. 144 OWERliOIGXE. DORSETSHIRE. Bhydderch Rev. William, Rectory Kellaway Thomas, farmer Spicer Mary .Ann (Mrs.), dairyman, COMMERCIAL. Legg Obadiah, fa1mer Galton • Coleman George, fal'mer, West farm Miller Harry, farmer, Galton Stickland Nathaniel, mmer (water)&; Wimborne Minster on the ster,theRev.Taku JohnConst,able Parry-EvansA.K.C.L. north-west, was constituted a separate civil parish out of being- resident curate. .At the entrance to the church Wimborne by an Order of the Dorset County Council, 23 is a memorial cross, e-rected by Mrs. Bankes to the .Jun9, 1894, and confirmed by the Local Government memory of her ·husband, who died in 1904. The Wim­ Board Order, Sept. 30, 1894, in accordance with the borne, Pamphill and Colehill cemetery is in this parish. "Local Government Act, 1894·" 'l'he parish includes Adjoining the school are eight almshouses of the Gil­ Pamphill, Hillbutts, Kingston Lacy, High Hall, Barns- lingham trust, erected in 16g8, four being for men and ley, Bradford and Cowgrove. It is in t'he Eastern divi- four for women; each inmate receives zs. per week, the -sion of the county, Badbury hundred, Wimborne union, appointments being made by the Wimborne Church county court district and petty sessional division. The 4"ovPrnors as trustees of the charity. Kingston Lac~, -church uf St. Stephen, at Kingswn Lacy, Precte1l in a numJSion of stone, standing in a park of 420 acreo, 1907• at a cost of £4,ooo (exclusive of the site), by the is the residence of )'lrs. Bankes. 'fhe Bankes settlt>rl. trustees of the late Waiter Ralph Bankes esq. (d. 1904), estates are lords of the manor and chi~f landowners. who left money for that purpose, is an edifice of Stone Park is the residence of Charles Edward: Mason Purbeck stone in the Late Decorated style, from designs esq. J.P. The area :is 5,fYJ7 acres of land; and 37 of lly Mr. C. E. Panting, architect, of Marlborongh, and water; rateable value, £5,88o; the population in 1901 consists of chancel, transept, nave, south porch and a was 717. -western tower containing one bell; the transept i~ used Post Office, Hillbutts. Ernest Lovelace Srore, sub-past· -as a vestry and organ chamber; a new reredos, the master. Letters are delivered from Wimborne at 7 ~It of Mrs. Bankes, was erected :in 19u ; there are a.m. & 6.30 p.m. Letter box cleared at· 7·4o a.m. k 'five memorial windows, the east window being given 7 p.m. No collection on sundays .. Wimborne, I mile by the children of Mr. Bankes, and th:>- smaller on«:'s distant, :Is the nearest money order & tPlegraph offi.CP respectively by the tenants and Mr. Ladder, agent to Elementary School (boys & girls), built r698 & enlarged iu the estate: the church affords sittings for about 2oo Igog, for 100 children; average attendance, 77; .Mr~, .persons, and is served by the clergy of Wimborne Min- Lam·a Evelyn Dixon, mistress Kilmister Simon Robert Ruddle, far- PRIVATE RESIDENTS. l:O.MMERCIAL. mer, Bradford farm 1Jankes Mrs. Kingston Lacy Brownsey George, estate thatcher, Kingston Lacy Cricket Club (Alfr~>d Benison RPv ErnestD'Ewes M.A.Farr> Kingston Lacy T. Lodder, hon. sec) .Bernard Rev. Canon Edward Rusosell Budden Edmund Chas. blacksmith. Kingston Lacy EstatP Office {Thoma• M.A. (canon & chancellor of Salis- Abbott Street Ladder, steward), Hillbutts bury- & hon. chaplain to H.M. the '"'hissell Jn. Pearce, farmr. Cowgro.fm List Stanley Norman, frmr. Hillbutts Ki11g-), Hig-h Hall f'oakes William, farmer, Stone Lodder Thomas, stPward nf the King~-· 1Jradburne John .E. Elm grove, Hill- Gal pin John George, wheelwright ton Lacy & Corfe Castle estates. butts Habershon William, estate foreman, rPgistrar to the church governors of 'Dodd Waiter H. Maybrook Kingston Lacy estate Wimborne Min>~ter & clerk t{t tl11• LoddPr .Alfred Thowas, Hillbutts Hayter Gilbert & Frederick Cecil, governors of Wiwborne Gramt;nar Lodder Thomas, Hillbutts farmers, Upper Barnsley school; office, Hillbutts • Mason Chas. Edwd. J.P. Stone park Hayter George James, farm bailiff to Richards Brothers, farmers,Chilbridg~ Parry-Evans Rev. Taku Jn. Constable Mrs. Bankes, Home farm, Kingston RickPtts Eli henrv. beer r«:'tailPr A KC L. (curate Wimborne Min- Lacy Standfield Herbert, farmer, Barforrl ster), Hillbutts Hill James, gardener to Mrs. Bankes, farm (letters through Sturmin~tPr B.if'bardq Frederick Wm. Chilbridge Kingston Lacy Marshall) Spiller John, Pamphill manor Hobbs Sidney .Albt. farmer, Cowgrove White Charles, farmer, Cowgrove PARKSTONE was formerly a civil parish, formed in Torrance M.A. of Keble Cn1IPQ"e, Oxford. The chapel 1:813· but in 1:905 it, as well as other parishes within of the Holy Ang«:'ls, LILLIPUT, is a small ed;fice of the borough, became part of the civil parish of Poole, of white brick. consisting of chancel, nave, south aislP which it is a picturesque and rapidly-increasing Pastern anti a we!1tf'rn turret containing one bell: it has about f!uburb, extending to Poole harbouT, with a station on 200 sittings. St. Lawrence's is a small church situated the Wimborne, Broadstone and Bournemouth branch of in Sandbanks road. Both of these are in connPction the London and South Western railway, I! miles north- with St. Peter's. The Catholic School chap«:'] of St. west from PoolP and 3 west from Bournemouth; it· is in Joseph and St. Walburga, in the BournPmouth road, the Eastern division of the county, Poole union and was opened July nth, 1895· Here is a Baptist chapel. county court diRtrict, Poole municipal borou~h and erected in 189I, with 400 sittings, and th!'Te is another pPtty sesS'ional division, rural deanery of Whitchurch at Upper Parkstone; there are also Wesleyan and -(Pnole portio11 ), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese. of Undenominational chapels, a Congregational chapel. Salisrury. Water is !lupp1ied bv the Poole Water Works built in I89i· at a cost of £3.5co, and affording 750 Co from works at Lilliput. The pier at Sandbanb, sitting:;;, and another in Courthill, erected in JOIO, opPned on .April 5, 1898, is Ioo feet in lengt'h, and is with 250 sittings. The Brethren hnve a Gospel Hall in arlapted for the use of pleaqure steamers plying- along North road, and there is a Mission Hall at Lilliput. the croast. The church of St. Peter, partlv rebuilt in ThP <'PmetPry, at Blake hill. Pnlargerl in I897, and now 1876, and again in 1R92 and 1901, is an edifice of Pur- about 5 acr.,s in ext«:'nt. is under fb.e control bf a "bP<'k stone with Bath stone dressings, in the Early committee of the Poole Town Council. Canford Cliff• 'En!!'lish style. consisting of chan<'el with chapel and estate, which faces the English Channel, is 2 miles -ambulatory. transPpts and nave: the altll!r is of carved! south-east, and consists of a sea frontage of underclifi oak and richly gildPd, and there is a rood screen of with excellent sands and heights clad with pines and wJ·ought iron and eh borate desig-n: the or,gan was pre- Scotch firs, and sloping to the south-west, from which -sPnted in 1888 by the Rev. S. E. Pontifex, of Clifton, the Isle of Wight, Poole harbour, the Purbeck hill• -as a memorial to his mother: the church will sPat and Corfe and Branks~>a Castles are well seen. The I,ooo. The rP~'~ter dates from the year 1833. The Sandecotes and Castle Eve estates also occupy pleasant -living- is a vicarag-e, net yearly value £168, with resi- positions here. Victoria Park, a piece of land of 3 denc<>, in the gift of Mrs. John Parr, and hPld !lince acres in the centre of the town, acquired from Lord 1910 by thP Rev. Hon. Reginald Edmund Adderley M.A. Wimborne, in exchange for other land, is well wooded of Christ Church, Oxford. St. L11kP's is an ecclesias- and laid out with shrubs and vralks, and has a fountain -tif'Rl P"'rish, formed in 1903; the church is situated in in the CPntre; it was opened for the use of the public W~llington and Sandecotes roads. The register dates in r888. Parkstone Park and Con<>titution Hill Ground8, from I<)03. The Jiving is a vicara!!'E:', net yearly value described under Poo1e, and Branksome Park Pleasurt­ £28o, in the gift of t"rustP.es, and held since 1909 by Grounds are all within this parish. There is a coast­ ·th~> Rev. FPnwick Fisher M A. of Trinity College, gu'lrd station at Sandbanks, in charge of a chief officpr Dublin. St. Osmond's is an ecclesiastical parish, formed with 7 men. Lord Wim borne, who is lord of thP in tgn; the church, on the Bou.. nemouth road, at manor, Lord .Alington K.C.V.O. and the trustees of tht> pre!IPnt (ton) incomplete, is a building- of red brick late William Pearce esq. J.P. are the principal land­ in the BT iron structure. ThP living is a vicarage, in been cultivated. The subsoil is gravel, with an the !rift of the Rev. Canon E. E. Du gm orE' M. A. and occasinnRl stratum of. clay, admirably adaptPd for th11 has be..n held since I9II by the RPv. Wilfimn Jackson manufactnrf' of terra-cotta articles and sanitary drain·