tDOBSET.] CAUNDLB BlSliOP;S. 22 POST OFFIC:ij • Up11haw Charles, blacksmith Wightman Richard Lutley, carpenter Curtis William, 'Three Horse Shoes,' Wigbtman Alexa.uder, carpenteJ Wightman 'Thomas, • Fo:c !\" Hounds' farmer & black~mith Wightman Richard Lutley,j'un.scbool, Williams Edward, miller & b~ker Duntord Jame11, shoemaker & agent to Legal & Commercial fire Sandbills. Dunford James, shopkeeper & life office Barrett William, grocer Russell Su~an, shopkeeper PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. plizabeth Nobbs, receiver. Letters CARRIER-Thoma.s Stow, paRses through from EversliOt arrive from Dorchester 7 a.m.; dispatched 7 p.m. The to Dorchester, wednesday & Saturday, returning the nearest money order office is at Cerne Abbas same day National School, John CleaJ, master

C4.11l'lDL:E: B~S:S:OP'S, CAUNDLE MARSH, a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset and and CAUJ'JDLE PUBS:E:, · diocese of Salisbury, endowed with £400, and in the C.A.UNDLB BisHOP, or Bishop's Caundle, is a parish in the patronage of Sir Hugh Richard Hoare, Bart. The Rev. Hundred, Union, and division of Sherborne, distant .5~ Richard Messiter is the present incumbent. The church miles south-east-by-east from Sherborne, 6 south-west is dedicated to St. Peter. Population, in 1651, 71, with from Sturrninster .Newton. ThQ living is a rectory, in 792 acres. the arch deaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury, CA. UN DLE PuRsE, or PURSE CA UNDLE is a parish in value £226, in the patronage of Earl Digby. The Rev. the same division, distant 5 miles east-north-east from Ralph Lyon, D.D., is the present in.cumbent. The church Sherborne. The living is a discharged rectory, value

is an ancient edifice, aud consists of nave, aisles, and .£1601 in the arehdeaconry of Dorset and dioce~e of Salis­ chancel; the tower contains 4 bells. Here is a National bury J and in the patronage of Sir Hugb Richard Boa re, school. Lime is burnt here. Population, in 185I, 397, Bart. The Rev. Richard Messiter is the incumbent. The with I,397 acres, includiug the tithiqg of Caunrlle Wake church is dedicated to St. Peter. There is in this parish a and the hamlet of Bishopsdown, H IJlile south-west. fine old mansion, said to have been the property of King HIGHER and LoWER WooDROW are I mile north; John, and one of his hunting-seats; it is now converted

Pry town and Tuthill, H north-west; Hawkins and Rue, into a farm-house. fopulation, in 1851 1 1771 with 11470 1 west; Poll Bridge, three-quarters of a mile south-west; acres. Capbay11, Knapp, and Pluck, 2 west. Densham is a farm. CLA YHANGER is l1alf a mile south-east; Frith, half a CA UNDLE M.4.RSH is a parish in the same juri~diction, mile east; Cockhill and Thorphouse, 1 south-east; 'fripps, distant • miles south-east from Sherborne. The living is I! south-w£:st. Caundle Bishop. KendallJohn, shopkeeper& stonemason r TRADERS. GENTRY. Knight John, miller Bowditcb Robert, tanner, Tuthill farm Lyon Rev. Ralph, n.n. Rectory Lawrence George, farmer Case James, dairyman Warren Mrs. Ellen Lawrence Rohert, butcber, & post office Fudge s .. muel, stonemason TRADERS. Phjllips Thomas, farmer Gartell Thomas, f;;rmer Andrews Thomas, farmer Roberts William, shoemaker House Eliza (Mrs.), farmer Bishop Charles, wheelwright Ryall Job, farmer, Bishop's down Loader James, farmer Brandis William, ~ White Hart' Senior James, beer retailer & ~mith Osmond George, fHrmer Clark William, farmer, Bishop's down Spicer George, farmer, Bishop's down Phillips Thomas, shopkeeper Durrant Silas, tailor Spicer John, saddler Strong Solomon Brake, farmer Gartell Georl{e, farmer Taylor George, carpenter Caundle Purse. Gillingham Abraham, lime burner & Taylor James, parhlh clerk Baker Thomas, parish cler~ shopkeeper Thome Geoffry, wheelwright Bugg Anthony, farmer, Tripp's farm Hammond John, shoemaker Trim John, farmer, Densham farm Dowdon haiah, farmer Hine William, smith Trowbridge -,farmer, Hawkins farm Sherring Thomas, cooper Hurleston Robert, tailor Caundle Marsh, White William, farmer Kendall James, stonemason Messit.er Rev. Richard, M.A Wilkins William, farmer PosT 0FfiCE.-Robert Lawrence, receiver, Bishop's I at 10 a. m.; dispatched i past 2 p.m. The nearest money Caundle. Letters arrive by messenger from Sherborne order offices are at ~herbome &; Sturminster Newton

STO"D'B.TON CAUl\TD~E is a parish and village in perpetual curacy, value £50, in the gift of Sir Hugh :Brownshall Hundred, Sturminster Newton Union and Hoare, Bart., lord of the manor. The Rev. Richard division, 15 miles north· west from Blandford, 2 miles Messiter, ~r.A., is the incumbent. Here was once a castle. aouth-west from Stalbridge, and 7 south-east from Sher- WHEEL is a quarter of a mile east; Rowton, 1~ south­ borne, situated on a branch of the Stmu, and the popu- west; Warr Bridge, I! south-east; Brown's, Smith's and ]ation, in 1851, was 450, with 1)975 acres. The church is Weston Common, I north-east; Eastip Lane, l north­ so ancient edifice, with a square tower, and the living is a east; Holehouse, I~ north. Serrell Mrs. Eliza. Cracker Charles, boot & shoe maker, & IParwns Samuel, plasterer Wilson Rev. George M,A. [curate] postmaster Stokes Harriet (Miss), beer retailer & TRADERS. Gillett George, farmer farmer Andrews Thomas, plasterer Harris George, farmer Tabor Henry, carpenter :Bartlett Richard, farmer Hicks Thomas, farmer Thick William, shopkeeper& carpenter :Bogg Jobn, farmer Lyne Richard, carpenter Walden James, basket maker Bui/:1!: William, farmer Mallgs hmiah, farmer Walden John, carpenter Clinch Geo, basket ma!ir. &; parish clrk Miller William, carpenter & grocer Walden Josiah, grocer Coffen Thoma8, farmer Mogg Samuel, boot & shoe maker Watts Benjamin, 'Trooper' Cook James, plasterer M ullett Waiter, blacksmith Wills Charles, shoemaker Crees James. farmer Oliver JQ.mes, carpenter Winter James, grocer PosT OPPICE.-Charles Crocker, receiver. Letters are I when they are dispatched to Blandford. The nearest delivered at 1 past 10 9,.1l,l. & the bags close at 4 p.m. money order office is at Sturminster Newton CEB.NE ABDAS, tower, with 5 bells and chimes; the living is a vicarage, NETBEK CBR.NE and "D'PPEK CER.NB. value £ll0, in the gift of Lord Rivers; the Rev.Alexander

CERNE ABBAS 1 a parish, Union and small market-town Williams, M.A.,is the incumbent. The principal trade of the and subdivision of the shire, about 8 miles north from town is malting, brewing, and the manufacture of leather. Dorchester, 10 south from Sherborne, and 148 fro~ Cerne is ~hiefly entitled to notice from the remains of its London, in a pleasant vale watered by the river Cerne, abbey, supposed to have been built by St. Augustine; the contains, according to the census of 1851, a population of gateway of this once extensi\·e mew,astery still remains in

1 1343, and ·about 3,000 acres; it is in the ~undred of a tolerabl~ state of preservation'5" Not many hundred Cerne-Totcombe and Modbury, and diocese of Salisbury. yards from the abbey is what is called the Giant's Hill, The market day was formerly Wednesday, but the market in the side of which, cut in the chalk, is a gigantic figure, bas been entirely discontinued for some years. There are 170 feet in length, representing a man holding a tre­ three fairs during the year, Mid-Lent Monday, 28th April, mendous club in his right hand: various are the con­ and ~nd