DIRECTORY] DORSETSHIRE. CBID.t..OCK. 71 Wall Letter Boxes. Charlestown, cleared at 10.30 a.m. Elementary School (mixed), built in r875, & enlarged & 7.20 p.m.; Monte Video, cleared at 10.30 a.m. & in 1885, & again in I902, will now hold 240 children; 7.20 p.m. ; Marquis terrace, cleared at 10.30 a.m. & average attendance,r85; Alfred Eugene Ellis, master; J-20 p.m.; School, cleared at 8.30 a.m. & 6.15 p.m Miss Mabel James, infants' mistress Carrier to Weymouth, J. J. Fancy, daily

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Brown Silas Theodore, grocer Pascoe William, clerk to Parish Coun­ Bateson Anthony William, Morn lodge Courage Levi (Mrs.), gro. Oharlestwn cil & assistant overseer :Burt Miss, East street Courage Thomas Jas. farmer, Putton Raishley William Henry, builder &; Cockcraft Rev. William Owen B.A. Courage Wm. Levi, baker,Charlestwn sec. to Reading Room (rector of Langton Herring), The Dawes William, farmer Randall Elizabeth (Mrs.), Turk's Knapp Downton William, shopkeeper Head P.H Hodges John, Wesley villa Edwards Percy, farmer, Furzedown Randall John Frederick, dairyman Jesty Benjamin Arthur, The Elms Fancy James John, carrier Rashley .Alfred Joseph, bricklayer Jesty Wm. Chas. East Chickerell Fooks Waiter, farmer Reading Room & Library (William Marsh Noah James, Mina villa Green Charles, insurance agent Henry Raishley, sec) New Mrs. Stalls house Harris Thomas, wheelwright Roberts Richd. Hy. farmer, Putton Poole Rev. 8ealy M.A. (rector), The Hawker George, wheelwright Saunders Sidney Ernest, farmer, East Rectorv Jesty & Sons, butchers Chickerell • :Richardson Nelson Moore B.A. Monte Jesty Benj. Arth. farmer, Moor farm Shave George, dairyman Video Jesty Wm. Chas.frmr.EastChickerell Spiller Robert & Son, boot makers Roberts Richd. Hy. Fairfield, Putton Love Sarah Ann (Mrs.), beer retlr. Stallard Chas. beer retailer, Putton Thresher Mrs. The Myrtles Charlestown ·fhorne William, market gardener Maidment Waiter, farmer Toms George, farmer, Bank farm Marsh John J ames, dairy farmer, Watts Hy. Burrage, dairyman, West COMMERCIAL. Chickerell moor Bay cottage Ames George, Marquis of Granby Mowlem Thomas Caleb Loder, Vic­ Webb, Major & Co. Ltd. brick mas P.H. & dairyman toria P.H. Chickerell moor Weymouth Golf Club (J. Jesty, hon. AndrewJ Job, farmer, Charlestown Parker Albert, Lugger inn sec.), East Chickerell ~n Bros. brick manufacturers \'l'beeler Henry, grocer .- CHIDEOCK is a parish and exceedingly picturesque of the late Mr. Charles Weld. The Raper charity, village, on a brooklet, called the Winniford : it lies in a founded in I88S, consist% of a sum of £,2oo, invested in valley between the hills of Quar, Eype Down and Thorn­ Consols, the prcceeds from which are distributed on combe on the east and Haddon Hill and Golden Cap on St. Thomas' day to sick and needy poor persons belong­ the west, and is bounded on the south by the English ing to the Church of England in food and clothing ; Channel: it is 3 miles west from Bridport station, on the James Foss, who died in I902, also bequeathed £2oo, branch of the Great Western railway from Maiden New­ which sum was invested in Consols in Dec. I902, and ton, and 6 east from Lyme Regis, in the Western division the proceeds are devoted to the maintenance of the of the county, hundred of Whitchurch Canonicorum, Brid­ church, repairs &c. Here are the remains of the moat port union, petty sessional division and county court dis­ of Chideock Castle, the ancient seat of the de Ghideoch trict, rural deanery of Bridport {Lyme portion), arch­ and A.rundells, ereoted in 1379 by John de Chideocke: deaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The village, during the Civil wars Chideock Castle was often taken which is on the road from Bridport to Charmouth and and re-taken by each party. Chideock Manor House, the Lyme Regis, is supplied with water by a company, with property and residence of Hnmphrey Frederick Weld a capital of l4.SO, in shares held by the inhabitants: the esq. J .P. lord of the manor and principal landowner, water is obtained from a spring about a mile distant. stands on the right uf the road leading to North Chideock, The church of St. Giles is an ancient building of stone, half a mile from the parish church, in a park of about mainly in the Perpendicular style, with traces of earlier 40 acres : attached to the house is a small chapel for work, and consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, south the use of the family and the Catholic inhabitants ()f the porch, north transeptal chapel, and an embattled wesi:ern parish : the interior is richly decorated and contains tower, containing a clock and 5 bells, dating from 1603 : several good paintings in oil, the work of the late IGrd a new clock was provided in I897: the font has a shallow of the manor. '!'he soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The chief octagonal bowl, supported on a panelled stem: at the crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is I,977 acres -t>al!t end of the south aisle is an altar tomb of dark marble, of land, I of water, and 26 of foreshore; rateable value, on which rests the figure of a knight in plate armour, £3,685 ; and the population in Igor was 551. perhaps representing Sir John .Arundell; in the north I transept are three memorial tablets to William Fitzh~rbert SEATOWN, a hamlet, is mile south; NORTH -of this parish, gent. dated 1761; "Simeon Bullen esq. 1822, CHIDEOCK is a hamlet, I mile north. 1lnd John Bullen esq. 1852: the organ was erected in 1893 Sexton, John Grinter. at a cost of [190: there are five stained windows: in Post, M. 0. & T. Office.--Charles Gibbs, ~ub-post­ r88o the church underwent a thorough restoration, under master. Letters arrive from Bridport at 7·45 a.m. &; the superintendence of Mr. G. R. Crickmay, architect, of 3·55 p.m. ; dispatched at 10.25 a.m. & 4·45 p.m. w£-ek Weymouth, at a total cost of about £r,roo: during the days only course of the work a rude painting was discnvered on the Wall Letter Box, Seatown, cleared 8.30 a.m. k 4.40 north wall: in 1883 a new chancel was built, at a cost of p.m. week days only £6oo, from designs by Mr. G. R. Crickmay: the chnrch County Police Station, Waiter R. Drake, constable affords 270 sittings. The register dates from the year 1654· The living is a vicarage, net income £r8s, with Schools. residence, in the g;.ft of the Bishop of Salisbury, and held Elementary (mixed), built in r843, & enlarged in t8gr, -since I895 by the Rev. Edward Henry Greenhow M.A. of for 140 children; average attendance, 6o' John ()has. Charsley's Hall, Oxford. There is a Catholic chapel, dedi- Buclmall, master C!ated to Our Lady of Martyrs and St. Ignatius, and a Cat·holic, for 70 children ; average attendance, 30 ; Miss Wesleyan chapel. North of the, church, and separated Mary Fenwick, mistress by a wall from the churchyard, is the Catholic cemetery, Conveyance.-Omnibus to Bridnort from Lyme Regis whicn has a small cruciform mortuary chapel, the private passes daily (sunday excepted) at 11.40 a.m. & reaches property of the Weld family: the interior is adorned here on its return from Bridport to Lyme at 5 p.m with mural paintings, and on the west wall facing the Carriers to Bridport.-Walter Samways & Joseph gate is a representation of the "Crucifixion," the work 1 Bartlett, dailv • PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Raper Rev. William M.A. Beech ho Bishop J oseph, shoe maker Barlow James, Yew cottage Sargent Edmund Fitzgerald, The Bishop Sl\m, heer retailer Bindlo~s Mrs. Myrtle cottage Warren Bug-ler Wm. Castle inn, & butcher Campbell Henry Alexander, Seatown van Sandau Frederick, White cot Burton Eli, blacksmith Coghlan Rev. Patrick (Catholic) Weld HumphreyFrdk. J.P. Manor ho Chedd Thos. carpntr. North Chideock · Feeny Miss, Seatown cottage COMMEBCIAL. Corr Thomas, farmer, Doghouse Forster Mrs. Sea View cottage Barnes James, dairy, Doghouse D~nner Henry, tailor Gerard Miss, West cottage Barnes John, farmer, Wanehouse Diment Henry, farmer, Mt. Pleasant Greenhaw :Rev. Edward Henry M.A. farm (letters through Morcombe- (letters through Morcombe lake, (vicar), Vicarage lake, Charmouth, Dorset) Charmouth, Dorset)· Meyers Thomas, Welderby Bartlett John,. aparts. 2 Sea view Fa.rwell William, boat owner, Seatow M:olineux Geo. Wm. Betchworth house Ba.rtlett Josepb,apartments,& carrier, Fooks Fredk. Hy. farmer, P ~"Wl Pitfield George Roper, Bridge house 1 Sea view .. · Foss William, cycle agen +'~"' >