1346 WORTH J.lfIATRAVERSo DORSETSHIRE. [KELLY'S the Norman style W!l.S presented by the Earl of Eldon: the Parish Clerk, James Bridle. officiating clergyman is the Rev. John WiIliams. The 8 principal landowners are William Montagu Calcraft esq. J.P. Letters through Wareham, arrive at a.m. Langton of Rempstone Hall, who is lord of the manor, the Earl of Matravers is the nearest money order&post office; Swan­ age is the nearest telegraph office Eldon and W. R. Bankes esq. D.L., J.P. The soil is stiff clay; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops are barley, wheat Church Schools (mixed), built in 1850, with residence ad­ and oats. There is also a large area of pasture land. The joining, for 70 children; average attendance, 18 ; Mrs. area is 2,645 acres; rateable value, £1,610; the population Elizabeth Ann Eastham, mistress in 1881 was 302. EMMIT HILL, a large barrow, is situated on the cliff, Il Coast Guard Station, St. Alban's Head, 13 men (stabon miles south-west; on St. Aldhelm's Head are old quarries officilr, Thomas Bailey); Rocket Life Saving Apparatus, of freestone. No. 3°° Williams Rev. John [vicar], Vicarage Day Robert, fishin~ boat owner Lowe James, shoe maker & V• Bridle James, carpenter parish clerk HawkinsWm.H• Worth &Weston farms Savage John, dairyman, Downshay frm Bullen George, blacksmith Holland John, dairyman. Quar farm Squibb WiIliam, fishing boat owner Caines Thomas, farmer, Renscombe Hooper George, fishing boat owner Stevens John, farmer, Eastington Ford George, farmer, Woody hyde Hopkins Wm. Square & Compasses P.H Turner John, shopkeeper [Letters through Corfe Castle] WOTTON (or WOOTTON) FITZPAINE is a from the year 1667. The living is a rectory, tithe rent­ parish, situated on a small branch of the river Char, 3 miles charge commuted at £250 yearly, with residence, in the north-east-by-north from Lyme Regis, Il north from Char- gift of and held since 1864 by the Rev. Forster Lewis M.A. mouth,6 south-east frotH Axminster and 7 north-west from of St. John's College, Oxford. George Fownes Luttrell esq. Bridport, in the Western division of the county, hundred of D.L., J.P. of Dunster Castle, Somerset, is lord of the manor Whitchurch Canonicorum, Bridport petty sessional division and the principal landowner. The soil is stone brash, clay and union, Axminster county court district, rural deanery of and gravel; subsoil, strong clay. The chief crops are Bridport Lyme portion, archdeaconryof Dorset and diocese wheat, barley and oats. The area is 3,3°7 acres: rateable of Salisbury. The church (not dedicated), built of stone, is value, £3,219, including Monkton Wyld; the population of of ancient date, in the Early Decorated style, and consists of Wotton in 1881 was 224. chancel, nave, north transept, south aisle, south porch and Parish Clerk & Sexton, Levi Bridle. plain western tower containing one bell: it was restored in Letters through Charmouth, which is the nearest money 1872, at a cost of £2,000, defrayed partly by Mrs. and Miss order & telegraph office, arrive at 9 a.m. WALL Box Luttrell and partly by subscription, when the north tran- at Napp, cleared at 4.15 p.m. week days & 8.45 a.m. sept, which had been demolished about 200 years previou!lly, sundays was rebuilt and a vestry added: there is a stained window Parochial School (infants), built in 1860, for 50 children; in the chancel, erected to Mrs. and Miss Luttrell, also one average attendance, 20; supported by the rector & G. in the south aisle to the memory of F. Drew and R. F. F. Luttrell esq. ; Miss Mary Rowe, mistress; the elder Luttrell esqrs: there are 200 sittings. The register dates children attend the board school at Charmouth Bovill Archibald George, Manor house Gen~e Benjamin, farmer, Guppy Miller William, farmer, Westover Lewis Rev. Forster M.A. [rector] Glyde George, farmer, Champernhayes Payne John, dairyman COMMERCIAL. Henley WiIliam, blacksmith Rapsey Jesse, carpenter & wheelwright Bridle Levi, blacksmith & parish clerk Miller Elizabeth (Mrs.),farmer,Meerhay Rowe Mary (Miss), shopkeeper Chilcott Edward, miller (water), Cham- Miller John, farmer, Spence farm Swaffield John, farmer, Manor farm pernhayes Miller Josepb, farmer, Napp farm Taylor George, basket maker Dare George Charles, butcher, Bowshot Miller Samuel, wheelwright, Parthay

WRAXALL (or WROXHALL) is a parish and small Rev. Frederick John Rooke M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford, village, 7 miles south-east from Beaminster and II north rural dean of Bridport (Hridport portion), and canon of from Dorchester; the nearest railway stations are Evershot, Salisbury. The trustees of the late J. Stein esq. are lords 4 miles, and Maiden Newton, 2~ miles, on the Weymouth of the manor, and owners of the one farm of which the branch of the Great Western railway, in the Western divi- parish consists. The soil is loam, clay and peat; subsoil, sion of the county, Bridport petty sessional division and gravel and chalk. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, county court dis~rict, hundred of Eggerton, Beaminster peas and roots. The area is 990 acres; rateable value, union, rural deanery of Bridport (Bridport portion), arch- £1,090; the population in 1881 was 97. deaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The church Parish Clerk, Joseph Ellis, Rampisham. of the Holy Trinity is a small edifice of stone in the Tran- sition Norman style, consisting of chancel and nave, south WALL LETTER Box, cleared at 6 p.m. in the winter & 6.20 porch, with western bell turret, containing one bell: there p.m. in the summer. Letters through Cattistock, from are 50 sittings. The register dates from the year 1650. The Dorchester, arrive at 8 a.m. The nearest money order living is a rectory, consolidated with Rampisham, jointg-ross office is at Cattistock, & nearest telegraph office is at yearly value £480, net £300, with residence, in the gift of Maiden Newton St. John's College, Cambridge, and held since 1845 by the The children attend the school at Rampisham Paul WaIter, farmer I Phillips Charles, dairy WYKE REGIS is a village and parish, pleasantly tory, gross yearly value £623, net £420, including 26 acres situated in a valley open to the sea from the south-west, I~ of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, miles south-west from Weymouth, and partly within that and held since 1882 by the Rev. Richard Alexander England municipal borough, in the Southern division of the county, M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge, who is non-resIdent; Rev. Weymouth union and county court district, petty sessional Thomas Morgan Bell-Salter M.A. of Lincoln College, Oxford, division of Dorchester and liberty of Wyke Reeds, hundred is curate in charge. A new cemetery was dedicated 1888 ; of Culliford Tree, rural deanery of Dorchester Weymouth cost £47°: the ground was given by Rev. Robert Francis portion, archdeacouryof Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. Lymes M.A. Here is a hospital in connection with the Wey­ This place commands some fine views; to the south and mouth port sanitary authority, erected at a cost of about east are the Isle of Portland and the Portland Roads, with £5,000, opened in 1880, to hold 50 patients. Belfield House, St. Alban's Head in the distance; to the west is that part of the residence of Samuel Ashton Pretor esq. J.P. stands on an the sea called the West Bay, and to the north are a variety acclivity, and commands a fine prospect. Wyke House, of villages and lofty hills: from its very pleasant situation the property of Lieut.-Col. Charles James Orton Owen­ it has become the residence of many families. The church Swaffield, the residence of Rev. Frederick Tu~nell M.A. is & of All Saints is a stone building, affording a fine specimen handsome modern villa. Belfield Park is situated next to of Gothic architecture, consisting of chancel, nave and aisles, that of Ashton Pretor esq. on Wyke road, and is the resi­ separated by cylindrical piers and lofty arches, an embattled dence of Charles Holland esq.: the building is a handsome square western tower, with pinnacles, containing 3 bells and Gothic stone structure. The Earl of Ilchester, who is lord clock (which, from its great height, 261 feet above sea level, of the manor, and Col. Owen-Swaffield J.P. are the princi­ serves as a landmark to vessels passing up and down the pal landowners. Soil, loam; subsoil, clay. The chief English Channel), and a Gothic south porch: in the chancel crops are wheat, barley and pasture. The area is 1,70:l are two handsome stained windows, presented by R. H. acres; rate~ble value, £19,194; the population in 1881 was Swaffield esq. and Mrs. Muuro; another window was added 2,748, including 68 in the Nothe Fort, of which 1,250 ar(} In in 1885 by Capt. Pretor J.P. in memory of his father: the Weymouth. church contains some monuments and tablets and an organ:. . in the graveyard are several stones bilaring inscriptions to ParIsh Clerk, Abel WhIttle. persons shipwrecked on this coast: there are 500 sittings. POST OFFICE.-AbelWhittle, receiver. Letters arrive from The register dates from the year 1676. The living is a rec- Weymouth at 7.40 a.m. & at 3 p.m. ; dispatched at 8.30