817. A fair, formerly much resorted to, is he!ld here, on Woodibury hill, on the 21st and 22nd September. On Woodlbury H1ll which commands a fine view 0If the surrounding country, is a large camp; and there are several barrows in the vicinity. The kennels of the South Dorset HunD are situated about 1 mile north, on the road to Kingston. The build!ings were erected at the expense of Mrs. E. ErIe Drax ~n 1894: Aston Radcliffe esq. of York, is master of the hounds. The manor of Bere Regis ibe:ongs to Mrs. ErIe Drax, that of Shitter-ban to J. C. Mansel-P,leydell esq. and tibat of Hyde to Charles James Radclyffe esq. J.P. who resides at Hyde House; they are a~so the clhief landowners. The soil is partly chalk and, partly clay. The chief crops are wheat and, barley, Wlitlh some pas.tUl'e. The number af acres is 8,894; rateable value, £6,OII; the popula.tion in 1891 was 1,144. Pari.h Clerk, Riclhard Barnes. l'>st, M. O. &i T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery &i Annuity &i Insurance Office. Hoory CI:1'll.rles Jehkin1s, sub-postmas-ter. Letters received through Warelham; delivery commences at 7.15 a.m. &; 3 p.m. &i dispatched at 10.45 a.m. &i 6.15 p.m.; sundays 10.25 a.m Pillar Box, Bere Heath, cleared at 5 p.m. week d'llys only Public Officers. Medacal Officer &; Public Vaccinator, No. 4 District, iBlandford UIl!ion &i Bere Regi'S, Wareham &i Purbeck Union &; Medical Officer of Health, Wareham &; Purbeck Rural Sanitary District, Franciso Daniell Lys !Re~istrar of Births &; Deaths &i Relieving Officer for the Bere Regis district, William Bullen Assistant Overseer &; Collector of Rates &i Taxes, HeIlry Charles J enkins Schools. National (boys), Barrow IEIl, founded in 1719 by Thomas IWil1iams esq. &; placed under government limpection in 1870 &; enlarged about ,the same time, for 98 cibildren; average attendanoe, 44; partQy supported by Williams' charity; JQlb Bugby, master ShiJtterton, for 150 childTen; average a1tJtendance, '}2; Miss Amy Cozens, mistress; Miss Mary Ann Sk\llSe, infants' mistress Bere Heath (mixed), built in 1875, for 58 children; average .attend'ance, 36; Mis<s JaiDe D()bSlO'll, mlistoress Camien tQ Blandfard-Chas. Day, tues &i fri. leave Bere Regis 8 a.m Bournemouth Chas. Day, mono in summer monrtilis DOI'chester-Ohas. Day, wed. &; sat. leave Here Regis 8 a.m.; Toms, wed.; &; Joiner, from Mintern Ferry, wed. &i sat Poole Chas. Day, mono &; thurs. leave Bere Regis 8 a.m PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Besent Wm.Jn.farmer,Shitterton farm Jesty Hy. Robert, farmer, Roke farm Boswell Annie (Miss), dress maker, John-son In. Josias, brewer &i maltster North street Kellaway RichaJ'd Amos, shoeing &i Bullen Jameos, carpenter, Shitterton gen.eral smith Bullen William, registrar of births &i Lane Jane (Miss) &i Kiddle Elizabeth st deaths, vaccination officer &; reliev- (Mr,s.), grocers &i d.rapers ing officeJr for Bere Regis district, Lockyer James, thatcher, North st Shitte'l'ton Lys Francis Daniell, surgeon &; IX!edical Burt John, farmer &i miller (water), officer, No. 4 district, Blandford Chamberlain's mill (letters should union &; for the Bere Regis district, be ad.dTessed Bere hth. Wa~eham) Wa.re'ham &; Purbeck union, &i Cobb Cha,rles, farmer medical officer of health for the Cobb Daniel, farmer, Court farm Wareham &i PUl"beck rural sanit8l'y Constitutional C1U1b (Job Bugby, sec) authority Daws James, estate bailiff for M'rs. Lyts George, surgeon Ede Drax Mars'h Thomas, farmer, West street Day Oharles, farmer &; carrier Miller Geo. machine owner &i shpkpr Edmonds Fanny (Miss), dre.s>s maker, MiHer John, farmer &; machine owner COMMERCIAL. Rye hill Miller Thomas, farmer, Rye hill Applin Thomas Edward, butcher Edwards Wiiliam, tailor Moore Harriett (Miss), dress maker Arnold J'ames, Drax's Arms P.H George William, Royal Oak P.H Nutbeen Alfred, butcher Becking'ham WaIter, brick &; tile ma Henning Wm. Fredk. frmr. Doddings Nut'been James, dairyman, Stockiey Bedford William, watercres,s grower Hibbs Geo. grocer, draper &; prvsn.dlr Paulley William, farmer, Woodbury hI Bemister Samuel Edward (late Be- Hoare Henry, farmer, Lane end Ricketbs Frede-rick, boot &i shoe minster &; Mundell), grocer, iron- HoU'se Harvey, carpenter maker, North street monger, provision, corn &; flour House Robert, carpenter &i shopkpr Roe Alfred James, estate carpenter dea.ler &C. &; agent for W. &; A. Janes James, ha~nes'8 ma. &i farmer RllJSsell Edward, farmer, Rye hill Gilbey Limited. wine &; spirit mers J enkins Henry Oharles, grocer &; sta- Scutt Ellen E. (Miss),preparatory &ChI Havercomb James, pork butcher &; tioner, as-sistffint overseer &; collector Shave Edwin, w'heelwt. timber dlr. &e shopkeeper, West street of rates, Post office Sheppard Frank, mason Biles George, gamekeeper to C. J. Joiner Jame's, farmer &; carrier, Sheppard Fredk. watch &i clock ma Radclyffe esq )fintern ferry Sheppard GeQrge, buildeor Dibben Geoorg6 FalTeT Rev. William M.A. (vicar) Galpin Mrs. West st,re'et Guest Art'hur Edward J.P. We-st Howe Mr,s. West stree,t Jesty Charles, Nortb street Lys Fm,s. Daniell, White Lovlington Lys GeOTge, White Lovington Park AJtheTton Charles, Woodlands Potter Rev. Edwa:rd M. (Congrega· Honal), The Manse Radclyffe Charles Jame.s J.P. Hyde ho Radc1yffe William Frederick, Culeaze Spear MM. Rye hill SwitheThbank Rev. 8eth (Wesleyan)

DIRECTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. BLANDFORD. 25 Sheppard William Clench, builder Stickley Richard, farmer,Woodbury h11 TozeT He'llry, farmer Smith Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper Toms Ohar1ton, carrier, Rye hill Welch James, baker :BETTISCOM:BE is a parish, 8 miles south-west from from the year 1780. The living is a rectory, average Crewkerne station, and 5 miles east from Chard Road tithe rent-charge £96, gross yearly value £158, net station, both on the London and South Western railway, £130, with 55 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift 6 miles west from Beaminster, 8 east from Axminster, of A. B. Sheridan esq. and held since 1867 by the Rev. and 7 north-west from Bridport, in the Western division Frederick Williams M.A. of Jesus College, Oxford. A. of the county, hundred of Whitchurch Canonicorum, B. Sheridan esq. of Frampton Court., is lord of the manor liberty of Frampton, Beaminster union, Bridport petty and sole landowner. The soil is sandy and strong sub. sessional division and county court district, rural deanery soil. The land is principally used as dairy land. The of BridpQlrt (Lyme portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and area is 644 acres; rateable value, £737; in 1891 the diocese of Salisbury. The church off Saint Stephen was population was 59. rebuilt in the year 1862: it is a building of stone in Parish Clerk, Samuel Phillips. the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north aisle and south porch, and embattled Letters through Charmouth R.S.O. arrive at 9. 1 5 a.m. ; western tower containing one bell: there is a stained dispatched from Pillar Post at 3·55 p.m. on week east window, erected in 1864 by the late J. Tatcheil- days only. The nearest money order ii telegraph Builen esq. of Marshwood Manor; there are also three offices are at Broadwindsor & Thorncombe small stained windows erected to the Rev. James Wood- Parochial School, erected by the late R. B. Sheridan esq. ward Scott, formerly rector, and Mrs. Scott and their in 1863, for 60 children; average attendance, 44; Mrs. two children: there are 200 sittings. The register dates Annie Summerhays, mistress Williams Rev. Fredk. M.A. Rectory ICollier -, farmer, Revelshay farm ]Hedditch Robert, dairy Bugl~,r SlIiIDtfanner,Lower HQuse frm Forsey Jo. farmer, Bettiscombe farm Miller Abra'ham, farmer, Spence farm :BINCOM:BE is a parish, I! miles from Upwey sta-l Broadway. Large camps of observation were fonned on tion on the Great Western and London and South the hills in this parish in the reign of George Ill. and Western railways, 5 miles south from Dorchester and 5 two deserters, in trying to escape with details of the north from Weymouth, in the Southern division of the different camps, were captured in the. Channel, tried by county, petty sessional division of Dorchester, hundred of court martial and shot on Bincombe Down, and their Culliford Tree, liberty of Frampton, Weymouth union remains interred in the churchyard. The Master and and county court district, rural deanery of Dorchester Fello"Ns of Caius College, Cambridge, are lords of the (Weymouth portion), archdeaconryof Dorset and diocese manor and principal landowners. The soil is heavy of Salisbury. The church of the Holy Trinity is a small clay; subsoil, chalk and clay. The chief crops are building of stone in the Early English style, having grass, barley and oats. The area is 977 acres; rateable chancel, nave, south porch and square western tower value, £I,183; the population in 1891 was 202. containing 2 bells, and has a memorial window to the On the downs are many barrows, among which is late Mrs. Howship: there are 80 sittings. The register Cholbury. dates from the year 1658. The living is a rectory, Parish Clerk, James Palmer. average tithe rent-charge £357, with that of Eroadway Wall Letter Box, cleared at 8.50 a.m. & 6.30 p.m annexed, joint gross yearly value £437, net £3°5, with Letters received through Dorchester at 9 a.m. The 42 acres of glebe, in the gift of Caius College, Cam- nearest money order & telegraph office is at Upwey bridge, and held since 1890 by the Rev. David Long National School, built in 1873, for 40 children; average M.A. formerly fellow of that college, who resides at attendance, 28; Miss Amy Hand, mistress COMMERCIA.L. Haines Edw'ard, blacksmith PaSlhen Robed, carpenter Cake Hester (Mrs.), farmer Hounsell John, dari.ryman Virgin Frederick, dairy Foot Wm. Samson, farrmer, East frm Pashen John, farmer Watters Mary (Miss), beer retailer BLANDFOKD. BLANDFORD (or BLANDFORD-FORUM) is a municipal borough, parish, market and union town, head of a county court district and petty sessional division and station on the South-Western and Midland Companies' Somerset and Dorset joint line of railway, 16 miles north-east from Dorchester, IQ! north-west from Wimborne Minster, 14 north-west from Poole and 104 by road and I23! by rail from London, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Pimperne, rural deanery of Pimperne (Blandford portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The place derived its name from being situated near an ancient ford on the river Stour: it was nearly destroyed by fire in the year 1579, but was soon afterwards rebuilt: in 1644 it was plundered by the Parliamentary forces under Major Sydenham; in 1677 and in 1713 it again suffered from fire; and in 1731 was, with the exception of six houses, consumed by a conflagration, which destroyed the parish of Blandford St. Mary and the hamlet of Bryanston; about fourteen aged persons, who were forgotten in the confusion, perished, and several others died afterwards through fatigue and terror; the damage was computed at £100,000: the deplorable situation of the inhabitants was increased by the small-pox, which raged at the time in about sixty families: but very few, however, died from it: the town was rebuilt under the provisions of the Act of Parliament in 1732: it has a modern appearance and is pleasantly situated in a fertile district on a bend of the river Stour, over which is a substantial bridge of six arches. The local government, by the "Municipal Reform Act," is vested in a mayor, four aldermen and twelve councillors: it is watched by the county police: the boundary of the borough was extended by Local Government Order P. 621, confirmed by Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 9) Act, which came into operation 9 November, 1889. The streets are regularly formed, well paved and lighted with gas by a company; the houses uniformly built of brick: there is a plentiful supply of well water. The old church named SS. Peter and Paul having been consumed in the fire of 1731, the present church was built in 1732, and is in the style introduced by Wren: it consists of a. chancel, nave of six arches supported by Greek pillars, aisles 2nd a western tower, and was built at a. cost of £3,200: the tower is IOO feet high, snrmounted by a cupola, and ornamented with a balustrade and urns, and contains 8 bells, whioh were recast in 1883 by Taylor, of Loughborough: the church contains several handsome monuments, and was in 1879 thoroughly restored, at a cost of about £2,000, and has 1,45° sittings. The register dates from the year 1732. The living is a rectorf and vicarage, average tithe rentcharge £206, gross yearly value £198, net £160, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Salisbury, and held since 1876 by the Rev. Charles Henry Fynes-ClintoD M.A. of St. .John's College, Cambridge, and chaplain to Blandford union. The Congregational chapel, Salisbury street, founded in 1662 and rebuilt in 1867, has 420 sittings: it was restored and renovated in I894, at a cost of £340, when the roof was renewed and the interior rearranged: the Primitive Methodist chapel, Albert street, erected in 1877, seats 3°0; a Sunday school was erected in 1894: the Wesleyan chapel, The Close, built in 1830 and restored at subsequent periods, has 120 seats: the Open Brethren have a meeting room in East street, erected in 1882, and has 250 sittings. A cemetery of 4 acres, in the Salisbury road, was formed in 1855 at a cost of £2,600; there are two mortuary chapels, and it is under the control of a burial board of 9 mElmbers. The Town Hall is of Portland stone, supported by columns, with a carved entablature of the Doric order;

in the rear a commodious Corn Exchange has been erected, in which is a clock, presented by Mr. Wyatt, clock and watch maker, of this town. The market, which is well attended, is held on Saturday; and the fairs, principally for sheep, horses and horned cattle, are held on the 7th of March, 9th of September and 8th of November, and for wool the Saturday next befOTe the loth of July. The head quarters and the B Squadron of the Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry Cavalry and R Company of the 1St Volunteer Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, are stationed here. The Conservative Club, established in 1892, is in West street, and has about 500 members. There is a literary institution, which is well supported; also an industrial school for the training of young women of good character for domestic service, and Young Women's Christian Association. The cottage hospital, opened 1889, is supported by voluntary contributions and an endowment of £1,000 given. by R. Lock esq. in 1892: the building is the gift of the Hon. Miss Portman, who also provides the matron and nurses. The charitable bequests to Blandford have been numerous: there are almsh()llses, situate in Salisbury street, for ihe maintenance of 10 poor persons, founded and endowed by George Ryves esq. in 1682, and who in 1685 bequeathed the residue of his estate for apprentic- - ing poor boys, natives of Blandford and Pimperne : the entire annual income is about £200: in the churchyard are almshouses for six aged persons, which were rebuilt by the ·Corporation in 1736: chariti~s, excluding Williams' above, to the amount of £350, are distributed yearly: R. Lock esq. in 1892 gave £1,000 a9 an [ KELLY'S endowment for. curate and a like sum to the CoUag~ Hospital. This town gives the title of Marquess to the eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough: many distinguished persons have been born in Blandtord, among whom may be noticed Sir Thomas Ryves LL.D. a learned antiquary and civili!ln; the Rev. Bruno Ryves D.D. dean of Wind· sor; the Rev. Thomas Creech M.A. poet, and translator of Lucretius; Thomas Bastard A.B. a divine and poet; William Wake, archbishop of Canterbury; I Dr. Lindsay, archbishop of Armagh; Dr. Samuel Lisle, bishop of Norwich; and the Rev. Christopher Pitt, translator of Virgil's ".1Eneid." The neighbourhood is very rich in Roman and British remains. In the vicinity are some extensive fortified camps and numerous barrows in which sword blades, axe and spear heads, fibulre, coins, ornaments. urns, and a variety of ancient remains have been discovered; many have been preserved, and interesting collections exist in private hands. Fossils are also numerous in the chalk and greensand of the district. Viscount Portman is lord of the manor. The parish contains about 363 acres; rateable value £14,559 in 1894. The population in 1881 was-parish, 3,791, and in 1891, 3,985, including 56 officers and inmates in the workhouse. T'he area of the municipal borough i9 145 acres; the population in 1891 was 3,974- Nutford, a. hamlet, was by Local Government Board Order transferred to Pimpern6 in 1886. Undet' the" Local Government Act, 1894," about 204 acres of this parish has been transferred to Pimperne and 147 acres to Bryanston. Parish Clerk. Francis Essex. 26 BLANDFORD. DORSETSHIRE. tJames John BaU tJoseph Stewart Corporation. 1894-5. Mayor-Councillor Charles Henry Curtis. Aldermen. I " PbiJip Abrabam Bames 11 Edgar Bennett Smith Councillors. tCharles Henry Curtis ItRobert Norman tEdward Derham tEdwin Rideout tJohn Lewis Marsh I*John Carmichael tCharles S. Roe *Alfred Dean tGeor/!,e Dyke I *John Durden tTom Nesbitt I *Charles Henry Green Marked thus t retire in 1895 Marked thus t retire in 1896. Marked thus * retire in 1897 Marked thus 11 retire in 18g8 Mayor's Auditor, J. Stewart Elective Auditors, C. Hunt & William W. Stickland The ordinary meetings of the Corporation are held every 9th of November yearly, & three other times during the year, the times of holding being fixed at the annual meetings. Monthly meetings, 3rd tuesday Officers of the Corporation & Urban Sanitary Authority. Town Clerk & Clerk to the 'C'rban Sanitary Anthority, Edward Castleman Smith, Church lane Treasurer, Henry Shipp, Market place Medical Officer of Health, George 'Yilliamson Daniell, St. Leonards house, Langton Borough Surveyor, Sanitary Inspector & Collector of District Rates, J onas Crocker; office, Bryanston street Clerk of Markets & Fairs & Sergeant-at-Mace, Frank Goddard, 2 The Tabernacle Town Crier, Tom Bartlett, Victoria road Borough Magistrates. The l\Iayor & ex-Mayor. They meet at the Town Hall as occasion requires. Clerk, Sinclair Traill, The Plocks. Public Establishments. Almshouses, Salisbury street & The Churchyard A~sembly Rooms, West street, WaIter Strange, keeper Cemetery, Salisbury road; )Iontagu Luff, clerk to the -burial hoard Cottage Hospital, Salisbury st. Edward Monro Spooner M.D. Geo. Williamson Daniell, W. Watson M.B. &i Chas. Beyer Humphrys L.R.C.P.&S.Edin. hon surgeons; Edward Lock, hon. treasurer; Miss Denne, hon. sec.; Miss Fox, matron Corn Exchange, Market place., Frank Goddard, keeper County Police Station, Salisbury road., George Brown. inspector; 2 sergeants & 10 constables OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &e. Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office, Market place, James William Flacke, postmaster Town l;>eliveries :-lst, 7 a.m.; 2nd, It a.m.; srd, 3.30 p.m.; 4th, 8.20 p.m Outward Mails :-London & North, 9.50 a.m.; Bath, 9.50 p.m.; London (2nd), Southampton & Yeovil, &c. 12.20 p.m.; London (night) & all parts, 8.45 p.m. The last mail only on sundays, 5 minutes longer with late fee for all mails except the 8,45 p.m. which is available till 9.15 p.m. Money orders are granted & paid from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m. Savings bank business transacted from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m.; saturday, deposits till 8 p.m. Postal orders are paid & issued from 7 a.m. till 9 p.m. Telegraph office open from 8 a.m. till 8 p.m.; sunday, 8 till 10 a.m County Magistrates for Blandford Petty Sessional Division. Portmsn Viscount, Bryanston, Blandford, chairman Portman Hon. Edward William Berkeley, Hestercombe, Taunton D'Oyly Major-Gen. Sir Charles WaIters bart. Newlands, Blandford Smith-Maniott Sir William Henry bart. The Dt.wn house, Blandford L Denne Major-Gen. Lambert Henry, The Down wood, Blandford Farquharson Edward George esq. Langton, Blandford Farquharson Jas. In. esq. D.L. Langton house, Blandford Fox-Pitt Alexander Edwa,rd' Lane esq Mansel-Pleydell Lieut.-Col. Edmund Morton, Longthorns, Milborne St. Andrew, BlandfOTd Mansel-Pleydell John Clavell esq. RA., D.L. Whatcombe house, Blandford Parry-Okeden Lieut.-Col. Uvedale Edward, Turnworth, Blandford Stuarl-Gmy Lt.-Ool. FranciSl J:aIII1eS, Manor house, Blandford St. Mary, Blandford Clerk to the Magistrat~s, Sinclair Traill, The Plocks Petty Sessions are held at the Town hall on saturday at It a.m.: the following places are included in the petty sessional division :-Anderson, Blandford Forum, Blandford St. Mary, Bryanstone, Charlton Marshall, ChettIe, Durweston, Farnham, Hilton, Langton, Milborne St. Andrew, Milborne Styleham, Pimperne, Milton Abbas, Spetisbury, Steepleton Preston, Stourpaine, Tarrant Gnnville, Tarrant Hinton, Tarrant Keynston, Tarrant Launceston, Tarrant Monkton, Tarrant Rawston, Turnworth, Winterborne Clenston, Winterborne Houghton, Winterborne Stickland, Winterborne Thompson, Winterborne Whitchurch, Winter' Dorne Zelston

DIRECTORY,] DORSETSHIRE. • BLANDFORD. 27 County Court; office, The Square. His Honor J. J. Registrar of ~farriaO'es, WaIter Lance Alexandra street, Hooper, ju~ge; Sinclair Traill, registrar & high baliiff. Blandford; deputy, James Payne, 2'Eton villas ~he .court IS held at the Town hall every month. The IWorkhouse, Salisbury road, is a building of red brick, following places are within its jurisdiction :-Almer, builb in 1858 at a cost of £8,000, ta hold 220 inmates, Anderson, Belchalwell, Bland1ford :Forum, Blandford St. Rev. Charles Henry Fynes-Clinton ~I.A. chaplain; ~Iary, Bryanstone, Charlton ~Iarshall, Chettle, Child Edward Monro Spooner M.D. Coupar house, medical Okeford, Durweston, Farnham, Fifehead Neville, officer; Charles AIDey, master; Mrs. M. K. Amey, Handley, Hanford, Hazlebury, Bryan, Hilton, Ibberton, matron; ~iss E. Swaffield, children's caretaker; Ohas. • • Iwerne Courtnay (except Farrmgton), Langton, Lyd- H. Bessent, porter linch, Milborne St. .A.ndrew, Milborne Styleham, Miltort School Attendance Committee Abbas, Oke.ford Fitzpaine, Pimperne, Shilling Okeford, T • ' •• S etisbury Steepleton Stock Gaylard Preston Stoke ~eet81 a·t Umon workhouse when reqmsIte. Jake, Sto~rpaine, Stu~inster Newto~, Tarrant Craw- Clerk, Sinclair Traill, The ~l~cks ford Tarrant Gunville Tarrant Hinton Tarrant Keyn- Attendance Officers, The Rehevmg Officers ston: Tarrant Launce;ton, Tarrant ~I~nkton, Tarrant Inquiry Officers, the Relieving Officers Raw;;ton, Tarrant Rushton, Tollard Farnham, Turn- Rural District Council. worth, Winterborne Clenston, Winterborne Houghton, Meets at Union workhouse monthly. Winterborne Kingston, Winterborne Stickland, 'Yinter- Cl k S' l' T '11 Th PI k b Tb "'iV' t b Wh't h h ....7· t er, Inc all' raI, e QC S orne ompson" m er orne I cure, "Ill er- T H h K' 'Il Th t t' I P . . I borne Zelstone & Woolland reasurer, ug IllgsmI urs on, a IOna rOVIllCla h · . . I d d' h Bank of England, }Iarke't place For Bankruptcy purposes t IS' court IS mc u e III t at ~I di I om f H 1tl G Willi D' 11 St of Dorchester; Fredk. Aston Dawes, City chambers, - e ca ICeI' 0 ea I, eorge amson aDle, • Salisbury, official receiver L~onards hous,e, Langton . , Certified Bailiff under the" Law of Dis,tress Amendment Sasltary J~spe~lord~ S;rveyor, RlChd. Francis Dampney, Act," J. J. Lamperd, Eton villas, Alexandra street unny a e, aD or Fire Engine Station, East street, A. Conyers, captain Public Officers. Inland l}e,enue Office, Sali'sbury I'd: J. W. Lyle, offic~r CertifyinO' Factory Surgeon Edward :Momo Spooner Her MaJesty's 'Court of Probate, SalIsbury street, Edwm M D C pa ho ' A. ~mith, district registrar; Hy.Jn. Coward,chief clerk Clerk to t~~ B~rial ~:ard ~Iont'a u Luff The Tabernacle Masomc Rooms', West street .. .. Clerk to the Commissio~ers of land, Assessed & proStamp Office-, West street, Jas. WIllIam Flacke, dlstrlbtr perty Taxes, Edwin AugustuS! Smith, Church lane . Town Hall, ~Iarket place, Frank Goddard, keeper Collector of Land, Assessed, Property & Income Taxes, , Yeomanry Cavalry. James Payne, 2 Eton villas, Alexandra street (Portsmouth Bri ade.) Collector of Poor Rates, Wm. Harvey Pl>rter, East sb g. Inspector of Corn Returns & Inland Revenue Officer, Dorset (Queen'S! Own), B Squad,ru,n; LIeut.-Col. E. M. J. W. Lyle, SaJ.isbury road ~leydell, commander; Capt. ElllOtt Lees M.P. second Inspector of Weights & Measures for Blandford Division, III command; E. W. Cave, quarter ma.ster; Sergt.- Richard Churchill Sherborne Major Yictor L. Gordon, drill instructor Registrar of Probate:Edwn.A.ug.Smith,office, Salisbury st Volunteers. Stamp Distributor, Jas. Wm. Flacke, Post office, West st ISt Volunteer Batt.alion Dorsetshire Regiment (H Co.), Places (jf Worship. with times of Services. Drill hall, Cmn exchange, Lieut. F. D. Woodhouse, SS..Peter & Paul Church,. Rev. Charles Henry Fynescommanding; Edward Monro Spooner :M. D. Coupar Clinton M.A. rector & vIcar; sun. II a.~. 3 p.m. & house, hon. surgeon; Geo. Thos. KIight drill instrctr 6.30 p.m.; wed. II a.m. & 7.30 p.m.; fl'l. II a.m .' Congregational, Salisbury street, Rev. William Fry, Elandford Umon. minister; II a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 8 p.m Board day, every alternate saturday at Union house at Primitive Methodist, Albert street, Rev. W. Sheppard, 11.30 a.m. minister; II a.m. & 6 p.m.; mono tues. & thurs. The Union of Blandford comprises the following places :_ 7·45 winter, g p.m. summer Anderson, Blandford Forum, Blandford St. Mary, Open Brethren, East street; II a.m. &; 6.30 p.m Bryanstone, Charlton Marshall, Ohettle, Durweston, Wes,l~yan, The Close; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; thurs. 8 p.m Farnham, Hilton, Iwerne Courtenay or Shroton, Lang- Schools. . ton Long Blandford, ~Iilborne St. Andrew, ~Iilborne Boroug-h School Attendance CommIttee, clerk, E. C. Styleham, Milton Abbas, Pimperne, Spetisbury,Steeple- Smith, Church lane; attendance o:~cer, Charles Green, ton Iwerne, or Steepleton Preston, Stourpaine, Tarrant White Cliff ~Iil1 street Crawford, Tarrant GunvilIe, Tarrant Binton, Tarrant T~e Grammar School was founded & endowed in 1521 as • ]\eynston, Tarrant Launceston, Tarrant Monkton, the" :Milton Abbas School" by William :Middleton Tarrant Rawston, Tarrant Rushton, Turnworth,Winter- Abbot. of Milton, & held under the' shadow of his borne Clenstone, Winterborne Houg-hton, Winterborne magnificent abbey church until 1775. when it was reKingston, Winterborne Stickland, Winterborne Thomp- moved by Act of Parliament to Illandford. The school son, Winterborne Whitchurch & Winterborne Zelstone. is classical with strong- modern side & has good dorThe population in 1891 was 13>366; area, 60,582 acres; mitories for 50 boarders, good play-ground & asphalted rateable value (1894), £70,085. fives-court, suitable sanitorium & convalescent room & Clerk to the Guardiaus, Sinclair Traill, The Plocks gymnasium. Trustees :-Viscount Portman. John Treasurer, Hugh Kirtg'smill Thurston, National Provincial ClavelI Mansel-Pleydell esq. B.A., D.L., J.P. Rev. Chas. Bank of! England, :Market place Henry Fynes-Clinton :M.A. J. J. Farquharson esq. D.L., Relieving Officers, No. I district, George Edwd. Turner, J.P. Sir William Henry Smith-Marriott bart. J.P. Col. 5 Alfl:8d st. Blandford; No. 2 district, Thomas Cock, R. H. lliugham. Head master, Rev. l·'rederick Thomas Winterborne Stickland Harrison M.A Vaccination Officers, No. I district, Edward F. Hood, Here is a. school called the 'Milldown School, endowed East st. Blandford; No. 2 district, Thomas Cock, with £25 a year, erected 1873; W. Greenhalgh, head Winterborne Stickland master ~Iedical Omcers, No. I district. George Herbert S, Daniell National School, Park road (boys & girls), supported by :M.B. St. Leonards, B:andfoxd; No. 2 district, Edwa;rd a. voluntary rate, with an endowment for clothing & in- :\fonro Spooner M.D. Coupar house, Blandford; No. 3 structing 12 poor boys, founded & endowed by Archdistrict, Thomas Fieldin~ M.D., C.M. Milton Abbas; bishop Wake in 1729 with £5 yearly: in 1621 William No. 4 district, Francis Daniel Lys, Bere Reg-is Williams esq. gave £3,000 (since laid out in land & Public Vaccinators, No. I dist. Chas. Beyer Humphrys producing about £646 a year) for teaching poor L.R.C.P.Edin. Eagle hOt White Cliff :Mill st. Blandford; children & for other charitable purposes. The school No. 2 dillt. Edwd. Monro Spooner M.D. Coupar house, will hold 230 boys & 180 girls; average attendance, Blandford; No. 3 dist. Thoe. Fioelding M.D.,C.M. Milton' ISO boys & 130 girls; Charles McKinnon, master; Mrs. Abbas; :N O. 4 district, Francis Daniel Lys, Bere Regis Ada L. Hicks, mistress Superintendent Registrar, Sinclair Traill, The Plocks, Infant, Damory street, built Ior 250; average attendance, Blandford; deputy, J. W. Traill, The Plocks, Blandford 145; MisS! Jlary Heritage. mistress Reg:strar of Births & Deaths, Blandford sub-district, Ragged, Bryanstone street (sunday) George E. Turner, .r:; Alfred street, Blandford; deputy, 1'l John C. Turner, Salisbury road. Illandford; Jiilton, ewspaper. Abbas sub-district, Thomas Cock, Winterborne Stick- B;andford Express & District Newsman; office, 19 Salisland; deputy, Thomas White, Winterborne Stickland, bury.street, Jam~s Henry Bartlett, publisher for the near Blandford I proprIetors; pubhshed saturday, Id

Railway Station. Frederick Barrett, station agent Railway Carrierss-- Sutton & Co. (small parcels), Thomas Hammond, White Cliff Mill street, agent . GeneraL-Thomas Hammond, Temperance hotel, White Cliff Mill street Thomas Foyle, Damory street Frank Best, Oakfield street Carriers. With the places they go to, inns they go from & days of starting. Almer John Bartlett, 'Three Choughs,' West street, sat Ashmore-Isaac White, Temperance hotel, White Cliff ~!iU street, wed. fri. & alternate sat Bere Regis-Chas. Day, 'Greyhound/Market pI.tues.&fri Charlton Marshall-ThomaSl Foyle, daily; John Bartlett, 'Three Choughs,' West street, sat Chettle-Richard Adams, 'King's Arms,' we.d. & sat.; Steel, 'Antelope,' Salisbury street, wed. & sat Child! Okeford-Savory, tues. thurs. & sat. ' Greyhound.' Market place Corfe Mullen-Thomas Foyle, DamQry street, daily Crichel-Carter, 'Star,' Eal>t street, wed & sat Dorchester-Thomas Hammond, from his house, White Cliff Mill street, mono wed. & sat Farnham-Richard Adams, 'King's· Arms,' White Cliff }!ill street, wed. & sat.; Steel, 'Antelope,' Salisbury street, wed. & sat.; Harris, 'Greyhound.' wed. & sat Fontmell-Isaac White, Temperance hotel, wed.; Tuffin, tues. & fri Gunville Frederick Ridout, 'Greyhound,' wed. & sat Gussage-Gubbins, 'Greyhound,' wed. & sat.; Mrs. Stone, 'Antelope,' wed . & sat Houghton-Albert Joyce, 'Crown &; Anchor,' West st. sat [ KELLY'S Handley-Finch Day, Temperance hotel, White Cliff }IiU street, S'llt Ibberton-Solomon EISIWorth, 'Oorner Ooffee hOuse! wed. & sat Iwerne-Kail, 'Greyhound,' tues. thurs. & sat.; Isaae White, 'Three Chough's,' West st. wed.; Tufiin, tues. & fri :\JIilborne Thomas Hammond, Temperance hotel, mono wed. & sat.; George Corbin, 'Star,' East st. tue& Milton Abbas Thomas Fiander, 'Greyhound,' Marke_ place, mono & thurs.; George Guy, wed. & sat Monkton (Tarrant)-James Tanswell, 'Star,' wed. &; sa_ ~Iorden-John BarUett, 'Three Choughs.' West st. sa_ More Critchell-Gubbins, 'Greyhound,' Market plac& sat.; Mrs. Srone, 'Antelope,' Salisbury st. wed. &; sa. Okeford Fitzpaine Pope, 'Antelope,' Salisbury sbeet, wed. & sat Shapwick-Frampton, 'Star,' East street, wed. & sat Shroton-Kail, 'Greyhound,' Market pI. tues. thurs.&sa_ Spetisbury-Thomas Foyle, Damory street, daily; John Bartlett, 'Three Choughs,' sat.; Rowland, 'Crown &; Anchor,' daily Stepleton-See Iwerne· & Shroton Stickland-:Mrs. Hustings, 'Three Choughs,' West street, wed. & sat Stourpain-WiUiam Haine, occasionally Sturminster Marshall-Thos. Foyle, Damory st. daily Tarrant Gunville Frederick Ridout, 'Greyhound,' Market place, wed. & sat Tollard-Royal-Neal, 'Greyhound,' Market pLtues.&thurs Wareham-John Bartlett, 'Three Choughs,' West st. sat Whitchurch-Thoma.s Hammond, Temperance hotel, mon, wed. & sat.; Foster, 'Three Choughs,' West street, wed. fri. & sat Wimborne-Thomas Foyle, Damory street, daily Witchampton-See Crichel 28 BLANDFORD. DORSETSHIRE. PRIVATE RESIDE~rs. George Thomas, The Lanrels Porter Charles Edward, 3 Alexandra 8. Gill .AJl'thur John, Fairfield lodge, Porter William Harvey, East street Abbott MIIs. 5 West street S.al~sJbury road Reed Cecil Orchard, Market place Ainsworth James, Laurel villa Gillingham Mrs. 3 Dorset place Reed Fredk. Charles, 63 Saiisbury st Ainsworth Miss, Salisbury road Green Oharles Henry, 81 Salisbury st Richard,s Edward Owen, 2 Park pllllC0 Alexander William B. SaliS'bury street Groves Mrs. 12 The Close Rlicharos Jenkins,3IWhite Cliff Mill si Andrew,s Albert, Mayfield villa Groves Richard Henry, Macr'ket place Robbirus Goorge, The Olose Arscott WaIter, Maisonnette, Park rd Ramer Miss, 23 Wlite Cliff Mill st Roe ClHIil'le'S Samuel, 32 East street Atkinson Miss, 4 Albert street Harrison Rev. Frederick Thomas M.A. Rowell J. W. 2 East street Backway Arthur, The Ploc'ks (head master of Grammar school), Russell -, Damory Court villa Baker ATthurr Henry, Market place Ea.st street Salkeld WilLiam James, 41 East st Ba.lil. Frederick, Albert street Hicks John James, 20 Victoria road Sheoppard Rev. W. (Primitive MethoB'a.rnes- John lIe,s, Summer Hayes, RicklS Ro~, Damory street. Gist), Damory street .A1bert street Hicks William, 47 Damory street Shopland John Rew, 29 White Cliff Bartlett Oharles Cox, Park house HiUyer AJ!bert Henry, Oakfield street Mill street Bishop William Sidney, 23 Market pI Rillyer William Henrry, .A.Jshburton ho Short Edmund, Edwaa'd street Blandford Ernest Winter,Salisbury rd Hobbs Alfred, 5 Salisbury street Short Mr,s. I Dorset street Boyland Charle,s Edward, SaliSlbury ·st Hodges Henry, 3 Plocks Skivington Wlilliam, I Oak villa! BrickeIl Fra.nk Wm. 20 Alexandrn st Hookey Steplhen, Lion villa, Albert st Smart Geo. Prirrm'ose viLAlexa.ndra s_ Cherry .Alfred', 27 White Cliff Mill st Houghoon MI1s. Salisbury road Smart George Ernest, Edward street Oole·s Fredetrick, 5 East street Hump'hrys Charles Beyer L.R.C.P. & Smith Mrs. William, Salisbury house, Coombs John, 3 East street S. Edin.Eagle ho.White Clriff Millst Salisbury street Courtney George Dalton, Berwick Johns Mrs.Brya.IlIston cot.Bryaruston st Spooner Edwd. Monro M.D. Couparho house, Park road Kent Miss, 4 Park road Steel David, 18 Edward street Coward Henry John, Salisbnry street King Frands, The Cottage, Oakfield st Symonds Henry, SaLisbury road Crocker Jonas, The Close Kn[ght Miss, 86 Salisbury stTeet Thurston Hugh K. Market place Dalrymple James, I Market place Lawrence He<nry, 2 Valencia villas, Traili S[nclair, 19 East street Daniel Miss, 34 East street Sal[sibury road Turner John Chappell, Salisbury road Daniell Geo. Herbt. S., M.B. St. Leach William Pardy, Sunny villa Underwood Mrs. 2 Albert street Le0IJ3rd's Leigh Ch·arles John Wilson, Field Wan.os-trocht Mrs. Wanostrocht villa, Dans Mrs. Field·s oak, Salisbury st ihouse, Albert street Albert street Day Miss, The Plocks Lock Miss, 13 Bryanston street Wareham William, 12 The Plocks Docker Wiilliam Edward, 3 Park road Ma,rsh In. Lems, White Oliff Mill st Wheele,r Mrs. Victoria. road Dudde;ridge Henry, 43 DamoTy street Marshall James, Market place Wyatt Arthur Lithgon, 39 Damory .\ Durden John, Ma.rket place Norman MI1s. 16 E!lJst street Wyatt Mrs. 49 Damory street Flacke James WiUiam, 4 West street Norman RQbert D. Park road Ye.atmaIll Mrs. 84 Salisbury street Fry Rev. Wm. (Cong.),61 Salisbury st Park Mrs. Tudor house, Oakfield st Yeatman Joseph, 82 Salisbury street Fyne.s-Clinton Rev. Gha.rlels Henry Payne James,2 Elton vils.Alexandra st Yeatman Mrs. 46 Wihite Cliff Mill st M.A. Rectory Pond Mrs. The Plocks COMMERCIA.L. Alexander & Cherry, wholesale & retail drapers & gentlemen's outfitters, silk mercers, costumiers & milliners, 8, ro, loa, & 12 Salisbury street Alner Mark, wheelwright, Charles street Alsford JameS' J. monumental mason, 10 Victoria Toad Alsford John James, boot & -shoe maker, 37 Dorset street Ames E. &; C. (.Misses), dress makers,38 'White Cliff Mill st Amey Charles, master of the wOTkhouse Applin Wm.professor of music &music seller,1I Dorset st Archer .John WlIllam & Son, builders, contractors, monumental k statuary masons; estimates given, 21 White Cliff Mill street Arkell Samuel, greengrocer, 29 East street Arscott WaIter, grocer, see Wareham & Arscott Ashford Charles, linen draper, 25 Market place Assembly Rooms (WaIter Strange, keeper), West street Aubrey Benj.BileSl M.R.C.V.S. vet. surgeon, West stree\ Backhouse Frederick John, shopkeeper, 3 Dorset street Backway James, general draper, Salisbury street Baker Arlh.Hy.mangr.of Wilts & Dorset Bank, Market pI Ball James &; Son, coach builders', West street Ball Edmund, Robert, fishmonger, 19 West street Barnes John lIes, wool stapler, 50 East street Barnes Philip A. wool stapler & manure mer. 50 East .\ Barrett Frederick, station master, Railway station Bartlett Charles, carpenter, Orchard street Bartlett James Henry, printer. 19 Salisbury street.

DIRECTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. • BLANDFORD. 29 Bartlett Tom, town crier, Victoria road BarneSl T. road contractor, 20 Albert street Batt William, sexton & keeper, The Oemetery Ba.verstock George, whitesmith, 67 Salisbury street Beer Thomas John, currier & leather seller, Market place Belbin Henry, Three Choughs inn, West street BelIamy Frederick Richard, butcher, II Market place Bennett Jane (Mrs.),boot&shoe warehouse, 29 Salisbury st Best Charles, jun. fishmonger, 5 Oakfield street Best Frank, mail contractor, Rose cot. Salisbury road Bishop George Augustus, boot &; shoe maker, 12 West st Blallchard Frank, auctioneer &c. Salisbury street Blandford C()nstitutiona~ Club (H. England, hon. sec.), West street Blandford Cricket Club (Ronald Smart, hon. sec) Blandford Cycling Club (E. F. :Barrett, hon. sec) Blandford Express &; District Newsman (James Henry Bartlett, publisher for the proprietors; published sat.), 19 Salisbury street Blandford Farmers' Club (Edward Owen Richard, sec.), Crown hotel, West street Blandford Gas & Coke Co. Limited (Chas. Hunt, Bee. &; manager). The Close, Damory street Blandford Literary Institution (Charles E. Porter, sec.; Mrs. Ranc!alI, manageress), 73 East street Blandford Waterwork9 Co. Limited (Charles E. Porter, sec.); registered offices, 3 Alexandra. street Blandford Young Men's Christian Association (A. W. Backway, sec.), C{)rner coffee house, Salisbury street Blandford Albert Edwin, shoeing smi~h, East street Blandford Henry (exors. of), nursaryman & seedsman, Salisbury road Blandford Henry, shoe maker, 32 Salisbury street Blandford In.Wm.upholsterer&auctioneer,45 Salisbury st Brennand William Ernest, solicitor &; commissioner for taking oaths, East street Brine Ann (~Irs.), confectioner, 14 Salisbury street Brooks Edward, Half Moon P.R. 16 White Cliff Mill st BrJwn Caroiine (Miss), Greyhound P.H. Market place Brown George, inspector of county police, Salisbury I'd Bunce Louis Bodley, boot maker, I Salisbury street Burpitt Mary ElIen (Mrs.), Railway hotel, Oakfield st Carmichael John, plumber &c. 8 .Alexandra street Carter Thomas, boot maker, 13 Orchard street Cemetery (Montague Luff, clerk to the burial board), Salisbury road Chamen i& Richards, wine merchants, 9 The Close Champion -, Crown family & commer0ial hotel, West st Cherry Alfred, draper, see Alexander &; Cherry Coates Charle-s, hay & straw dealer, Tabernacle Oonyer& Arth. gun maker 59, &; cycle dlr. 67 East street Corn Exchange (Frank Goddard, keeper), Market place Corner Coffee House(Mrs. Hoskins, proprs.), Salisbury st Cottag-e Hospital (Edward Monro Spooner M.D. Georg-e Williams'on Daniel & Charles :Beyer Humphrys L.R.C.P. & S.Edin. hon. surgeoM; Edward Lock, hon. treas.; Miss Denne, hon. sec.; J\-Iis's Fox, matron) Coulston Geo. Hy. tailor & woollen draper, 4 Salisbury st County Court (Sinclair Traill,registrar); oflice,TheSquare County Police Station (Goo. Brown, inspctr.),Salisbury rd County Training Home for Cottage Nurses (Miss M. DanielI. hon. sec.; Miss E. Haywood, nurse), White Cliff Mill street Coward Charles, marine store dealer, 32 Bryanstone st Cox George, boot & shoe maker, 53 Salisbury street Cozens Edwin, agent for the Wesleyan &; General Assurance Co. 9 Dorset street Crocker Jonas, borough surveyor, sanitary inspector & district rate collector; office, Bryanston street Cro~s Giles, shopkeeper, 2 Damory street Cullen Thomas Barsham, painter, Market place CurUs Charles Henry, tailor, 18 Market place Cutler Albert Henley, Prince of Wales P.H. &; plumber, 15 Oakfield street 1)alrymple Jas. ironmonger &c. see Lindsay & Dalrymple Dalrymple Mary IsabelIa (Miss),iboarding school, Bank ho Dampney Richard Fraucis, road surveyor & sanitary inspector for Blandford Rural District Council, Sunnydale, Albert street Daniell Geo. Herbert S., M.B. wrgn. & med. officer, No. I district, Blandford union, St. Leonards Davis Albert, groce,r, Dorset street Davis Robert L. millwright, Edward street Dean Alfred, shopkeeper, Post office, Albert street & butcher, East street Dean Frederick, jun. baker. East street Derham Charles, beer retailer, Damory Court stred Derham Edward, printer, 65 East street Derham Fanny (~frs.), fruiterer, 65 East street Dibben Herbt. Wm. solicitor, 6 Salisbury st.; & Wimbrne Dominy John, pork butcher, 42 Salisbury street Domoney Henry, hair dresser, 25 Salisbury street Domoney Henry, jun. hair dresser, I West street Dorset Building Society (Jas. Payne, sec.),Alexandra st Dorset &; Southern Counties Temperance Association (E. G. Coombes, hon. sec.), 34 White Cliff Mill street Dorset (Queen's' Own Yeomanry Cavalry: B SquadronLieut.-Col. E. M. Pleydell, captain; Capt. Elliott Lees M.P. second in command; Sergt.-:Vlajor Victor L. Gordon, sergeant-inSltructor Dove Daniel, bricklayer, 22 Dorset street Dowding &; Son, saddlers &; harness mkrs.33 Salisbury st Durden Henry, grocer &; wine :& spirit agent, Market pI Dyke George, watch maker &; jeweller, 30 Salisbury st Easton J,sph.F dk.Blanchard,outfitte;rs' tr.aiVllr.25 Orchard st Elphinstone Mary Ann (Mrs.), apartments, II Victoria I'd England Mrs. apartments, 78 Salisbury street Essex Francis, tailor, 62 Salisbury street Eyers George, beer retailer, 6 Albert street Eyers Hy. fruiterer, 6 Salisbury st.&;corn dlr.Salisbury I'd Fire Engine Station (A. Conyers, capt.), East street Flacke Jas.Wm.postmaster&stamp distributor, 4 West st Foot Alfred Henry, engineer &; machinist, Orchard street Ford Sidney, taxidermist, 16 The Close Foyle Thomas, coal &; coke merchant, briquettes, 1ValIsend &; Dean Forest coalS' &c. Damory street Freke Fred, baker, 71 Salisbury street Freke George (Mrs'.), grocer, 39 East street Fry Sarah (Miss), furniture dealer, 24 Salisbury street Garrett Jessie (Miss), dress maker, 10 Market place GealI William FoweII, cutler, 43 Salisbury street George Thomas, wholesale & retail gTocer, provision merchant &; cheese· & bacon factor, East street Gibbs Albert, tailor, 38 East street Gibbs Frank, New Inn P.H. 30 East street Gill Henry & Co. tea dealers &; tobacconists, 12 Market pI Gill &; Co. chemists, 6 West street Goddard Frank, town hall keeper &; clerk of fairs &; markets, Tabernacle GOI'don Sergt.-~ajor Victor L. drill instructor to Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry Cavalry, I Alexandra street Grammar School, Rev. Frederick Thomas Harrison, head master, East street Grant Je,sse, Red Lion P.R. Market place Green Augustine Henry, builder &; contractor, North pI Green Chas. school attendance officer,White Cliff Mill st Greyhound inn (:Miss Caroline Brown, proprietress), Market place Groves Gilbert Ironside, farmer, Damory Court farm & saddler & harness maker, West street Groves Richard Henry, pharmaceutical &; agricultural chemist (established 1824), Market place Hall & Woodhouse. brewers &; maltsters &; wine &; spirit merchants & mineral water manufacturers of Ansty & Blandford St. -Mary. See advertisement facing commencement of Dorsetshire Hall Georg-e, chimney sweeper, 10 Bryanston street Hamilton Julins, chemist, East street Hammond James, teacher of music, 77 Salisbury streeli Hammond Louisa (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 77 Salisbury street Hammond Thomas, pasting 1& job master; landaus, broughams, victorias &; well-appointed four-in-hand; nacks & harness horses for any period; improved funeral g-lass car; teles:raphic address, "Hammond, Blandford," Temperance hotel, White Cliff Mill street. See advertisement Hansford John Alfred, boot maker, 44' Orchard street Hardiman William Henry, boot &:; shoe mkr.28Salisbury st Hardy Frederick, jun. horse dealer, 43 East street Hardy Walter, coffee rooms, East street Hayward Edward, oilman, Albert street Hayward James, chimney sweeper, Bryanston street Heizman William, jun. ironmonger, 3 Salisbury street Heizman Wm. watch maker &; jeweller, 20 Salisbury st Hicks John James, clothier &; outfitter, 17 West street Hi!!nman Cnarles. beer retailer, 12 Damory street Hinver William Henry, wool merchant, Ashburton house Hobbs John James, stationer, 7 Salisbury street Hodg-es Eliza (Mrs.), tobacconist, 27 East street Hood Edward Francis, vaccination officer, No. I district, Blandford union. 31 East street Hood R. J. &:; E. F. watch makers &; jewellers, 31 East st Hookey Stephen, iron &; brass founder, Orchard street Hooper Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 43 Dvrset street Hopkins Joseph Chas. Railway inn, 12 Damory Court st Horlock Levi, boot & shoe maker, 17 White Cliff Mill st Humphrys Charles Beyer L.R.C.P.&S.Edin. physician &; surgeon & public vaccinator. No. I district, l31andford union, Eagle house, White Cliff :Mill street!; Hunt Charles. architect &; surveyor, &; sec. & manager of Blandford Gas &Coke Co.Lim. EImfield cots. The Close • Hunt G€orge, baker, Orchard street

30 BLANDFORD. IJORSETSHIRB. [ KELLY'S Hunt Hehry Joseph, estate carpenter, 10 Alexandra street Hunt Thomas, pork butcher, 52 Salisbury street Ingram I&i Co. agricultural smiths, White Cliff Mill st In:1and Reveruue Offioo (J. W. Lyle~ officer), Salisbury I'd James George, sh~ing smith, Red Lion yard, Market pI Jay John, shoeing smith, 6 East street Jeffery Mary Ann {Mrs.), baker, 28 VictDria road Johns .& Traill, solicitors &; commis.sioners for administering oaths, The Plocks Jolliffe WaIter Robert, hair dresser, 38 Salisbury street KaiI George, jobbing gardener, 16 Albert street Keech John Thomas M.R.O.V.S. veterinary surgeon, & veterinary inspector for Sturminster Newton &; Stalbridge, Edward street Kendall Edwin Geo. baker &; confectioner, 13 Salisbury st Keynes Brothers, butchers, 21 Salisbury street King Charles T. painter, 36 East street King George, assistant superintendent Prudential Assurance Co. 45 Damory street Knight Geo. T. musketry instrctr. Damory Oourt street Lamperd Joseph John, certified bailiff under the" Law of Distress Amendment Act," I Eton viIs. Alexandra st Lance John Charles, fancy repository, 57 Salisbury st Lance WaIter, registrar of marriages for Blandford union, Alexandra street Legg S. butcher, Sal~sbury street Llndeay & Dalrymple, tinners, gas & hot water fitters, whitesmiths, oil & color men &; furnishing &; general ironm-ongers, I Market place Lovell Benjamin, White Hart P.H. 42 East street Loyal Blandford Lodge (No. 4,680) Independent Order of Oddfe1lows (J. Seamen, sec. ),Greyhound P.H.Market pI Luff Montagu M.A. solicitor, &; clerk to the burial board &; agent to the Oommercial Union &; Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Oos. 6 The Tabernacle Lyle J. W. ins'pector of corn returns & inland revenue officer, Salisbury 'l"oad Malton Robert, shopkeeper, 20 Bryanston street Markwell & Co. wholesale &; retail grocers, provision dealers &; tallow chandlers, 23 Market place Marsh John Lewis, King's Arms hotel, White Oliff Mill street &; brewer &; maltster, Town brewery Marsh Nehemiah Hy. pork butcher, 6 White cliff, Mill st Marshall & 00. linen drapers &; silk mercers, West street Marshall James, silk mercer, tailor, ladies' outfitter, general drapery &; furnishing stores, 14 Market place Masters Lucy (Miss), shopkeeper, I Sheep Market hilI Meatyard Unity Rose (Mrs.), private school (boys' & girls'), 18 East street Meech William George, cabinet maker, 31 West street Millard Mary Ann (Mrs.), fancy repository, 17 East st Milldown School (W.Greenhalgh,head master),Damory st Milton Abbas Grammar School (Rev. Frederick Thomas Harrisan M.A. master), East street . Mitchell Simeon, pork butcher, 17 Salisbury street Monckton Clara (Mrs.), Crown &; Anchor P.H. II West st Morris David, shopkeeper, 16 Edward street National Provincial Bank of England Limited (Hugh Kingsmill Thurston, manager), Market place; draw on head office, 112 Bishopsgate street within, London Nesbitt Tom, photographer, 7 Market place Norman &; Sons, builders, contractors &; undertakers; office, 16 East street; steam eaw mills, The Clooe North IJorset Conservative Association (Gen. Sir William Parke K.C.B. president; H. Syndercombe esq. hon. sec.; Henry W. Parker, chief agent), West street OliveI' Elias, tailor, 14 Alexandra. street Orchard Nathaniel, shopkeeper, 40 East street Paddock Ann (Mrs.), butcher, 11 Salisbury street Paine Jannett (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 4 Alexandra street Parker Henry W. solicitor, &; comInissioner :for oaths &; registratioll agent for North Dorset Conservatin Association, West street Payne James, deputy registrar of births, deaths & marriages &; collector of land, assessed, property &; income taxes, 2 Eton villas, Alexandra street Pearman Emily Mary (Miss), day school, 2 Alexandra st Pirangley Albert Henry, baker, 21 BRst street Phelps Chas. wood turner &; basket maker, 69 East street Pizer Susan (Mrs.), apartments, 41 Dorset street Pond Samuel, ironmonger, Market place PooIe Rhoda (Mrs.), apartments, 2 Oak viIs. The Olose Poore Oharles, greengrocer, 18 Albert street Praed &; Brown, drapers, 3 West street Porter Oharles Edward, auctioneer, valuer &; general agent, secretary to the Blandford Waterworks Co. Lim. & Blandford Literary Institution, &; collector to the Gas 00. 3 Alexandra street Porter William Harvey, assistant overseer &; collector of poor's rates, I East street Randall Brothers, painters, 36 Orchard Iltreet Raymond Montague James, solicitor, 6 The Tabernacle Reed & Son. upholsterers, cabinet makers, undertakers, house agents, valuers &; appraisers, 17 Market pI Reed Frederick Charles, wine &; spirit merchant, 63 Salisbury street Reeks Mary Ruth (Mrs.), beer retailer, 59 Dorset street Rice Hy. In. commercial traveller,32 White Oliff Mill st Rideout Edwin, plumber, 22 Alexandra street Riggs In. Thos. grocer, Salisbury st.&;9White Oliff Mill st Roe Chas. &; Son, saddlers &; harness makers, 55 East st Roe Richard R. engraver &; ornamental writer, East st Rose Tom French, George P.H. 26 Salisbury street Rutley Alfred Hugh, pork butcher, 40 Salisbury street Samways Henry, laundry, 12 Alexandra road Saunders WilliHm, Blue Boar P.H. .East street Savago Alfred, boot &; shoe warehouse, 9 Salisbury street Scutt &; Sons, corn &; seed merchants; offices, opposite the Railway station Seaman Hannah (Mrs.), day school, 3 Alfred street Shipp Henry, bookseller, stationer &; printer, 4 Market pI Short Isabella A. (Mrs.), dress maker, Edward street Short ·Wm. In. corn dlr. &; seedsman, 27 Salisbury street Shorto In. Solomon, bldr. &; statuary mason,Salisbury I'd Simor-ds James, baker, 57 East street Sims George Henry, Star inn, East street Singer ManUfacturing Co. (G. Elford,agent),64 Salsbry.st Skivington William &; Son, pianoforte &; organ warehouse, 22 Salisbury street Smart George &; Son., coal, coke &; salt merchants &; cartage contractors, Railway Station yard; office, Edward street Smith Edgar Bennett &; Son, hosiers, breeches makers & tailors, 28 Market place Smith Edward Oastleman, solicitor, town clerk, &; clerk to urban sanitary authority &; school attendance committee, & commissioner for oaths, Ohurch lane Smith Edwin Augustus, solicitor, clerk to the commissioners of taxes &; district registrar of the probate court, JJhvrch lane Snow &; eo': coal merchants, Railway station. See advt Spooner Edward Monro M.D. physician &; surgeon, & medical officer umon workhouse &; medical officer No. 2 district &; public vaccinator No. I district Blandford union & certifying factory surgeon &; hon. surgeon H Co. of Volunteers &; to the cottage hospital, Coupar ho Stayner Robt. Castle inn&;marine store dlr. Bryanston st Stewart Joseph, linen draper, 33 East street Stlckland H. & Son, plumbers, painters, house deeDratJrs &; paperhangers, 10 Market place; &; at Puddletown Stickland William W china, glass &; earthenware dealer, 20 Market place Strange -, hair dresser, 16 Salisbury street Sutton &; Co. carriers (Thomas Hammond, agent), Temperanee hotel, White Oliff Mill street Tanner & 00. coal dealers, Station yard Tanner John, plumber, 13 West street Tanner S. (Mrs.), confectioner, IS West street Temperance Hotel (Thomas Hammond, proprietor), White Cliff Mill str-eet Thick John, plumber, 80 Salisbury street Thurston Hugh Kingsmill, manager of National Provincial Bank &; treasurer to the union &; rural sanitary authority, Market place Town Hall (Frank Goddard, keeper) Traill Sinclair (firm, Johns &; Traill), solicitor, commissioner for oaths &; taking acknowledgments of deeds by married women, clerk to the magistrates of Blandford petty sessional division &; rural district council, & highway board &; registrar of county court &; clerk to the guardians & school attendance committee, &; superintendent registrar of Blandford union, The Plocks Tucker James, chimney sweeper,s The Plocks Tuffin Edmund, buildeJ' & whiting manuftr. Alfred street Turner George Edward, relieving officer No. I: district Blandford union &; registrar of births &; deaths for Blandford sub-district, 5 Alfred street Turner John O. deputy registrar of births & deaths for Blandford sub-district, Salisbury road Vanner Charlotte (Miss), dress maker, Damory street Vanner Frederick Oharles, builder, 7 East street Volunteer Battalion (1st) Dorsetshire Regiment (H Co. Lieut. F. D. Woodhouse, commanding; Henry Momo Spooner M.D. hon. assistant surgeon; George Thomas Knight, drill instructor), Drill hall, Oorn Exchange Walberton William, carriage builder, 8 &; 9 Oakfield st Wareham &; Arscott, grocers & agents for W. &; A. Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit merchants, Salisbury street Wareham Henry, shopkeeper,22 Orchard street Wareham Henry George, grocer, 34 Salisbury street Wareham John Elias, timb~r dealer, 17 Albert str~t

DIREOTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. BOTHENHAMPTON. 31 Baker, manager), Market place; draw on Glyn, Mills & Co. London Wright David, Antelope P.H. 59 Salisbury street Wright Henry William, glass & china dlr. 15 Salisbury st Yeatman Joseph, boot maker, 54 East street Young' Women's Christian Association (Miss Bartlett, matron), 75 Salisbury street Wells Rose (Mrs.), greengrocer, 44 East street Watts John & Son, fellmongers & rope & twine merchants, 61 East street Westcott Edward, watch maker, 5 Market place Wheeler Annie (Miss), dress maker, 51 Salisbury street Wheeler Harry, watch maker, 22 Market place Wilkins 'fhomas, Fleur-de-Lis P.H. 13 East street Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Lim. (branch) (Arthur Henry BLANDFORD ST. MARY is a parish, connected The manor formerly belonged to the family of Thomas with the town of Blandford by a bridge of six arches Pitt, grandfather to the great Lord Ch.atham; several over the Stour, in the Northern division of the county, of the family are buried ilL a vault under the north aisle hundred of Coombs Ditch, Blandford petty sessional of the church. Sir William Henry Smith-Marriott division, union and county court district, rural deanery bart. J.P. is lord of the manor and principal landowner of Whitchurch (Milton portion), archdeaconry of Dorset I and resides at The Down House. The soil is light loam; and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. Mary, a subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and building of flint and stone in the Perpendicular style, oats. The area is 1,873 acres; rateable value, £2,665; consists of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, north the population in 1891 was 375. transept, south porch, square embattled western tower Parish Clerk, David Miles. and 3 bells: it was repaired, resented, and a north aisle I . . and vestry erected and east window inserted in 1862, Letters through Blandford, whic~ IS the nearest money and the chancel was restored in 1886: there are 200 order & telegraph office, arrIve at 7 a.m. 12 noon sittings. The register dates from the year 1581 . The & 7 p.m living is a rectory, gross yearly value £350, net £190, Wall Letter Box, near the Brewery, cleared at 9.30 a.m. with residence, in the gift of 'Worcester College, Oxford, & 12.10, 7 & 8 p.m.; sundays, 8 p.m and held since 1881 by the Rev. William Chambers M.A. School (mixed), erected in 1846, for 70 children; average late fellow and tutor of that college. Browne Willis attendance, 52; supported by Lady Smith-Marriott; LL.D. the celebrated antiquary, was born here in 1682. Miss McLean, mistress . Hall & Woodhouse, brewers & maltsters & wine & spirit merchants & mineral water manufacturers; & at Ansty, Dorchester. See advert. facing commencement ofDorsetshire Hunt William, farmer Sharp Richard, seedsman Steele Jane (Mrs.), laundress Woodhouse Alfred Charles, brewer & maltster, see Hall & Woodhouse James Robert & Thomas, wood dealers James John, woodman Saunders William, farmer Spencer John, post office Swyer Charles, blacksmith Young GeOI:ge Thomas, farmer . PRIVATB RESIDENTS. Woodhouse Alfred Charles Blanchal'd Robert Chambers Rev. William M.A. (rector) COMMERCIAL. Martin Charles, Bridge view Arnold WaIter, shoe maker Polden Henry Charles Blandford Henry, New inn & tent ma PaIden James Charles, Bridge view Boyt Richard, farmer Smith-Marriott Sir William Henry Brine Elizabeth (Mrs.), cooper bart. J.P. The Down house Cross William, wheelwright & smith Stuart-Gray Lieut Col. Francis Jas. Ford William, shopkeeper J.P. Manor house Freak Annie (Mrs.), dress maker Upshall Charles James, Hillside cottage Hare George, tailor :BLOXWORTH (or Blocksworth) is a parish, about 6 ' sermon was regulated, still exists: at the restoration of miles north-by-west from Wareham station on the Lon- the chancel in 1870 all that was possible of the old don and South Western railway, in the Eastern division 'I bnilding was retained: there are 125 sittings. The reof the county, hundred of Coombs Ditch, Wareham petty gister dates from the year 1579. The living is a. recsessional division and county court district, union of I tory, average tithe rent-charge £213, gross yearly value Wareham and Purbeck, rural deanery of Whitchurch £280, net £180, including 48 acres of glebe, with resi- (Poole portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of dence, in the gift of Col. J. Pickard-Cambridge, and Salisbury. The church of St. Andrew was originally held since 1868 by the Rev. Octavius Pickard-Cambridge a. Norman structnre, of which the only portion now M.A. of University College, Durham, F.R.S. who is also existing is the entrance doorway: it was rebuilt in the rector of Winterborne Thompson. On the heath are 14th century, partly in the Pointed, partly in the Deco- Woolbarrow, or Oldbury, an ancient British camp; and rated style; subsequently-probably towards the end of other barrows. Col. Jocelyn Pickard-Cambridge J.P. the 17th centnry, or perhaps earlier-it was again rebuilt who resides at BlDxworth House, is lord of the manor in its present substantial though debased Gothic form; and chief landowner. The parish comprises a strip of portions of the l:'arlier rebuilding are here cnriously land, about 3! miles by li, between the parishes of mixed in and utilized: at that time also the chancel Morden and Bere Regis, running north and south; the app~:trs to hava been rebuilt, out of (at any rate in soil if the northern portion is chalk, of the middle, clay. part) the materials of the body of the church: it con- and of the southern part gravel and sand. The chief sists of chancel, nave and south porch: it has a square crops are wheat and barley; the extent is 2,776 acres of embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 2 cultivated, wood and heath lands; rateable value, bells, one of which is of the 14th century, and around £1,608; the population in 1891 was 260. the rim is an inscription which consists of the words SextJn, Henry Short. Sancta Maria in capital letters separated by crosses: it Post Office.-John Spencer, sub-postmaster. Letters contains several memorials to the Trenchard and Pickard throngh Wareham, arrive at 7 a.m. & dispatched at families, and the manorial pew has fresco armorial 7 a.m. & 6.45 p.m.; sundays, arrive 7.30 a.m.; disdesigns belonging to the Savages, lords of the manor pat~hed at 11 a.m. Postal orders are issued here, previous to the year 1700: the chancel was rebuilt in but hot paid. The nearest money order & telegnph 1870; and the nave was reseated and a new pulpit office is at Bere Regis erected in 1887 by the present rector: this is one of the School (mixed), with house for mistress, built in 1874, very few churches where the original hour glass and for 60 children; average attendance, 45; Miss Ellen stand by which, after the Reformation, the length of the Hatten, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Young Miss . Cunliffe Maj.-Gen. G.Gordon,TheLdge . COMMERCIAL. Pickard-Cambridge Col. Jocelyn J.P. Bartlett Charles, farmer, Marsh farm B:oxworth house (Letters through Blandford) Pickard-Cambridge Rev. Octavius Bemister Saml. Edwd. grocr. & draper M.A., F.R.S. (reetor) Burden George, cowkeeper, Woodlake BOTHENHAMPTON (otherwise Baunton) is a parish, forming a suburb of Bridport, which it adjoins, and bounded on the west by Bridport harbour, in the Western division of the county, liberty of Loders, Bridport union, petty sessional division and county court district, and chiefly in the Bridport municipal borough, rural deanery of Bridport (Bridport portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The church of the Holy Trinity is a small and ancient stone structure in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle and square embattled tower; it is now used only as a mortuary chapel: the new church of the Holy Trinity is an edifice standing on an eminence, about a mile from the sea at West Bay, and erected in 1889, in the Early English style: it consists of chancel and nave, built under the direction of Mr. Edward S. Prior, architect, London: there are sittings for 225. The register dates from the year 1722. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £71, gross yearly value £96, net £85, with residence and 8 acres of glebe, added in 1863 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, in the gift of the Rev. Sir Evan Yorke Nepean bart. and held since 1894 by the Rev. Charles Octavius Watson M.A. of Qu~en's College, Oxford,. The

32 BOTHENHAMPTON'. DORSETSHIRE. [ KELLY'S Watson Rev. Chas. 0., M.A. Vicarage Denziloe William Robt. jun. dairyman Werninck Rev. John Wynn (vicar of Hawkins R. Waldron, The George P.R Wallditch), Westlands Jeffery Joshua, boot &; shoe maker COMMERCIAL. Kingman George, bailiff to Messrs. E. BridportBrick, Tile, Pipe, Terra Cotta CIent &; Sons, Wych farm & Pottery Works Lim. Miller Charles, farmer Conway Charles, carpenter Smith Amos, dairyman, Hyde DenziIoe Frederick, farmer Swaffield Hy. stone mason &; shopkpr Denziloe William, tax. collector Zealley John, farmer, Hyde farm Rev. Sir E. Y. Nepean bart. is lord of the manor. The principal landowner is Joseph Gundry J.P. of the Hyde. The soil is clay, loam and fox mould; subsoil, rocky. The geological formation consists largely of forest marble. The chief crops are wheat, barley, flax and grass. The area is 823 acres; rateable value £3,760; the population in 1891 was 490, of which 121 are included in the municipal borough of Bridport. Wanderwell is ! mile south. Wanderwell the residence of Joseph Thompson Stephens is within the borough of Bridport. Ackerman Mrs Cosser Henry, Hill side de Lantour Col. Edward J., RA. Jacolines Gundry Joseph J.P. The Hyde Honeyburne Robert James Abraham Rooke J.P. Nordons May James RN Powell Daniel, Hyde corner House is esq. and Sexton, Joseph Meech. Letter Box, cleared at 6.15 p.m. on week days only. Letters through Bridport, 1 mile distant, which is the nearEllst money order &; telegraph office, arrive at 8.15 a.m A School Board of 5 members was formed 6 Nov. 1872 for the extra municipal portion of the parish; S. Ackerman, clerk to the board &; attendance officer Board School (mixed), built in 1868, for 80 children; average attendance, 72; Mrs. Rowson, mistress BOURTON is a parish on the river Stour, 3 miles widely known engineering works of Mr. E. S. Hindley, south-west from Mere, 4 north-west from Gillingham which give employment to a great number of hands; station on the London and South Western railway, 4 also two quoarries, yielding blue and sand stone, suitable east from Winca.nton station on tIle Midland and South for building purposes. Formerly there were large WeJS1tern junction railway and 9 north-west from silk cloth factories in the village, but now all are Shaftesbury, in the Northern division of the county, closed. The Right Ron. Lord Stalbridge is lord of the liberty of Gillingham, Gillingham petty sessional sub- manor. Oharles HllJlllJ8m and E. S. Hindley esqrs. are division and county court district, Mere union, rural the principal landowners. .The soil is clay; subsoil, deanery of Shaftesbury (Shaftesbury portion), arah- olay. The land is chiefly in pasture. The a.roo i:;, 8go deaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. At the acres; rateable value, £3,543; the population in 18g1 north end of Bourton, the counties of Dorset, Somerset was 782. and Wilts meet; the pl~ce is marked by 81 boundllI'y Palrish Clerk, Frederick Reeves. stone. The church of St. George was rebuilt in 1878-9; Post, M. O. &; T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity it is in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, &; Insurance Office. John Lush, postmaster. Letters nave, south porch and one bell: there is a good organ through Bath Slhould be addressed Bourton (Dorset), with two manuaJs, and sittings for upwards of 300 Ba,th, as there are other Bourtons in Somerset for persons. The register dates from the year 1810. The which Bath is the post town. Deliveries commence living, formerly a chapelry of Gillingham, is a vicarage, at, week days, 7 a.m. &; 3.10 p.m.; sundays, 7 a.m. average tithe rent-charge £260, gross Yet8lrly value only; dispatched, week days 12.5 &; 7.40 p.m.; dis- £390, net £270, with residence in the gift of 12 trustees patched, sundays, 7.40 p.m. only but pro hac vice the vicar of Gillingham, and held since Wall Letter Box, Chaffeymoor, cleared at 12.15 &; 6.5 1871 by the Rev. George Glover M.A. of Christ's p.m. on week days only. High street, cleared at College, Cambridge. Here are chapels for Baptists 11.55 a.m &; 7.15 p.m. on week days and Wesleyans, the latter of which was rebuilt in 1888, National School (mixed), built in 1872, &; since enlarged on the old site, at a cost of £5°0: it is a substantial for 150 children; average attendance, 100; Edward building of stone with red brick dressings. Here are the Ezl'aI Marriott, master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. medical officer of health, Mere rural Hiscock Edwin, farmer &; landowner Ilartlett Benj. Pope, Brecknock house sanitary authority, Brecknock house Ings Emma (Miss), beer retailer :Batley Mrs. Chaffeymoor grange Burpitt Edgar &; Clarence, carpenters Jukes James, farmer &; jobmaster Butt Clement, Somerv:ille Burpitt Isaiah, farmer Knapton Jas. Geo. farmer & coal mer Colquhoun William, Kiama house Butt Clement, timber merchant Knapton Samuel, farmer Evance Devereux Alfred R., F.R.G.S. CharIton Hy. bricklayer &; stonemason Longman George, farmr.Marvin's fnn Devereux house Collins Lawrence, blacksmith Lush John, boot maker & postmaster Glover Rev. George M.A. Vicarage Collins WaIter, florist March Henry, farmer &; shopkeeper Hannam Mrs Eavis Thomas, carpenter Meaden .A.nn(Mrs.),farmer & landowner Hindley Edmund Samuel Edwards Charles, butcher Miles Thomas, accountant & assistant Maggs Oliver, Bullpits Farthing WaIter, rope &; twine maker overseer for the parish of Bourton MarrioU Ed. Ezra, Brunswick house Hannam Charles, farmer, Manor farm, Mitchell James, farmer Miles Mrs. The Poplars 'Vest Bourton Pitman James, shoe maker Millard Mrs Harris Andrew, brick maker Rabbitts Edmund, farmer Moore Robert Hindley Edmund Samuel, engineer, Roberts Thomas, farmer Roberts Thomas millwright,iron founder,boiler maker Taylor Harry, coal merchant Terrell William Henry, Highfield ho & electrical engineer, Bourton Tucker Joseph, organ builder Tucker Samuel foundry; show rooms, II Queen Vic- Walton In. &; Co. general &; furnishing COMMERCIAL. toria street, London E C. ironmongers & general warehouseBartlett Benjamin Pope M.RC.S sur- Holt John; good accommodation for men; &; at Mere; Maiden Bradley & geon, &; medical officer & public vac- travellers; well aired beds; Red Sedgehill, Wilts. See advertisement cinator, 2nd district, Mere union, & Lion hotel Willis Charles, farmer &; landowner 13RADFORD AB:BAS is a parish on the riveT Yea, -and the borders of Somersetshire, I mile east from Yeovil .Junction station on the London and South Western railway, 4 south-west from Sherborne and IIS from London, in the Northern division of the county, petty sessional division, hundred and union of Sherborne, -county court district of Yeovil (Sherborne portion), 1lll'chdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The -church of St. Mary is an ancient structure (}f stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aiides and south porch, with an emba·ttled western tower with pinnacleSl and a peal of 6 bells: the roof was entirely restored in 18go at g, cost of £1,700: there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1579. The livzng is a vicarage, with the rectory of Clifton Maybank annexed, average tithe rentcharge £299, joint gross yearly value £424, net £282, with 38 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Winchester College, and held since 1886 by the Rev. Gordo()n Bolles Wickham M.A. of New College, Oxford. There is a oharity of £2 12S. yearly for bread. Albert (la,yton esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clay and sand; SIllbsoil, cIai}'". The inferior oolite a.t Bradford Abba.s is very rich in gasteropods. The chief crops are oats, wherut and barley. The area is 1,216 acres; rateable value, £3,251; the population in 1891 'W'BIS 523. Wyke is I mile ea.st. Parish Olerk, Henry Arnold. Post Office. Jacob Wills, lSub-p(}stmast.eT. Letters arrive through Sherborne at 8.20 a.m. &; 4 p.m.; dispatched 'lilt 9 a.m. &; 5.15 p.m. PostaJ ordeN are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order office is at Yetminster & telegreph office is at Nether Compton Here are two foundation schools, built in 1856, for 140 children; average attendance, 130; supported by distinct funds, arising from land &; railway funds, but united in operation in one building; Walter Walker, master

DmECTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. BRANKSEA. 33 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Clayton Albert J.P RidDut Mrs Wickham Rev. G. Bolles M.A. (vicar) COMMERCIAL. Dawe Joseph, Rose &; Crown P.B Paul Waiter, farmer Jeans Rbt. carpenter to A. Clayton esq Paul WaIter Wyatt, farmer King J ames, farmer &; lime burner PiU John, shoe maker Lang Uriah &Sons, carpenters Walker Waiter, assistant overseer Lush William, blacksmith Whittle T. J. farmer &; miller (water) Arnold Hy. shoe maker &; parish clerk .'atch Joseph, baker Wills Jacob, shopkeeper, Post office BRADFORD PEVERELL is a palI'ish and small sittings. The registe!l' dates' from the y,oor 1653. The village, very prettily situated in a vaUley on the river living is a rectory, rent charge £145, net yearly value Frome, I! miles south-east from GrimstDn station on about £100, including 47 acres of glebe, with residence. the Weymouth branch of the Great Western railmuy in the gift of Winchester College, andl held since 1893 and 3 north-west from Dorchester, in the Southern by the Rev. Philip Loder Cother M.A. of Jesus College, division of the county, hundred of St. George, petty Cambridge. Bradford PevereIl House is the residence of sessional division, union and county court district of Hasting~ Nathanie:h Middleton esq. D.L., J.P. who is Dorchester, ru:raJ. deanery of Dorchester (Dorchester lord of the manor, and with Alfred Pope esq. of Dorportion), arohdeaconry of Dorset alIld diocese of Salis- chester, Miss Ashley and .Algernon Brinsley Sheridan bury. The church of St. Mary, standing in the centre esq. of Frampton Court, the principa[ landDwners. The of the village, and rebuilt in 1850, in the Early English soil is chalk and graV'cl., The chief crops are corn. style, is a building of stone, consisting of chancel and The area is 2,700 acres; rateaible va;lue, £2,092; the mve, south porch, with western tower and s,pire con- population in 1891 was 368, employed chiefly in agritaining 3 bells: a :oorthern stained window bears the culture. coat of arms and motto of Bishop William of Wykeham : Muckleford is a hamlet, I mile north-west. Herethere is also some old gb,sSl in the chancel, and the is a. Mission Room built in 1.884. At Penn Hill, and on east window of three lights was restored chiefly from all the downs, aife numerous barrows, including Seaancient glwss from New College, Oxford: in the sDuth barrow. wall are two memarial windows to members of the Parish Clerk, Arthur Barrett. Middleton :liamily: In the tower is a marble tablet to Post Office.-Mrs. M.ary Butt, sub-postmistress. Letters·· the Rev. Middleton Onslow, and in the chancel one to illlI'rive from DorcheSlter at 5 a.m. &; 2.35 p.m. (callers the Rev. H. Blackstone Williams, former, rectors; there only); dispatched at 8.5 p.m. week days &; sundays. 1I1l"e two ta,blets, also to members of the Onslow family, Po!>tal orders are issued here, but not paid. Char-. under the tower at the west end of the church; a minster is the nearest money order &; telegraph... &tained window on the north side in memory of Lieut. office Edward WiIlliams, who feH in the SDudan war: an National School. (mixed), built in 1836 fOT 60 children;. organ wa,s erected in the yeal1' 1888: there are 150 average attendance, 30; Miss Kata Little, mistress PRIVATE RESIDEKTS. COMMERCIAL. Hicks Thomas, gamekeeper to H. N.. Cother Rev. P. Loder M.A. Rectory Barrett Arthur, blacksmith :Middleton esq Hawkins Mrs Brett Fanny (Mrs.), carpenter Northover Henry, grocer, Muckleford Hussey John Fraser, Quatrebras Foot Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper i:3tily Charles, farmer ~iddleton Hastings Burton J.P Gallop William, gardener to H. N. Tod Thos. Ford, farmer, Muckleford ~Iiddleton Hastings Nathaniel D.L., Middleton esq Travel'S Henry, farm bailiff to H. N•. J.P. Bradford Peverell house Hansford William, dairyman Middleton esq BRADPOLE is a parish, partly within the borough vicarage, given by the late vicar, a reading room of Bridport, situated between the rivers Brit and Asker, and libr:alrY, in memory of the late W. E. Forster, was. 5 miles south from Beaminster, in the Western division built in 1889 by public subscription. In the village,. of the county, hundred of Beaminster Forum, Bridport at St. Andrew's Well, there is a, substantia~ building, . union, petty oossional division and county court dis.trict, used for parochial purposes, and called St. Andrew's rural deanery of Bridport (Bridport portion), arch- house. There is no manor. The principal !landowners dOOJConry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The are Mrs. Way ond Mr. Compton. The Knap, a handchurch of the Holy Trinity is a building of stone, rebuilt some house, built after designs by C. V. Johnson esq. in 1845-6, in the Early English style, consisting of architect, and situate on an eminence near the church, is chancel, nave, north aLsle, south porch, with tower the residence of Mrs. BrDadley and A. M. Broadley esq. and !lIl spire containing a peal of 5 bells: there is a The soil is SIlndy; subsoil, C:ay. The chief crops are· carved stone pulpit, given by .Alexander A. M. Broadley wheat, oa.ts and some land in pasture. The area is. esq. in 1888 to commemorat-e the jubilee of the late 998 acreS'; rateable value, £7,773; and the population. OalIlon Braadley's ordination: there are also in the in 1891 was 1,641, including 131 officers and inmates challlcel two handsome stained windows to the late Canon af the Bridport workhouSle; the population included Broadley and a memorial brass recording the rebuilding in the municipal borough of Bridport in 1891 was 864. of the church md the chapel of ease of St. Andrew (The names of the residents in the borough are in..... and the erection of the vicarage house, the schools se,rted under Bridport.) and the Forster institute; during- his incumbency Sexton, George Crew. 1844-94: there are 400 sittings. The register dates Post Office, William Gibbs Forsey, sub-postmaster from the year 1695. The living is 181 discharged Letters are received through Bridport, which is the. viC'llil'age, average tithe rent-charge £198, gross yearly nearest money IOrder &; telegraph office, at 8.30 a.m. value £264, net £196, including IS acres of glebe, with &; 5 p.m.; and dispatched 61t 6.15 p.m. daily, sundays. residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, Bnd held excepted. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid since 1894 by the Rev. Henry Cromwell Beckwith Field County Police Station, Herbert Vacher, constable M.A. of Trinity Coillege, Cambridge. In the church- National School (boy.s &; girls), built in 1849 since. yard wall is a white marble tablet, erected in 1888 by then enlail'ged for about ISO children; aVelfage attend- .A.•. M. Broadley esq. to call to remembralllce the birth ance,. 100; Mark Edwin J ohnson, master in thiJs village, in 1818, of the late Right Hon. W. E. Church of England School, Pymore (mixed), built in Forster; the cottage in which he VfaoSl born is still 1870 for 80 children; average attendance, SI; :Miss standing and bears his name. On a site adjoining the .Alice F. Garner. mistres>s COMMERCIAL. Legg .A1bert, farmpr, Pymore Chard S. C. &; Sons, bakers &; grocers Legg William, boot &; shoe maker BroodJey A. M. (barrister at law), Conway Henry Samuel, butcher Locock William, farmer The Koo.p Cook Jas. landscape gardnr. &; florist Marsh Henry, farmer, Watford farm. Broadley Mrs. The Knap Crabb H. &; A.thatchers,Beaminster rd Marsh John, farmer Field Rev. Henry Cromwell Beekwith Farnham J.beer rtlr.&; shpkpr.Pymore Marsh Thomas, farmer M.A. The Vicarage Follett Wm. G. J. farmer, Pymore Marsh Thomas, jun. farmer Greening John Foord Anna (Miss), grocer Norman James, King's Head p.H Harris Richard Forsey W. G. machine Etter, Post off Parsons Thomas, shoe maker Hodder Mrs George Alfred, grocer & baker Patten Isaac, farmer, Forster cottageMartin Mrs. Minie villa Gibbs Houlton, farmer Reading Room &; Library Paul Mrs. Gore house Hansford George, dairy farmer, New Rendall Charles William, farmer Peach George house, Mang-erton lane Samways George, butcher RaIls Richard Cobden, Fern vi:la Hansford J.dairy frmr.Whitehouse frm Stone Thomas, carpenter &; joiner Suttill Henry Squire, Pymore house Hoare William John, boot &; shoe ma Way John William, farmer Titball Mrs Lacey Frederick, Boot &; Shoe inn BRANKSEA, an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1855 diviSlion of the county, petty sessional division, county from the parish of Studland, is a piobure5que island COUT't distIuot and union of Wareiham, rural deanery of situated a~ the entramce of PooIe harbour, in the Eastern Whitchurch (Poole portion), archdeaconry of Dorset ar,d DORSET 3

< 34 BRANKSEA. DORSETSHIRE. [ KELLY'S doiocese Off S'aM~bury, and is the pr()pert,y of Caop'J:,a.in Ken- Sir Ohristoplher Ratton, w>ho ca.used greaJt BnDoyan'Ce to neth R. Ballifour; it is about 5 miles, in cireumference the inha'biltlmts of Poole by ,searehing and levying dues and c-on:t'aoiIl!s valuaible clay beds (one, of wlhite clay, being from pass<ingships; during the OiVlil wars the P,arlia.- nearly 50 fe~ thick). The commum.ioat~on wi,th the moent gave the command of the casl\!le to the gov,emor of i.sland is by 'St:ealn launch from Poo~e harbour. The Poole; in 1722 the calS,ble ceased ilio be a fortreSls, as c'hureh .of St. Mlary is a buildling 0[ stone, in tfue Early Auditor Bemon boq,ght ,the island and made i,t his resiDecorated: st,y'le and fitbed up entirely with old oak, the dence, tlhe people of Poole oomplalinJing to King George roof being the ancient one fu'iom OrO's!by HMI, formerly H. of the ross of thoor defence. 001 Waugh, who purt'he counoil chamber ood ch'<lpel 0[ lliiClhard n.: it con- chased the island in 18:;2, added the Tudor Gothic froIJIt siSlts of o'hanceil, nave and nor:th transept, with lofty em- in Portland stone and other ibU!ildcilngs on the north side, battled wes'bero tower contlaiining 4 btils: the nave ~s includ'ing -the tower,s Ilmd turrebs. rrhe castle was in seated with carved oak ,benches WIitlh poppy head ends: 1888 thoroughly restored by the llalte owner, the Rt. the windows are all staoined: an elegant screen at the Hon. G. A. F. Oavendish BeIlltrinJck P.C., M.P. who also west end 'separaltes the nave from the tower e1ltm'11ce: em'bel1lished. the place with & 'Profusion of Ita.lian s,culpture tlhere are 100 s~t1Jin:gs. 'I1he register dates from the yeM' and other workis of art ooEected fuom fOTeign lands. 185'5. The living ~s & vicarage, g-ross yearly value £110, Onut landed on the island in 1015, and in the reign of net £40, in the gift of /the Rev. John Prior Farm'er M.A. Henry H. Q chapel and hermJiltage were built here by the The village clUlb was started in '1893 !by Capt. K. R. .AJbbot 'Of Ceme. The area. of the parish is 1,000 acres; Balfour, ~or the ,convenrl.e«lJCe of the inhlllbiltan'tts of the the population in 1,891 was 122. istand. Branksea Casl1Jle, which is the seat of Captlaiin Pal"ish Clerk, .A1fu'ed Barnard. Kennehh R. BaUour, amd the dhuroh are c,t the easte:rn extl'oouity of the i!iamd, 'Surrounded by plantatlions of Wall Letter Box cleared at 12·30 p.m. &; 5.30 p.m pines. The massUV'e ,sqU8Il'Ie brick toWel' of the casilile with Lertters through Poole, whiclh is the nearest money order some lower wings wa.s built in! the reign of Henry VIII. & telegraph ()ffice, arrtive at 8.30 a.m. &; 2·30 &; ~I'54!5), arnd the castile for,tified two yeam later; in Eliza- 6·30 p.m blllth'sreign it WIllIS repaired ami t'he defenoes NaJtional School, for 40 children; average albtendance, 36; -strengthened, the Ma)"OT Olf Poole 'being '<iw'Ointed· keeper; ,supported in part by Capt. K. R. BaLfour; Mrs. Marsh, in 1576 the Queen grmteid the keepli.ng of the castle to mi,stress .Abbott Rev. William Martin (curate) Branksea cB,stle; & NavM &; Military Fall James, gamekeeper ..llalfour Kenneth Robert (C8ipt. Royal & Ca,valry clubs, London W Fyfe David, head gardener Dragoons & Adjt. Dorset &; Hamp- Barnard Alfred, steward to Capt. K. Rogers A. estate carpenter shire (C'<ixabineers) Yeomanry), R. Balfour • BRANKSOME and BRANKSOME PARK. BRANKSOME, a civil parish, constituted in 1894, out of Bodley and Garner, and at present consists of chancel, Kinson, comprising part of Branksome Park, and the dis- with south chapel, four bays of the nave, aisles, organ tricts of Heatherlands and Newtown, chiefly on the Ashley chamber, and vestries; the tracery of the windows is very .- and Poole roads,adjoining Westbourne and Parksoone, and fine, that of the large east window being especially elaborin the Eastern division of the county, Cogdean hundred, ate; there is a carved oak chancel screen extending across · Poole union and county couTt district, Wimborne petty the end of the side chapel; the church at present sessional division, rural d'eanery of Whitchurch (Poole affords about 600 ,sittings. The population of .All Saints in portion), ,archdelllconry of Dorset and dlocese of SaJiSlbury. 1'891 was 2,158. · The Branksome Urbll.lIl Disbuct Council, of 12 membeT's, Post &; M. O. 0., S. B. &; Annuity 0& Insurance Office, was 'COIlJS'tJituited under the "LO'Cal Government Act, .AJslhJey road. Henry J. Hug'hes, ,sulb-postmaslter. Let- · 31894." ters arrive from Parksoone R.S.O. at 8 a.m. 2 &; 8 p.m. &; dispaJbched aJt 8 & 11.30 a.ID. & 2.15 & 8 p.li. REAffiERLANnS eoclesiasticoo parish was formed The nearest telegraplh. office is at Parkstooe · ,January 22, 1,886, out of Gr.elllt Canford; the church of Post, M. O. &; T. 0., S. B. & AImuity &; Insurance Office, · '8't. John the Evamgelist, !in .AJshley road, erected in 1881, Poole 1'10ad, Bl'alIlksome.--lWestOlll Seymour, sub-posi- 'is a pladn brick buildJing in the Early English sbyle, master. iLetiters armve from Bournemouth at 8 a.m. . consisting of dhMliOOl alI1d nave: there are 300 sitbtings. 2 &; 7 p.m.; dQSlpaJtched at 8.55 &; 11.55 a.m. 3.35 & · 'Th'e register dates from the year 1'881. The living is a 7.55 p.m. Wall LEYtter Box, coNecbion 8.30 a..m. &; "VJcarage, [lfeJt yearly value £100, !in the gili of Lord Wim- 7.30 p.m.; ,sundays, 8.30 p.m bOmle, and held since 1886 by the Rev. Chrisitopher Post, M. O. &; T. 0., S. B. & Anmuity &; Insurance Office, · Harmer BousdieJd 'M.A. of Que,en's eoUege, Oxford. Heatherlands. Edward Godwin, sub-pOlsit'ma:ster. L~- The church· of St. Olement's, Newtown, a ch,a,pel 0If ibers arrive from Parrkstone at 7 a.m. 1.45 & 8.30 p.m. '.ease, was !buEt in 1,889 by LoT'd Wim1:>orne, ait a cost of &; dispa.tlChed at 8.30 a.m. 12 noon, 2.30, 7 &; 8.30 p.m £2,000: iit is of ,gt00li8 in the Early English style and Posit, M. O. O. &; S. B. &; Annuity & InsuraIllCe Office, · 'ConsiSlts of chancel, [lfav,e and turret oonltaining one bell: Newtown.-Arthur William Head, sub-posltmaster. ~- · 'illler,e ar,e siltmn,g-s for 250. The Rev. J,osep'h Duncan ters arrive at 8.30 &; 3 p.m. from Parkstone R.S.O.; - Dathan M.A. of Cavendislh OOllIege, Orumfbridg-e, has been dispatched at 12 noon &; 6.45; sundays, deiJJivery only, , cnralte-in-chaI'lge siIllce 1892. At Branm!rome, ~s a Baprt:ti.st 8.30. N ea,rest wlegraph office is aJt Parkstone · chapel, al00 a haN !for Plymouth Brethren and Salvat,ion Wall Letter Boxes cleared 31t:- Army Barr'aJcks. At Newtown is ,the Pool~ Rural Dist·rict AlbeTlt road, A:shley road, 8 &; 11.35 a.m. & 2.55, 7.20 '<Oouncil SaruiJtary Hos'Pit11l1, opened in 1'889, wit,h beds for & 8.5 p.m 7 pl1ltuernts. Drain pipe,s and bricks aTe extensively ml1lde Albert road, RooltheTl1:andis, 8.30 &; n.45 a.m. & 2 &; in Ithe parish. The populatlion of Hoo!therlamds in 1891 7.10 p.m.; Isund/alys, 8.30 a.m ·was 2,513, and of Brwsome UIlb1a.n Distmct 6,572. .'Branksome Park (avenue), 9.10 a.m. 12.10 DJopn, 4.10 BRANKSOME PARK is a rising residential neighbour- I&i 7.50 p.m.; sundays, '8·55 a.m !fhood,in the parishes of Parkstone and Branksome(formerly Klinso!ll: P,ot1:lery, 8 & n·30 a.m. 6.40 p.m.; sundays, Kinson), adjoining Bournemouth, Hants, of which it is 9 a.m ·virtually an extension on the west, having a station called Branksome Urban District Gouncil. Branksome on the direct Bournemouth branch of the l\Iee1ls at 3 Tennyson buildings, Branksome, on 1st tues. London and South Western railway. The ecclesiastical in every month, 7 p.m parish of All Saints was formed out of the above parishes Clerk, W. iH. Curtis, High street, Poole in 1878. The church of .All Saints, erected in 1867, is a Treasurer, H. Meredith, Nat. Provincial Bank, Poole plain building of stone in the Early English style, con- ,Medlicall Offioer of Heatth, Jlames Slhuckibnrgh Stewart sisting of chancelj nave and organ chamber, with western L R C P & SIP k b 11 t t t . . b 11 th t f build' . . .. .. arr ,sltone e urre, con ammg one e; e cos 0 mg Surveyor & Sa.niItJary IDspector, S. J. Newman, 2 Tennychurch and vicarage and. of the endowment was defrayed SOD 'bUJildin'gs, .AJsihley road, Brarnktsome by the late Henry Bury esq. of Branksome Tower and 0 11 J Fin.dla others; there are 300 sittings, all free. The register 0 ector, ames I, ySOD dates from the year 1877. The living is a vicarage, net Board Schools. yearly value £290, with residence, in the gift of the Bury Under Kinson School Board. family, and held since 1881 by the Rev. Charles Goddard IDnson iROOltIh, IbUlilt in 1874, for 104 c1hildren; in 1880 Doyne M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge. ilihe ~c'hooQ wa:s transfeT'l'ed to the School board, when Boume Valley, adjoining Branksome Park, has the Illddlitional space WlllS provided !for 164 children, aJt Q Church of St. Aldhelm (a chapel of ease to All Saints), cost of £1,670, & in 1'889 it was enlarged &will now hold erected in 189:1-4, a structure of ashlar work in bath stone 500 children; average a1l:JtendJance, 150 iboy;s, 140 girls in the later Decorated style, the architects being Messrs. &; 200 inlfants; Frank Adams, master; Miss \fane New-

DIRECTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. BItANKSOME. 35 National, :Bourne Valley (mixed), 1880, for 170 children r average attendance, 200; Infants', opened 1886, for 100; average attendance, 130; Miss Eliz-abeth 'Barker, mistress; Miss Harriett Lever, infants' mistress row. linistress; Miss Caroline A. Arnold, infan'ts' mistress Healtlherlarrllds, Ibut in 11891-3, !for 500 oehlildren; average attendlance, 120 rboY'S, I 10 ~'1"ls &; 190 infants; Oharleos Soutlhwick, maiiter; Miss- Elizabeth Leaver, mistre~; Mrs. Mary .A.nnie S.oulthwick, infants' mistress Branksome Railway Station, , station mas-ter ERANKSOME PARK. Hadow Misses, StreatJey Wells Robert, Babbicomb (Marked t Letters through Parkstone Halford John W. Sunny lawn Wheaton A. W. Larkbere R.S.O.) Halls Rev. George M.A. Kilbride Whittle Wm. A. Eaglehurst, PooIe rd ( M k d th t . P k t . h Hands Mrs. Foleshill Wickham :Miss, Gresford, The Avenue . t~ e ~sd ar~ l~ a~ sBone kaTIs Harris James, !sea villa Williams Daniel,Brandon lea,Poole rd e remam er emg m ran some tHarrison Capt. Horace S. Aston Grays Willis George, Florida parish.) tHayward R Cambermere, Ashley rd Wilson Mrs. Isca, Poole road . PRIVATE RESlDEXTS. tHeysham. George William Mounsey, Windsor Miss~s, Gatcombe Aldndge Thos. A. Rowley, Poole road Grata quils Wyatt Mrs. Slmrole, Tower road Andrew J., M.D. Rahere, The Avenue tHicks George Tempest, Camelot tYoung Rev. Fredk. B.A. CoombePyne Andrews .Tames R. (chief paymaster tHinder Mrs. Arlington, Ashley road Young George W. Branksome manor RN.), Wivenhoe Hiscock George, builder Young William, Eversleigh,TheAvenue tAshton Charles, Redlands Hitchcock H. K., M.D.,J.P.Christowell Atfield Miss, Cranford Howard Joshua Elsinore COMMERCIAL. Banks Robert Y. Foxhayes tHyde Mrs. Wiiderton (Marked thus t receive their letters Bartram George N. Woodlyn Jackson Mrs. Goothland, Tower road through Bournemouth.) Bassill Frederick W. Aynill Jakeman Miss, Lassington, Tower rd tAitken Thomas G.chemist, CashPrice tBelben Thomas, Hoo Meavey Johnstone John, Branksome court pharmacy; all goods sold at store Bell T. G., M.D. Carfax, Poole road tKellaway F.Jas. Daisymoor, Ashley rd prices; 4 Colonnade, Ashl~y road Blackley Percival~ ~ibernia, Poole rd Kemp-Welch Mrs. Dinmore, Westbrne Alien E. Fredk. builder, Ashley road Blake Thomas Wilham, Hurstbourne tKershaw Wm. Bowden ho. Ashley rd Allner Alice (Miss), draper, Ashley rd Boeslager Baron Von, Nazdar, The tKirk Mrs. Woodlands, Constitution hI Allner Edward J. builder, Ashley Avenue Laidman :Mrs. Bonallie tower house, Ashley road tBoniface Miss, Melton Lancey Edwin, Teneriffe, Poole road Andrews Martha (Mrs.), laundress, Boodle Rev. R. Geo. M.A. Ashford Langden George, Branksome gate The Crescent, Newtown Boraston Mrs. Traumere Leach George, Amesbury Archer Frederick, grocer, Newtown Bourne Saml. John, Be~grano, Poole rd Leach :Mrs. Kingston Baggs F. C. jobbing grdnr. Ashley rd tBrock Alexander Melville,Glendronach tLeeston-Smith Mrs. Perran lodge Barnes H. F. J. house agnt.Ashley rd Brook Alfred B. Langdenholme LeO'h Mrs. Pennington, Gladwyn, Bastable H. boot mak€r,Constitution hI Brook Miss, Millias Tower road Bell Elizabeth (Miss), apartments, Brook William D. Rosebank Lonnen Edwin BOylil, Glen Ormond, Sunny bank, Ashley road Buckley James, Tintern Branksome park tBell T. G., M.D. surg.Carfax,PooIe rd Burrows William H. Eisentein Lorry David, Catmas Bird J. Sea View hotel, Constitution hI tBurton Edgar, New hall Mangin R A. Ashton court Blackaller William H.com &; cider mer. tButler Wm. Chas. Elm vil. Ashley rd tManley Mrs. The Grove 6 Tennyson bULdings, Ashley road Chadwick Mrs. Sweden How Mannell John, Thanet Blake Thomas William, surgeon, tChild Mrs. Therapia May Mrs. Dilkusha Hurstbourne, Avenue road tCholmondeley Lady Marcie, Holly 10 Mayo Henry, Madeley, Poole road Bond Charles, bricklayer, Sea View rd Clark Mrs. Coombehurst, The Avenue Morgan Richard Cope, Llanover Budden John, brick maker Close Mrs. J. W. St. Malo tMorres Mrs. Yaverlands Budden John, farmer tCopeman Edward., Albany house Newell Miss, 2 Elsie villas tBunday William, florist, Ashley road Cornish Vaughan, Branksome cliff Oakley John, Riversleigh Burton W.marine store dlr.SeaView rd Corser George, Cossmore OsIer Frank, Avonbourne, Poole road Bush Tom, butcher, Ashley road tCreedon Miss, Gowrie Parham Mrs. Chupra 10. Poole road tCaws Henry, carpenter, Ashley road Crowther Henry, Swinton Petch William, Western house Chaldecot Geo. blacksmith, Ashley rd tCurtis Alfd. Glen cot. Sea. View road Phibbs Major R R. Brackloonagh Chesterton Eros. grocers &; drapers, tDavis Alfred Isaac, Kormansfield Phillips Miss, Park view, Poole road Ashley road' tDenny Charles, Berkeley towers tPike Mrs. Sandalwood Chitty John, newsagent, The Lilacs, tDenny Miss, Sea View road Poole Eenjamin, Haselmere, Poole rd Ashley road tDickinson Charles A. W. Westlands tPowys :Miss, Yaverlands Clark W. &; Son, furn. dlrs. Ashley rd Dobson Charles, Dromonby Princess Misses, Norland Clark 'William, tailor, 3 Victoria ter. Doyle Capt.B.W.Montreux,The Avenue tRichlll'dson Noble, Bramley dene Ashley road tDoyne Rev. Clliarles Goddard M.A. tRogers Rev. Gerlll'd Salton M.A. The Collins B. & Son, grocers, provision All Saints Vicarage Old Ride merchants &; dealers in corn, meal, Drury Mrs. Rennock grnge.TbeAvenue Rogers Rev. Wm. Moyle, Pine dene flour &c.Sea View rd.Constitution hI Drysdale Mrs. St. Catherine's, Poole rd Roker M. J. Snowdenham, The Avenue Constitution Hill & Newtown Liberal Dyson Rev. J. Walbrook Sanctuary Mrs. Vernon Club (Robert Bishop. sec.; Jesse Elbershaw R. J.Headinglen,TheAvenue Scott' Arthur, Sunnyside Rose, manager), Sea View road Elliott Thos. Maisonette, The Avenue Shakespeare W. Mylor house Cornelius- William John, blacksmith &; Evans The Misses, Lingfield grange, tShand :Mrs. Coombe wood wheelwright, Ashley road The Avenue Sharp William L. Heatberdene Cornutt' Raymond W. grocer, Ashley Fasnacht George E. Caxton Sibley Miss, Gortlee house, Ashley road tFellowes Gen. P. Hy. RM. Harwood Slade Phillip, Treberrie Cox Alice (Miss), fruiterer, Ashley rd Fellowes Rev.Henry (rector of Wallop), Smith Arthur, The Whare CoxE.nurseryma~Reathfield,Ashleyrd Torridon tStocker Miss, Forest road Cox F.W. dairy,s Colonnade, Ashley rd Fenn William, 1 Elsie villas tStrachey Lieut.-Col. Hy. Basing ho tCox Hiram,Woodman tav~rn,Poole rd tFinlayson J.Heatherland vil.Ashley rd tSturdy Thomas, The Wick tCribbF.haulier &coal mer.frincess rd tFlamsteed Mrs. Wyle Swan Mrs. Westerkirk Diamond Joseph, musical instrument tFletcher Charles, Tower house tTarleton Miss, Holly lodge dealer. Ashley road . Forfar William Bentinck, Trelawne Telford William, Kenilworth Direct Meat Supply Co. (Edwm H. Fowler William, Silverdale Terry Edward, Cerne Abba9 Hann, mangr.), butchers, I Tenny. tFox Daniel Makinson C.E. Birkdale tThompson Arthur BaBy, Sumatra son buildings, Ashley road tFrampton Albt. Tom, Balcombe hurst Tite John. Montagoue house Draper .Wi~iam .Henry, .stone mason, Giller Frands, Ingomar tTollemache Hon.R Ranulph Carteret, ConshtutlOn hill . Goddard Rev. William Ward M.A. Glen wood Dunster &; Co. butchers, dealers In (curate of St. Peter's), San Salvador, Townsend Mrs. Regnum Canterbury mutton &; beef, 2 ColonTower road Tucker St.. G. Goschen, The Avenue nadJe,.A.sWey rd. ; &; o,tEase1eigh,Hnts Gold Mrs. Heslington, Poole road Turner Mrs. Merivold, The Avenue Frampt:<)ll A1bert T.builders' merchant tGrantham-Hill Stanley Grantham, Turner Mrs. Stanley glen! PooIe road & brICk maker, Ashl~y road. Forest lodge tTuthill A., M.B. Montpelier,Ashley rd Furber James, blacksmlth,SeaVlew rd Grew Samuel Valescure tVivianS.E.Channel vil.Constitution hl tGeorgeCharles,nurseryman,Ashley rd GriffithsMrs. TempleDinsley,Avenue rd Warmington E. Dunsley Good Geo. carpenter, Granville road DORSET 3-

36 BRANKSOME. DORSETSHIRE. [ KELLY'S BOURNE VALLEY. tHarris Thomas H. grocer & china & Smith Emily (Mrs.), dress maker, 13 Wheeler In.& Hy.gasfitters,Victoria rd glass dealer, Poole road Ashley road Wilkes Elijah, coach builder; light Harvey R.& Son, grcrs. Constitutn.hl Smith Emma (Miss), draper,S Tenny- carts & vans built to order &; reHead M. (Miss), shopkpr. Sea View rd son buildings, Ashley road paired, Glencoe road Hoare Charles, shopkeeper, Rossmore Stacey Albert,chimney swpr.Ashley rd Working Men's Conservative Club (J. tHoare M. A. (Mrs.), shopkpr.Poole rd Stembridge &; Sons, house painters, W. Street, secretary &; manager). Hughes Henry John, chemist, zTenny- Ashley road Victoria road son buildings, Ashley road Tilley Jas. watchmaker, Ashley road Yeatman Sidney, carpenter, Albert rd tHunt John, contractor, Poole road Tucker Philip, gasfitter, Plaxtol, NEWTOWN tHutchings William, grocer, 3 Colon- Ashley road . . nade, Ashley road Tuthill Alfred M.B. surgeon, Mont- Budden George Thos. Hawarden VIlla Ind~pendent Order of Foresters(Brank- pellier, Ashley road Coates :Mrs. The Crescent some Court) (Wm. Martin, sec.), Ware Georgina (Mrs.), coffee house, Dathan ~ev. Joseph Duncan ~.A. Zion Coffee house, Ashley road Ashley roa,d (curate/n.charge of St. Clement s) Johnston Peter, chimney sweeper, Watkins ehas. refreshment rooms, 7 Rogers 1hlham Henry, The Crescent Brook road, Ashley road Tennyson buildings, Ashley road Wheadon John, The Crescent Jones Sidney, stationer &; tobacconist, Watkins John, boot ma. Ashley road Young James, The Crescent 7 Tennyson buildings, Ashley road tWay Thomas John, livery stables, COMMERCIAL. Jones W. E. & Son, blacksmiths, Ashley road Abbott Wm. farmer, Alderney cottage Ashley road Webber Joseph, shopkpr. Ashley rd Andrews Martha (Mrs.), laundress, Kempster R. pork butcher, Ashley rd Young George, stationer, Bristol ho. The Crescent Kerley Hy. corn dealer, AsWey road Ashley road Archer Frederick, grocer Kerley Henry, tobacconist & hair Young William, draper, 6 Colonnade, Banten Charles, contractor &; brick & dresser, Ashley road Ashley road tile manufacturer Kinson Technical Committee & School Brown Samuel James, Pottery hotel of Art (Charles Southwick, sec.), HEATHERLANDS. Budden George Thomas, contractor &; Tennyson buildings, Ashley road Barnes Richard, Hawksworth gravel merchant, Hawarden viila Knight Fredk. Chas. grocer, Newtown Bousfield Rev. Chrstphr. Harker M.A. Burridge Edward G. baker Lawrence George, oil &; colourman, (vicar of St. John the Evangelist) Carter William, proprietor of Kinson Cleveland terrace Mothersole Alner, White Colne pottery & the Brick & Tile works, Lawrence Richard, beer retailer,Cleve- ~Iothersole Charles, Livermore Hamworthy junction land terrace, Ashley road Vanner Isaac Thomas, Eton villa Davis George, grocer Lee George, haulier, The Crescent COMMERCIAL. Fancy Gideon, farmer Lucas In. W. builder, Princess road Allner Robert, builder, Victoria road Head Arthur William, grocer Lucas Mary (Mrs.), refreshment rros. Booker Rchd. nurserymn.The Vineries Hibberd Job, brick maker 1 Colonnade, AsWey road Brompton Robert, shopkeeper Kinson Pottery Co. & the Brick &; Tile Kewman S. J. surveyor &; sanitary Bug\len George, watchmaker works, Hamworthy Junction; Wm. inspector to Branksome urban dis- Cake Edward J. carpenter Carter, proprietor trict council, 3 Tennyson buildings, Cole Elizabeth P. (Mrs.), laundry Phillips Freeland, general dealer Ashley road Cole Henry, coal dealer Poole Rural District Council Sanitary Norrish Edward, grocer, 4 Tennyson Cutland W. &:, Son, boot makers Hospital (Hy. Geo. Nippord, supt) buildings, Ashley road Drysdale Alfd.Edwd.fruitr.Victoiia rd Rabbetts George, boot maker tOsment George, butcher, Poole road Hennington Wm. gardener &; nrsrymn Rogers George, tea dealer, grocer &; Osment John, boot & shoe dealer, 6 Fort Benjamin, boot & shoe maker provision merchant Tennyson buildings, Ashley road Godwin Edwin, grocer &; ironmonger, Skinner Samuel, beer retailer Ould Samuel H. grocer, Ashley road Post office Powell John, brick maker Grabb Rchd.baker & grocr.Victoria rd Price Geo. Joseph, outfitter,Ashley rd Jobbing & Sons, house painters COMMERCIAL. Roberts Frank, china & glass ware- Knight William Charles, tobacconist, tBaggs Felix Charles, beer retailer house, Victoria terrace, Ashley rd Victoria road tCross Herbert, grocer Robeson Geo. house painter, Ashley rd Mansell Charles, laundry tFoster John, coffee tavern Rose Bros. postmasters, Ashley rd.; Milledge Alfd. grocer &; beer retailer tHallett Henry, refreshment house & at Westbourne Newberry Edward, blacksmith tHardy Frederick, horse dealer Rose WaIter, estate agent, Ashley rd Orchard James, shopkeeper tHouse Geo. Jas. grocer &; beer retlr Saunders Alfd. J. R. dairy, Ashley rd Phillips Ernest, baker tJames Albert, grocer &; beer retailer Selby Emily (Mrs.), baker &; confec- Rohetter Aug. hair dresser,Victoria rd tKing Frederick, dairyman tioner, Cleveland terrace, Ashley rd Rogers Robert C. bricklar.:er t:;\Ierrett Elizabeth T. (Mrs.), dairy Sharp Henry Jones &; Co. Limited, Rose Henry, haulier tSt. Aldhelm's Coffee Tavern (G. Bourne Valley Pottery Co. Ashley rd Squire Henry Thomas, shopkeeper King, manager) Sheppard Wm.Arth.baker, Sea View rd Squires George, baker & beer retailer twoolfrey George, grocer & beer retlr LITTLE EREDY, see Lit'tle'bredy. LONG EREDY, see Longbredy. BRIDPORT. BroDOORT is a seaport, m'llnD.cipaJ ib<Jrough and market 1Wd woo town,. bead! of So COU'llty court distriC't, and railwtay statlion, in t1he Western divillsion of the ooun:l:!y. hundred of SlturmrinElter, though locally in the hundred of Wllli'tc'hurch Oalllonicorum, rural deanery of Bridiport (Brid'poI"t pol'tiO'll!), lU1dhdeaooo.ry ()If Dorset allld diooese ()If SaJi,Sbury, 1'5 mliles west from DOl'clhes'ter, 34 from Taun.' ron, 6 'south from Beaminster, 9 east from Lyme Regis, 2r nortJh-west from WeymoUlth, r35 by road and r63 by 'l."Mlway from London: the Grelalt W,eSlte'r,n railway has a brandh IfrOllll Maliden Newton to tJhis town and the West bay, which gives acceSls to Dorohester I()n the Lond'On and South Western railway and Yoovil OIl! the Great Western, tlhus $!'ivmg ttwO' distinct H'Il1eS of communicatioo. with the metropollis and other rparts of the kingdom: tJhere are three stJarlJions, viz. Brlidrpo:rttJ, <the Ea,st ,street 'stalbion and one ait the haTlbour caJled West bay. Th'is place takes its name f'l'om the river Brit, on t'he bank of which it stands. This was a place of some impanance in the time of Ed'ward rtlh-e Confessor, and is mentioned in Domesday Bo'Ok as having a. mint and ecclesiastical establishment: it was made a borough in the reign of lffelllI'y Ill.: its c1harter underwent various alteram<ms during subsequent reigns. The governing cha~!ter, prior to the Municipal Act, was thalt granted by Oharlas ll.: ist now comprises, m add~tion to the ancient borough, par-moos of tlhe parishes 0If Allington, Bradilole, Waldtiilch, Botlhenhamilton, ~urto!ll-Brad!stbock and Symondslbury. '.m1e t.own is dividedJ !into ,two wards, the North and Sout1h, and< governed by a mayor, six atdermen and eigthteeen councillors, wlho aJso ac1J as the urban sanitary authority. The borough has a commission of the peace, several justices of the peace and formerly returned 'two mem(bel's to Parliament, !but these by "The iRepresentaticm of !tlhe People Ad, 1867," were reduced to one and ,by" The Redistribution of Seats Act, r885," the borough was dlisttflalllchri.sed. The town ~s situated in a felI'tiLe vaJe, !Surrounded by

DIRECTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. BRIDPORT. 37 biHs, having on tJhe weS'D the river Bride or Brit, and on 1633 by diflerent pel'Sons consists of four closes and the east the river Asker, over w:hi'ch are several bri<1ges; two orchard~ at Broad Oak; the proceeds are annually tlhese rivers unite a liittle below the town, which chiefly given to the poor. The malthouse are brewhouse :-In oonsi'sts of three Spa.cri.OUiS streets, cOnltainin'g handsome 1650 the corporation of Bridport laid out £180 in the modern houses, lighted with gas 'by a. company and we] purchase of certain premises comprising a malthouse and paved. Water is supplied to the ~nha'bitants by a. com- brewhouse ; a portion of this money was the gift of Mrs. pany from works -situated at Litton Oheney. Jane Napper; in 1865 these premises were sold, the The church of Sit. Mal1'y, ,enlarged and thoroughly re- purchase money invested in Oonsols and the proceeds stored ~!ll 1859-60, is a spacious cruciform structure ot are annually given in Christmas donations to the poor stone, chiefly in the very Ear~y Perpendicular style of The higher and lower almshouses' are under the control architectJure, cOIlisis·ting of c'hail1Jcel, nave with: north and o~ nine trustees. Jessope's gift IS a sm:111 annuity ldt souJth transepts partly Early English, aisles, and soulth In the tim.. of James I. PitAield's charIty was giv('n In oha.pel with a. square em'battled tower rising from the 1675 by Charles Pitfield, and consists of a parcel of land centre and crown-ed: with pinnacles, and oontainJing 8 called Thorncombe: from the proc'eeds of this charity bells: within. are some inteil"elSting monumMlts; one, a a number of penny loaves are distrihuted every SUl1day cross-legged effigy of a knight, siUppos'ed to represent one in Rrirlport church: a sermon is annually preached on of the De Ohideock fiaIDJily: th8l1'e tis a small mural tablet 'March 2nd, :llld !J. number of petticoats given to old in memory 0'£ Lieut. Coker, ()If 1J\oIappowder, killed at the ......omen and coats to old Il,en at that time: the total Bull hotel by one VenueI', an officer oIf tlhe Duke of Mon- income is £15 a year, as the estate was sold in 1763 mouth, .in the [Monmouth rabe'llion, 1685: the church subject to that rent~charge. A. charity of £100 invesLed oonltains 1,017 seats, Which aH become free at the final in Consols i81 the proceeds of the sale of a house left in ringiIlJg of ·the !bell. The register dates from the year the time of James I. for a widower and widow, and the 1660. !The liv::ing is a disclharged rectory, gross yearly dividend is dispensed by the churchwardens and overvalue £250, net £220, with ,reside.nce, in tlhe gift of the seers. Daniel Tayhr, in the time of Charles H. left. the Bishop of Salisbury, and held ,since 189'5 by the Rev. Bull inn, in East street, for the purpose of providing an Geo. Francis 'Hooper M.A. ()f Brasenose College, Oxford. efficient schoolmaster IoI'! the poor children of the town: ChriSlt Chure'h is an dron structure, in the Eas1t road, in 1859 the inn was sold, with the consent of the OhariLy and is served! from Wald'iteh, erected in 1,880, and has Commissioners, for £2,45°, and the net produce, 400 seats. £2,083 13s. 3d. now iruvested in Consols, the annual diviThere is a Crutholic church in Vlictoria s'treet, d·edicated dend~ of which, £65 12S. 4d. ara devoted to th~ use of to SS. Mary and' Oatherine, ","hiclh ,seats: 150. the general school in the town. Daniel Taylor's almsThe meelting house for the Soociety .of Friends, South houses opposite the church! in South street, are ()ccupied street, erected Iin 1700, will hold 200 persons; the Oon- by deserving persons appointed by the trustees. The gregatiouall cha.pel, East street, erecteru in 1,8591 has eoo l\Iagdalen charity consists of almshouses in .Allington; seats; tlhe Baptist chapeil, Victoria streEfu, built 1841, eight deserving women nre here found a dwelling, and has sittings for 3'5°; rthe Unitarian chapel, Ealst street, some trifling charity derived from a third portion of the erected tin 1790, will selllt 500 persons'; the 1Vesleyans proceeds of the Cattlebarrow estate at Whitchnrch. have a chapel in West !bay, built in 1849, with 70 seats, IBull's- charity, Bishop Hall's charity, Bernard Micbel's and OIlle in South street, e'rected in 1839, seaMll'g 800 charity and Napper's charity are very trifling'. The persons. Sunday school charity was a gift of a Sunday school for The Oem81te-ry, of 4 a.cres, 1 mile from the centre of the the parish of Bridport, for the instruction of children town, on the road to Dorchester, was formed in 1856, belonging to the established church, by the late Henry at a cost of £2,500, with the usual mortuary ohapels, Chlirles Sturt, father of the present Lord Alington: the and ,is governed 'by a Burial Board of nine mem'be;s. original school and land have been sold and the proThe Town Hall is a handsome !brick !building, faced ceeds devoted towardS! the erection of the capaci;ms and with PortLand ,soone: ~t was erected in 1786, on tlhe site com enient new schools erect~d on the glebe land opposite of the ancient chaopel ()of St. .Andrew, in t~e centre of the the former school. town, containing in the upper sJ:.ory a court for the The population within the municipal limits, in 1891, borough ,ses'sians, a room for the grand jury, and a was 6.6n, as follows :-Allington (part of), 1,490; ooumcil chamlber, underneath which is· held the general Bothenhampton (part of), 121; Bradpole (part of), 864; market iorbutchers' meat. TU:1e marke.t days are Wed- Bridport, 3,768; Burton Bradstock (part of), 165; nesd1ay and 'Saturday. Tihe fairs are held 001 tlhe nth ()f Symondsbury (part of), 136; and Walditch (part of), 67. Ocrober and the 6th of April, '£01' cattle and' cheese: the The population of Bridport parish 'was ,,768, and the former date 'being the festlival day of St. Michael old I area is 62 acres; rateable value of Bridport, £12,500; style, to whom a chureh, wl1ic'h formerly stood at the and Allington, £7,049. The population of the wards in corner of 1St. :Midhael's lane, wals dedicated: the laMer 1891 was: North, 3,142; south, 3,469. date is 1Ihe festival of 1St. iMary tihe Virgin, toO whom the Allill!;ton parish forms part of the borough, and under parish church was orliginally dedicated. the" Local Government Act of 1894" thoso portions of The head quarters of A Company, ISIt Volunteer Bat- the surrounding parishes within tJ:e borough aTe al~o talion Dorsetshire Regiment, are situated at the V.olun- now included in the civil parish of Bridport. teer Hall, St. M1iciJJ.ael's lalne. The parish church of St. Swithin, erected in 1827, is a rrhe. tTlade of the town con~Slbs prin'Cipa~ly in fue im- plain rectangular building of stone in the Greek style, pOl'!OO:tion of hemp and flax ohtiefl.y from RIga and Arch- consisting of chancel (at the west end of the church), angel. Tihere was form·erly a oonsideralble coasting trade, nave, aisles and east gallery: it contaim 800 seats, of by WlhiciJJ. the adjacent towns were supplied with wal frOlIIl which 400 are fr:le. The register dates from the year Wales and' the col:1ieries in the North of Eng-:rand, and: 1600 and earlier, but the earliest are milinly illegible. with; miher 8:,rtiioles of general consumption., but t:he ex- i The living is a viearage, gross yearly value £210. with ten5ILon of raIlways has almost destroyed this trade. The house, in the gift of the Bishop of Salisbury, and held ~arbour, :wmch is. oonnected with the town ~y .~ short' since 187q by the Rev. Samuel Shering Keddle M.A. of ¥ne of ral1, and Will take vessels of 250 tons, as s[tuated . Corpus Christi college, Oxford. m il:he bay wIh'ich is formed: .by the headlands near ~or!-I At North Allington is a. Dispensary and Cottage Hospiland ()n tJhe ealst and TO'r Pmnt {)n :tlhe west. 'Fhe prmeI- I tal, with beds for nine patients, ~mpported by subscriptJal manufactures are those of fishing-nets, twmes, shoe- ,tion: the site and former house were o-iven by the late thread and sail Cl~oth, made Iargely bolJh for home and: Thomas Hannan. '" foreign. consumpt4on; former~y m~clJ. f1.~ was grown in i There are some endowed almshouses here, which were the adJacent panshes, 'b1lJt lItJlJle II.S now produced. On p:irtly rebuilt in 1877 by public sub!'lcription. the rive~ Brit. there are thr~e l~rge fla~ mills. I St. Andrew's, a chapel of ease to Bradpole, was erected ~e~e as LItera~y and SCIentIfi:c InSltltute, a hand'some ' in the rear 1860 in the Early English style, and comists bUllding SItuated m the Ea,st street. of chaI~cel nave and north aisle with a wes~ern bell The WorkhoUise, a buildling of sltone, is sHuated on the I turret containing 3 bells: th~ Yi~ar of Bradpole or hiOl Bradpole road. " . . curate officiates: it contaiD'! 320 seats, all of which He Bndport has the followm!5 chantIes: the eIght-acre free. The area is 594 acres; the population in 1891 'Was tenement,. partly bought WIth the. proceed~ of money 1,771, collected m ~619 to.war.ds the repaIrs of Bndport Har- By a Local GavE'rnment Ordl'r dated March 25, 1884, a bour, but bemg qUlte madeq:uate for the purpose, was detached part of Loders' known as Loders 'West End ~as added to some other money gIven by Henry H~dy, and a amalgamated with Allington. small estate- purchased at Broad Oak; a portIOn of the p. I Cl k St l\f B'd t S 1 K h Tent is given to the general school and the remainder to'l al'lS 1 er., . -' ary, r~ por , ... ~mue eec. the National schools. The fourteen-acre tenement given in S~xton, St. Swithin, .A.llington, William Wocdland.

38 BRIDPORT. DORSETSHIRE. [ KELLY'S South Ward. Presiding Alderman at Ward Elections, A.W.H.Dammers. tStephen Champ tJobll James Roper tFredel'ick Turner tJohn WiIliam Hartgill tEdward Clent *Arthur "\Valdie Temple *Henry Tucker *George WilIiam Read North Ward. Presiding Alderman atWard Elections. Elias Cox. tWo H. E. Biddlecombe tJohn W. Hounsell t William J amcs tT. A. Colfox tJames Guppy tFrederick Jones *Richard Tucker, jun *William A. E. Hay *Abraham Meech Marked thus t retire in 1895. Marked thus t retire in 1896. Marked thus, * retire! in 1897. Mayor's Auditor, Stephen Champ Elective Auditors, Thomas White & Edwin Smith Officers of the Corporatiolll & Urban District Council. Town Clerk & Clerk to Urban District Council & Borough School Attendance Committee, Frederick WaIter Gundry, Downes street Treasurer !t) Vrban District Council, Reginal~ Thornton, Dorchester Medical Officer of Health, William Clibborn M.D. East st Public Analyst, Eo C. Day F.C.L. Dorchestel' Borough. Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, F. Cooper, Municipal Office~ Collector, J. H. Ewens, Bedford place School Attendance Officer, J. H. Ewens, Bedford place Town Crier, Thomas Taylor, North Allington Town Hall Keeper, Mrs. Norman, 86 East street Public Establishments. Cemetery, East road, Henry Nobbs Cox, clerk to burial board; William Elliott, curator County Court Office, 36 East street; His Honol' J o11n Hooper Mackonochie, judg-e; Charles George Nantes, registrar & high bailiff; Robertl Gilchrist, clerk. '1'he court is held at the Town hall every month. The district comprises the following places, viz. :-Allington, Askerswell, Beaminster, Bettiscombe, Bothenhampton, Bradpole. Bridport, Broadwindsor, Burstock, ••• 2.0 p.m 5.30 p.m 4.15 p.m 8.0 p.m 8.0 p.m ••• 2.15 p.m. 6.25 p.m. 4.20 p.m. 11.25 a.m. 11.15 a.m iBellair, Whitchul'ch Letters from Until 7.30 p.m. 9.55 a.m. 2.10 p.m. 6.0 p.m. 4·15p·m. Mails. OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &0 Post, M. O. &, T. 0., S. B., ExpreslSJ Delivery & Annuity Talbot John Regnld.Fras.Geo.esq.Rhoda hill,Lyme Regis &; Insurance Office, East street; Miss M. Prince, Weld Humphrey Frederick esq. Manor house, Chideock postmist,ress Clerk to the Magistr.ttes, :Frederick WaIter Gundry, Dispatch of Letters. Parcel Downes street, Bridport Letters &c. can be posted Post.* Petty Sessions are held every alternate month on mon- . Parcels re- day at the Town Hall, at II tI..m. The following places with extra ceived at are included in the Petty Sessional Division :-Allingt d. s~mp the coun- ton, Askerswell, Beaminster, Bradpole, BurstoCk, until ter up to Broadwindsor, Bettiscombe, Bothenhampton, Burton 8.0 p.m. 7.15 p.m Bradstock, Beerhall, Cheddington, Chardstock, Cors.. ... 9.50 a.m combe, Chelborough East & West, Chilcombe, Chideock, Charmouth, Catherston, Leweston, Hook, Halstock, Hawkchurch, Loders, Lyme Regis, Mapperton, ~Iosterton, Marshwood, Netherbury, Poorton North, Perrott South, Pilsdon, Poorstock, Stoke Abbott, Stanton St. Gabriel, Symondsbury, Shipton Gorge, Thorncombe, Wambrook. Walditch, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Wootton, Fitzpaine, 'Vraxall. Borough Magistrates. The Mayor & Ex-Mayor Cox Elias, West bay GUIldry Edward Pearkes, Hyde Hay William Alfred Edward M.D. West Allington James William, West Allington Rendall Henry, West Allington Roper John J ames, East street Stephens Joseph Thompson, Wanderwell house Suttill Henry Squire, Pymore Suttill John Pickard, West street Tucker Richard, Fullbrooks Turner Frederick, Melrose, Bradpole road Whetham Stephen, Bradpole road 'Vhe1ham William Townley, West street Clerk, Frederick WaIter Gundry, Downes street Borough Petty Session~ are held! at the Town Hall every three weeks on tuesday, at II a.m Corporation 1894-5. Mayor-Conncillor James Guppy. Deputy Mayor-Councillor Frederick Jones. Aldermen. . Elected 1889 to 1895. I Elected 1892 to 1898• Elias Cox A. W. H. Dammeri:l John Hounsell r D. Eo Biddlecombe Joseph Thompson Stephens Charles G. Xantes Councillors. London(night)&aIl parts London (day) .. London (day) & West & S. West of England... 11.20 a.m. North of England, Ireland & Scotland ...... West of England(night) Dorchester&Weymouth Beaminster & Melplash (day)..................... 4.15 p.m. 4.20 p.m Beaminster &Melplash, Charmouth & Lyme (night) 10.30 p.m Bridport rural deliveries 6.50 a.m. ... *No dispatch sundays. Bridport Town Deliveries include all letters posted in head office half an hour before commencing next delivery Delivery. 1St......... 7.0 8.m. 2nd •.•.•• 8.45 a.m. All parts . West of England........... 8.45 a.m North of England, Scotland & London (1st day).....•................. 10.30 a.m 3rd 10.30 a.m. Dorchester &Weymouth 2.15 p.m. 4th......... 4.30 p.m. London (2nd day) 4.30 p.m. On sundays the 7.35 a.m. delivery is only made. Post & Telegraph Office, West Bay.- sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 8 a.m. & 5 p.m.; dispatched at 9 a.m. &, 6 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid . Wall & Pillar Letter Boxes in various parts of the town County Magistrates For Bridport Petty Sessional Division, sitting alternately at Bridport & Beaminster, & at Thorncombe every two months. The senior magistrate present acts as chairman. Sandwich The Earl of, Hooke court, Beaminster Bridport Viscount G.C.B. Cricket lodge, Cricket St. Thomas, Chard Adams Albert Thomp,;on esq. Canonicol'um, Bridporli Bragge Capt. John A. Sadhorow, Thorncombe, Chard Bullen Lieut.-Col. John Bullen Symes, Catherston nouse, Charmouth Charlesworth·Wm.esq.Westhay ho.Hawkchul'ch,Axminstr Colfox Thomas Alfred esq. Coneygar. Bridport Colfo:!: Williijm esq. B.A. Westmead, Bridport Cox John Russell esq. Manor house, Beaminster Dammers Alfred William Houngell esq. Downe hall, Bridport Evans William Herbert esq. F.R.G.S., ~I.A., D.L. Forde abbey, Thorncomhe-. Chard Gundry Edward Pearkes, Bridport Gundry Jc~eph esq. The Hyde, Bridport Hardcastle J oseph Alfred esq. M.A. Beaminster Henley Col. Henry Cornish, Leigh house, Chard HOOy Capt. William Trevelyan, Bath Hody William Trevelyan esq. Bath Hoskins Henry William esq. M.A. :North Perrott manor, Crewkerne Hounsell William esq. Mountfield, Bridport James Abraham Rooke, Bothenha'npton, Bridport Langdon In. Churchill Stuckey esq.Parrocks 10. Chard Lowndes Samuel esq. Parklands, Merrow, Surrey Philpot Thomas Embray Davenport. Holme cleve, Sidmouth road, Lyme Regis Pinney Edward esq. Blackdown house, Crewkerne Pinney George Frederick, Beaminster Preston John William esg. Cliff house, Lyme Regis Rodd Edward Stanhope, Chardstock house, Chard Russell Captain Thomas, Beaminster Sanctuary Campbell Fortescue Stapleton esq. Mangerton, Melplash Sparks Major William, East street, Crewkerne Still Capt. James Charles, The Hyde, BridporiJ Talbot John Reginald Charles esq. Rhode 11l1l,Lyme Regis Tatchell-Bullen Capt. John Bullen TatcheIl, Marshwood I manor, Crewkerne