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Huxter Mary Annie (Mrs.), shop- Lee Thomas, farmer, Lower Sprake Frederick, farmer, Atrim frm keeper, Broad Oak Loud Clifford H. farmer, Vearse frm Warren Chas. boat owner, Low. Eype Independent Order of Oddfellows, Loyal Miller Hubert John, farmer, Higher Warren George, gardener to Major Victoria Lodge, No. 6,546 (P. G. Moorbath D. K. E. Hall Fry, sec) Payne Louisa (:Mrs.), apartments, Warren Richd. boat owner, Low. Eype Johnson Alfred, farmer I Lower Eype Warren Robt. boat owner,Lower Eype Jourdain Raymond Oliver B.A.Can- Phillips Charles Tamer, farmer Warren Wm. boat owner, Lower Eype tab. private tutor, Sea View, Eype Rendall John Bartlett, fanner, Watton Westcott George, boot repairer Knight Thomas. farmer, North end . Silk William, shoe maker, New street Willy John, farmer, Atrim (or Preston Crawford) 'is Tarrant Keynston. In the village are the remains of a parish taking its name from the river Tarrant, which an old cross. In I228 Richard Poore, successively here joins the Stour, I! miles north-by-east from Spetis- bishop of Chichester, Salisbury and Durham, who was bnry station on the Somerset and (Midland and born, died and was buried here, rebuilt and re-endowed South-Western joint) railway and 3! south-east-by-east the Cistercian nunnery in honour of the Blessed Virgin from Blandford, in the Eastern division of the county, and .All Saints; it was originally founded here in the hundred of Badbury, petty sessional division of Wim- time of Henry I. by Ralph de Kahaynes, lord of the borne, union and county court district of Blandford, rural manor of the neighbouring village of Keynston ; at the deanery of Pimperne (Blandford portion), archdeaconry Dissolution its revenue was estimated at £239 IIS. 10d. of Dorset and diooese of Salisbury. The church of St. Joan, Queen of Alex. II. of Scotland and sister of Mary is an ancient edifice of stone and flint, in the Early Henry Ill. was buried here in I238. Wanley Ellis Saw­ English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch bridge-Erle-Drax esq. of Wye, Ashford, Kent, is lord and a western tower containing 3 bells, which were re- of the manor and principal landowner. Soil, light clay; hung in 1911: the chancel was restored in I895-6, and subsoil, chalk and gravel. Crops, wheat and barley. in course of the work an aumbry and a piscina ~ere The area is 543 acres; rateable value, £28GJ; the popu­ discnvered: the nave, tower and porch were restored lation in I90I was 47· in 1911: there are sittings for 88 persons. The register Parish Clerk, Arthur Carter. dates from the year I597· The living is a perpetual Letters through Blandford arrive at 7·15 a.m. & I p.m.; curacy, net yearly value .£38, in the gift of Wanley the nearest money order & telegraph office is at Spetis- Ellis Sawbridge-Erle-Drax esq. and held since 1905 by bury, about 1 mile distant the Rev. Philip Bernard Wingate M.A. of Worcester The children attend the schools at Tarrant Keynston &: College, Oxford, who is a]so rector of and re:Jides at Shapwick Drake John William, farmer, Tarrant abbey is a parish, 6 "miles north- tensive remains of a British village exist on the east­ east from Blandford station on the Midland and South- of the Long Barrow; and in a field called "Barton Hill," Western joint railway, in the Northern division of the the Wilts .Archreological Society unearthed in 1845 par­ county, hundred of Cranborne, petty sessional division, tions of a Roman temple and habitations of considerable nmon and county court district of Blandford, rural size, extending over an area of nearly 20 acres. The Manor . deanery of Pimperne (Blandford portion), archdeaconry House, adjoining the church, is a substantial residence, of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. restored by the late H. R. Farquharson esq. M.P. and Mary is a building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, at present the residence of Francis Hughes-Gibb esq. consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, south J.P.; it stands in grounds of 74 acres. H. F. W. Far­ ptJrch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, quharson esq. is lord of the manor and sole landowner. containing 3 bells: the church was rebuilt, with the ex- The soil is light chalky loam; subsoil, chalk. The chief ception of the tower, in 1845, and renovated in I885 and crops are oats and wheat. The area is 3,431 acres; 1Bgo: the organ was the gift of the Rev. W. H. Hitchcock rateable value, £2,772; the population in I90I was 303. M.A. late rector, 1889-I900: there are 370 sittings, STUBHAMPTON, half a mile north from Tarrant 288 being free. The register dates from the year I7I9. Gunville, and EASTBURY are tithings. The living is a rectory, net income £3n, with residence Sexton, Charles Giles. and about 2! acres ot glebe, in the gift of University Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Mrs. S. Ridout, sub-post- College, Oxford, and held since 1905 by· the Rev. John n1istress. Letters arrive from Blandford at 7·45 a.m. Lewis Rhys B.A. of St. David's College, Lampeter. & 1 p.m. ; dispatched at 10.25 a.m. & 5·55 p.m.; Eastbury Park is the seat of Henry Frank Ward Farqu- sundays at II.I5 a.m harson e:sq. J.P.: the house, of which but one wing · Elementary School (mixed), built in 1874, for 70 chil- now remains, was erected by Lord Melcombe, from de- dren ; average attendance, 32 ; Miss Bessie Matthews, signs by Sir J. Vanbrugh I724-38, at the cost of mistress £I4o,ooo; the park comprises about IOO acres. Ex- Carrier to Blandford.--William Sansom, thurl'!. & sat Clarke Henry, steward to H. F. W.l Hill Brothers, farmers PlUVA'I'E RESIDENTS. Farquharson esq. J.P Meatyard Henry, dairy farmer Carr Cedric Kettlewell, The Kennels Cooper George, estate carpenter Ridout Henry, bead gardener to Fra& Farquharson Henry Frank Ward J.P. gverett George, mason Hughes-Gibb esq Eastbnry park Fletcher Charles, farm bailiff to Fras. Ridout Tom, carpenter Hughes-Gibb Francis J.P. Manor ho Hughes-Gibb esq. Glebe farm Sansom William, carrier Rhys Rev. John Lewis B. .A. Rectory Hardiman Jas. farmer, Bussey Stool Sims Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper Harding George, head gardener to Thorne Edward, blacksmith COJifMERCIAL. H. F. W. Farquh.arson esq. J.P Tory Percy,farmer, Marlborough frm Belbin Henry Geo. Bugle Horn P.H Harding James, head gamekeeper to Wareham Waiter, farmer, Dungrove Butler John, farmer, Drove Barn irm H. F. W. Farquharson esq. J.P I is a parish on the road from reopened on St. Thomas' day, I892: there are 150 sit­ Blandford to Salisbury, ani on the river Tarrant, 4! tings. The register dates lirom the year 1545, and there miles north-east from Blandford station on the Midland is a list of rectors from I3I4· The living is a rectory, and South Western Junction railway, in the Northern nPt yearly value £254, including 83 acres of glebe, with division of the county, hundred of Pimperne, Blandford residence, in the gift of Pembroke College, Cambridge. petty sessional division, union and county court district, and held since I9II by the Rev. Basil Hankey B.A. of rural deanery of Pimperne (Blandford portion), arch- Pembroke College, Cambridge. The remains of a deaconry -of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The Roman villa have been discovered, and spear-heads, church of St. Mary is an edifice of stone in the Early fibulre and Roman coins have occao;ionally been turned English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, up. H. F W. Farquharson esq. of Tarrant Gunville .. with north chapel, nave of three bays with south is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is aisle and small two-storied annexe with priest's li~ht; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat and chamber, south porch, and an embattled western barley. The area is 2,227 acres; rateable value, tower containing 3 bells, one of which, said to £I,g28; the population in I90I was I85. have been found in a neighbouring field during Sexton, William Atwell. the time of the Commonwealth, has an ancient Latin Post Office. Harry Spinney, sub-postmaster. Letters inscription: on the north side of the chancel is an arrive from Blandford at 6.55 a.m. & 12.30 p.m.; Easter sepulchre of the reign of Henry VIII. with a dispatched at II a.m. & 6.15 p.m. Tarrant Gunville, Latin inscription; in the south aisle is a Norman piscina: :r mile north, is the nearest money order & telegraph the font of Purbeck marble is also Norman: in I89I-l2 office the church was thoroughly restored, new roofed and Elementary School (mixed), built in 1849, for 40 chil- reseatl'd at a co«t of £8so, under the direction of Mr. dren; average attendance, 30; Miss Rachel White, A. W. N. Burder, architect, of Loughbo_rough, and was mistress DORSET. 14