t>IREC'I'ORY. J DORSETSHIRE. CHIDEOCK. 69 land and 141 of foreshore; rateable value, £4,005; Wall Letter Boxes.-Charlestown, cleared at 8.30 & IO.JG population in 19II, 970. a.m. & 4.20 & 7.20 p.m.; Monte Video, cleared at EAST CHICKERELL, three-quarters of a mile east, ' 8.30 & 10.30 a.m. & 4.20 & 7.20 p.m.; Marquis ter­ tCHARLESTOWN, a mile south, PUTTON, half a mile race, cleared at 8.30 & 10.30 a.m. & 4.20 & 7.20 p.m.; eouth-east, are hamlets. School, cleared at 8.15 & 10.20 a.m. & 4.10 & 7 p.m Parish Clerk, William Chaffey. Elementary School (mixed), built in 1875, & enlargl'ocl in 1885 & again in 1902, will now hold 240 children; .Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Mrs. Alice Rose Raishley, sub­ Alfred Eugene Ellis, master; Miss Lilian Garrett, postmistress. Letters arrive from Weymouth at 7.25 infants' mistress .a.m. & 3.20 p.m.; dispatched at 8.25 & 10.25 a.m. & .4.15 & 7.10 p.m. week days only; open on sundays for A motor omnibus runs daily to Weymouth 1telegraph business from 8.30 to 10 a.m Carrier to Weymouth, J. J. Fancy, daily

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Courage Wm. Levi, baker,Charlestwn Raishley William Henry, builder & "Bateson Anthony William,Morn lodge Dawes William, farmer sec. to Readmg Room Cockcraft Rev. William Owen B.A.. Dearing Fdk. beer retlr. Charlestown Randall Elizabeth (Mrs.), Turk's (rector of Langton Herring), The Downton William, shopkeeper Head P.H Knapp Edwards Percy, farmer, Furzedown Randall John Fredk. (Mrs.),dairyman 'Facey Charles S., M.B. The Elms Facey Charles S., M.B. physician & Reading Room & Library (William .Hodges John, Wesley villa surgeon, The Elms I Henry Raishley, sec) Jesty Wm. Chas. East Chickerell Fancy James John, carrier jRichards Geo. Marquis of GranbyP.H .Marsh Noah James, Mina villa Fooks Waiter, farmer Roberts Ernest, farmer, Moor farm ·New Mrs. Stalls house Green Charles, insurance agent 1 ShaV"e George, dairyman Woole Rev. Sealy M.A. (rector), The Harris Thomas, wheelwright SpilleT Robert & Son, boot makers Rectory Hawker George, wheelwright Stalla.rd Chas. beer retailer, Putton .Richardson Nelson Moore B.A. Monte Jesty Wm. Chas.frmr.EastChick!'rell Toms George, farmer, Bank farm Video Maidment Waiter, farmer Watts Hem·, Burrage, dairyman, :Roberts Mrs. Fairfield, Putton Marsh Jn. Jas. farmr. Ea. Chickerell Charlestown 'Thresher Mrs. The Myrtles Marshallsay & Son, bakers Watt:. WilEam, Victoria P.H. COMMERCIAL. Mitchell Wm. farmer,Chickerell moor Chickerell Moor Andrews Job, farmer, Charlestown Mowlam Thos.CalebLoder,Lugger inn Webb, Major & Co. Ltd. brick mas .Brown Bros. brick manufacturers Pascoe William, clerk to Parish Coun- Weymouth Golf Club (J. Jesty, hon . .Brown Silas Theodore, grocer cil & assistant overseer sec.), East Chickerell .COurage Thomas Jas. farmer, Putton Raishley Alfred Joseph, bricklayer Wheeler Henry, grocer --cHIDEOCK is a parish and exceedingly picturesque and on the -west wall facing the gate is a representation -village, on a brooklet, called the Winniford: it lies in of the "Crucifixion," the work of the late Mr. Charles .a valley betwoon the hills of Quar, Eype Down and Weld. The Roper charity, founded in 1855, consists of 'Thorncombe on the east and Haddon Hill and Golden a sum of £200, invested in -Consols, the proceeds from 'Cap on the west, and is bounded on the south by the which are distributed on St. Thomas' day to sick and English Channel: it is 3 miles west from Bridport. needy poor persons belonging to the Church of England -station on the branch ot the Great Western railway in food and clothing; James Foss, who died in 1902, lfrom Maiden Newton, and 6 ~ast from Lyme Regis, in also bequeathed £2oo, which sum was invested in Con­ the Western division of the county, hundred of Whit- sols in Dec. 1902, and the proceeds are devoted to ~hurch Canonicorum, Bridport union, petty sessional the maintenance of the church, repairs &c. Here are .division and county court district, rural deanery of the remains of the moat of Chideock Castle, the ancient .JJridport (Lyme portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and seat of the de Chideocks and Arundells, erected in 1379 .diocese of Salisbury. The village, which is on the road by John de Chideocke: during the -Civil wars Chideock lfrom Bridport to Charmouth and Lyme Regis, is Castle was often taken and re-taken by each party. :Supplied with water by a company, with a capital of Chideock Manor House, the property and residence of £450, in shares held by the inhabitants: the -v.ater is Humphrey Frederick Weld esq. J.P. lord of the manor obtained from a spring about a mile distant. Tb.e and principal landowner, stands on the right of the church of St. Giles is an ancient building of stone, road leading to North Chideock, half a mile from the mainly in the Perpendicular style, with traces of earlier parish church, in a park of about 40 acres; attached work, and consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, south to the house is a small chapel for the use of the family .:porch, north transeptal chapel and an embattled western and the Catholic inhabitants of the parish: the interior .tower containing a clock and 5 bells, dating from 1603 ; is richly decorated and contains several good paintings a new clock was provided in r897: the font has a in oil, the work of the late lord of the manor. The -shallow octagonal bowl, supported on a panelled stem: soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat. 'lit the east end of the south aisle is an altar tomb of barley and oats. The area is 1,977 acres of land, I of dark marble, on which rests the figure of a knight in water and 26 of foreshore; rateable value, £3,665; Jllate armour, perhaps representing Sir John Arundell: population in 19II, 535- in the north transept are tln'ee memorial tablets, to SEA TOWN, a hamlet, is 1 mile south; NORTH William Fitzherbert of this parish, gent. dated 1761 ; CHIDEOCK is a hamlet, 1 mile north. Simeon Bullen esq. 1822, and John Bullen esq. 1852: Sexton, John Grinter. othe organ was erected in 1893, at a cost of £r9o: there E D 1· Offi -Ch 1 are five stained windows: in 188o the church underwent Post, M. 0., T. & xpress e Ivery ce. ar es -a thorough. restoration, under the superintendence of Gibbs, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Bridport Mr. G. R. Crickmay, architect, of Weymouth, at a at 7-45 a.m. & 3·55 p.m.; dispatched at I 0·25 a.m. total cost of about £r,roo; during the course of the & 4-55 p.m. week days only -work a rude painting was discovered on the north wall: Wall Letter Box, Seatonn, cleared at 8.30 a.m. & 4·4() p.m. week days only in r883 a new chancel was built, at a cost of £6oo, Pillar Letter Box, North Chideock, cleared at 8 'from designs by Mr. G. R. Crickmay: the church ·15 a. m. affords 270 sittings. The register dates from the year & 4·45 p.m. week days only "1654. The living is a vicarage, net income £IBS, with County Police, Waiter R. Drake, constable residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Salisbury, and Schools. 'held since 1913 by the Rev. -Cecil Frederic Urquhart Elementary (mixed), built in 1843 & enlarged in 189r, M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. There is a Catholic for 140 children; John Charles Bucknall, master -chapel, dedicated to Our Lady of Martyr!l and St. Catholic, for 70 children; Miss Mary Fenwick, mistress Ignatius, and a Wesleyan chapel. North of the church, -Conveyance.-Omnibus to Bridport from Lyme Regis ·and separated by a wall from the churchyard, is the passes daily (sunday excepted) at 11.40 a.m. & reaches Catholic cemetery, which has a small cruciform here on its return from Bridport to Lyme at 5 p.m mortuary chapel, the private property of the Weld I Carriers to Bridport.-Walter Samways & John Manning, lamily: the interior is adorned with mural paintings, daily PRIVATlil RESIDENTS. Molineu:x Geo. Wm.Betchvrorth house COMMERCIAL. Barlow James, Yew cottago Pitfield GeorQ"e Raper. Brid~re house Barnes John. farmer. Wanehouse lflindloss Mrs. Myrtle cottage Roper Rev. William M.A. Beech ho farm (lett.Pr!l through Morcombe­ ·coghlan Rev. Patrick (Catholic), Sargent Edmund Pitzgerald, The lake. Cbarmouth, Dorset) Ballysogarthmore Warren Bartlett Joseph, jobmaster Feeny Miss, Seatown cottage Urquhart Rev. Cecil Frederic M.A.. Bishop Joseph, shoe maker Forster Mrs. Sea View cottage (vicar). Vicarage. . Bishop RAm. ht>er. retailer "Gerard Miss, W e«t cottage van Sandau Freder1ck, Whrte cot Bugler Reginald George, Anchor inn,. Nevers Thomas, W elderlev • • Weld HnmphreyFrdk. J.P. Manor ho• Sratowr.