DIRECTORY.] DORSETSHIRE. CHILD OKEFORD• 119 • the Gollop family, and William Colfox, of . Post Office, Salway Ash.-Ernest Gale, sub-postmaster. The soil is light sandy loam; subsoil, sand. The chief Letters from R.S.O. arrive at 9 a.m.; crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area of the dispatched at 3.25 p.m. Neither delivery nor dispatch entire parish is 6,189 acres; rateable value, £13,617; on sundays. Bridport is the nearest money order & iD 1891 the population was 1,454, including . telegraph office Parish Clerk, James Woodland. Clerk to the Truste~s of the charity, Rober. Bowood is a tithing, 2 miles west; Waytown, a mile Leigh esq. Beaminster south; Kershay, 2 miles south-west. Salway Ash is a tithing, 3 miles south. Here is Holy Schools. Trinity chapel of ease, a building of stone in the Early N d . 6 &•d bl English style (consecrated October, 9), consisting of ational (mixed), erecte ID 18 3 conSl era yen- 188 larged in 1879, with house for master, for 120 chancel, nave, south porch and western bell turret, children; average att~ndance, 90 ; William Henry with one bell: there are sittings for 220 p!!rsons. Munson Dodd, master Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office, Netherbury.-William Hawkins Wallbridge, sub-post- ~ational (imxed), Salway Ash, built in 1833 as a chapel master. Letters from Beaminster RS.O. arrive at 8 of ease, & used as a school since 1879; to hold 90 a.m. & 6.10 p.m.; dispatched at 5.45 p.m. The children; average attendance, 60; Mrs. Grace Cooke, nearest telegraph office is at Beaminster mistress I\ETHERBURY Hansford Herbt. Hy. farmr. Waybown Tucker Thos. & Co. twine manufrs. &D . Hansford In. jun. farmer, Stronggate flu spinners, Slape mill, Waytown PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hansford Thomas, farmer, Kingsland Tucker Arthur, miller (water) Blaker Evelyn Borrel', Great Strode Hine Harriet (Mrs.), dl"ess maker Tucker Edwd. Rebt. farmer,Paradis. Butcher The Misses Hodder George, baker Walden Edward, farmer, Marlice Gildea Rev. William M.A. (vicar &. Hussey Thos. farmr. Pine Apple farm Walden John, farmer, Elwell rural dean) Kingman William, farm bailiff to Mr. Waldell Robert, farmer, Lamqrook Gllndry Frederick Waiter, Slape house :1". Sprake, Bidlake Wallbridge Wm. Hawkins, Post office Hooper Col. Willoughby Wallace, Lawrence Joseph, farmer, Furley frm Warr In. jun. Rising SUTh P.R. & Hatchlands house Lenthall Henrv. farmer, South Bowood carpent-er, South Bowood Hussey John, Chantry house Lenthall In.Hy.dealer &c.8th. Bowood Warr William, .shoe maker, Bowood Miller Miss, Waytown Macey David, carpenter & wheelwrght Wa,rren Charles, farmer, Ford! fa.rm Parsonil John Whitwell, The Cross Macey William, collector of poor rates \Yarren Henry, farmer, ltershay Pearse Reginald Wm. RA. (curate) & taxes, Clenham . Warren Sidney, farmer, Perry farm Smith Norman Dickson, Waytown vil Manfield WaIter, farmer, Wooth farm Webbei' Wm. Blue Ball P.H. Dottery Taylor Anthony Marsh John, farmer, Higher Pymore (Postal address, Bridport) CO:\IMERCIAL. Miller Samuel, dairy, Bidlake Wilmot In. Symes, frmr. Silkhay fm Morris Rachel (Mrs.), farmer,Lavinces Willmott Mary (Miss), shopk,eeper Ashford Thomas, farmer & cattle dlr. farm Woodland Chas. Crook inn, Yondover Waytown Rawles Tom, dairy, Churchground Woodland! John, beer retlr. Yondover Budden Benjamin, farmer, Waytown Rawlings Robt.frmr.& poulterer, Woolmington George, blacksmith Budden Matthew, farmer, Brinsome Read \Yilliam, tailor & draper Budden William, farmer, Kershay Roberts William, farmer, Elwell SALWAY ASH. Bugler Robert, farmer, Strode farm Salisbury Alfd. C. farmer, 81ape farm Chaffey James, New inn Salisbury William, farmer, ·Way farm COMMERCIAL. Chard & Sons, bakers & grocers Samways John &; Hugh, farmers, Balwn Robert John, butcher Chard ehas. beer retailer & thatcher Luccombe BrakC\ John, farmer, Limbury Cooke Ellen (Mrs.), farmer, Pumice Shugar Thomas, farmer Hansford Barnard, thatcher Cooke In.Fathers,frmr.Churchground Spencer John,carpenter & wheelwright, Hallsford Marwood, farmer, Morgan'a Dare Francis, farmer, Filford farm Kingsland I,awIi farm Davy John Chilcott, farmer, Yondover Sprackling Alec, mason Russell Bowden, threshing mach.ownr DawbneyMalachi,farmer,Hingsdon frm Sprackling James, mason l\radin Arthur, farmer, Pavaland frm Douch Henry, farmer, Ford farm Sprackling Thomas, mason Scadding John, farmer Eveleigh William, beer retailer Steel George, dairy, Yondover Snook Jesse, farmer Garrett George, farmer Symes Robt.thrashing machine owner, Spencer Albert, farmer & blacksmith Groves Peter, dairy, Kingsland White Cross Spencer Samuel, farmer Gould Stephen, carpenter Tolley William, boot maker Stroud Du,id, beer retailer Grinter Thomas, farmer, Hope farm Travel'S Malachi, Hare & Hounds P.R. Wheller Bu\.den, farmer Hallett Thirza (Miss),shopkpr.Waytwn Waytown Wheller William, Anchor inn Hansford Edwd. farmer, Nth. Bowood 'l'ravers Thos. blacksmith, Waytown Willy Vincent,farmel',l1roadenham frm OBORNE is a parish on the borders of Somersetshire, of King's College, Cambridge. Charities of £6 I2S. It miles east-north-east from Sherborne station on the yearly, arising from £100 left in 1842 by John Pitman and South Western railway, I~ west from Mil- of this parish, and £100 bequeathed in 1854 by the Rev. borne Port and 7 east-by-north from Yeovil, in the John Parsons, a former vicar, are distributed in cloth­ Northern division of the county, hundred, petty sessional ing. The whole of the parish belongs to Caius College. division and union of Sherborne, county court district Cambridge, who are also lords of the manor. The soil i. of Yeovil, rural deanery of Shaftesbury (Sherborne por- oolite; subsoil, oolite. The chief crops are wheat and tion), archdeaconry of and diocese of Salisbury. barley. The area is 607 acres; rateable value, £1,176; Pope Eugenius mentions this place by the name of the population in 1891 was 130. Wobourn in 112\-5, and the bull of Alexander Ill. men- Parish Clerk, George Lambert. tio~s Woborne in. 13?3. Th~ church of St. C?thbert, r~- Post Office.-Miss Kate Chant, sub-postmistress. Letters bUIlt on a new: s~te III 1862 ID the Early EnglIsh style, IS through Sherborne arrive at 6.53 a.m. &; 1.30 p.m. &; of. stone, conslstmg of chancel, nave. ~nd south po.rc?, are dispatched at 1I.IS a.m. & 6.25 p.m.; sundays. bell-turre~ ID WIth small western contal!1 g one bell. ID arrive at 7.50 & 8.10 a.m. alternately, dispatched at t?e. chancel are three fine stamed wmdows: there are 2.15 p.m. The nearest money order &; telegraph office ~lttm~s for I~9 persons.. The chancel of the old church is at Sherborne IS still standmg, and IS used as a mortuary chapel. . .. The register dates from the year 1567. The living is a PIllar Letter Box, OppOSIte VICarage, cleared at 9 a.m. rectory, average tithe rent-charge £89, gross yearly &; 6·5 p.m value £1I8, net £99, with residence and 8 acres of glebe, National School (mixed), with residence for mistress, in the gift of J. K. D. Wingfield-Digby esq. M.P. and for.')2 children; average attendance, 43; Miss ha- held since 1894 by the Rev. Frank Benet Phillips M.A. bella Elliott, mistress Bugg Walter Pike Charles Chant Sarah (Miss), farmer Hall Edmund CmJMERCIAL. Dunford George, farmer Phillips Rev. Frank Benet M.A.(rectr) Berry Herbert, farmer Toop Mark. farmer, Grange farm CHILD OKEFORD is a parish and village, on the court district, rural deanery of Shaftesbury (Sturminster river Stour, 1 mile north-east from the Shillingstone Newton portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese fltation on the Midland and South Western Joint railway, of Salisbury. The church of St. Nicholas is a plain sub­ 4 miles south-east from Sturminster Newton, and 6 stantial edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, con­ north-west from Blandford, in the Northern division of sisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south the county, hundred of Redlane, petty sessional division porch, with a fine old western embattled Norman tower and union of Sturminster Newton, Blandford county: containing 6 bells, which were hung to commemorate

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