78 CORSCO\Corscombe, cleared 5 p.m nave of five bays, south aisle, north porch, and an em­ week days only & at Benville, cleared at 5-So p.m. battled western tower, wtth pinnacles, containing 6 week days only bells : the carved pulpit of Caen stone and marble was Elementary School, Corscombe, built in 1872 & enlarged given by the late George Bullock esq. in 1883, as a in 1893• for 120 children; average attendance, 48; memorial to his wife, who died in 1866: the stained Charles Bacon, master ; Miss Amelia Legg, infants' east window was placed toQ the memory of Edward mistress Berkeley Troyte LL.D. and the west window is also Police Station, John Love, constable stained: there are 226 sittings. The register dates from the year 1595 ; part iS> not legible. The living is a rec­ TOLLER WHELME is an ecclesiastical parish, formed tory, net income £4oo, with 56 acres of glebe and resi­ August I, 1871, from C{)rscombe, from which it is 2! milei dence, in the gift of F. R. Cope esq. of Loughgall, Ar­ south. The church of •St. John, erected in 1870, at the magh, and held since 1899 by the Rev. James Lethbridge expense of the late William Pope esq. is a small edifice of Templer M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, who is also stone·, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel vicar of Toller Whelme. There is a charity of £8 8s. and nave and an embattled western tower, containing 4 left by Dr. Troyte for educational purposes. George small bells : the east and two other windows are stained, Troyte-'Chafyn-Grove esq. of North Ooker, is lord of the and there are sittings for about 6o persons. The register manor and the principal landowner. The soil is various ; dates from the year 1871. The living is a vicarage, subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are oats, barley, wheat net yearly value £38, in the gift of the trustees of the and roots, but the land is principally used for dairy late Rev. W. J. P. Pope, and held since 1899 by the Rev. purposes. The area is s,oo6 acres; rateable value, James Lethbridge Templer M.A. who is also rector of £4,434; the population in 1901 was 543 in the civil and resides at Corscombe. The population in 1901 waa parish, including 42 in Taller Whelme, and 501 in the 42. ecclesiastical parish. Letters for Toiler Whelme, arrive from Beaminster, Parish Clerk, Thomas Davis. Dorset, by messenger at 9 a.m. Nearest post office at Hook, 2 miles distant. Beaminster, about 3 miles BENVILLE is a hamlet 1! miles south-east. distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office

CORSCOMBE. Hawkins George, saddler COMMERCIAL. Templer Rev. James Lethbridge M.A. Holloway Charles J. farmer Barrett Frederick, Talbot inn (rector),_ Rectory Holloway Jn. Thos. frmr.Merryland fm Beater Charles, farmer, Knapp farm Wild Herbert, Weston manor Mead Chas. William, farmer, Dogwell Cox Richard, farmer (postal address, Halstock, Yeovil) Holloway Richd. frmr. Benville farm COMMERCIAL. Mintl'rn Job, blacksmith & farmer, Meech James Matthew, collector, re- Barge Richard, baker Yewtree farm lieving & vaccination officer &; regi.s­ Barrett Clifford S. carpenter Mintern Maurice, farmer, Lower farm tra.r of births & deaths for Ever­ Boatswain John Henry, farmer Osborne Francis, dairyman, Catsley shot sub-district,Beaminster union, Burpitt Ernest B. farmer, assistant Patten Eli, farmer, Court farm Benville cottage overseer & clerk to the Parish Paul Thomas, farmer, Weston farm TOLLER WHELME. Council, Knapp farm Pitt Edward, Fox inn Childs Benjamin, farmer, New house Tarr Robert William, sub-agent to G. (Postal address, Beaminster, Dorset.) Davis Thomas, mason, & post office Troyte-Chafyn-Grove. esq Childs & Wallbridge, dairymen Frampton John, farmer, Urless & Wiggett James, farmer, Norwood Childs Benjamin, farmer Catsley farms Wood Mary Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Day Merthyr Jn. farmer. East farm Gillingham Robert, farmer, Hill farm Eldon Tom Alfred, farmer (postal address, Beaminster ,Dorset) DENVILLE. Mellish Fredk. farmer, Pipsford farm Gulliford Frederick, farmer, Wayland Batley Ralph, Benville manor Wellman Geo. frmr. Toller Down gate

CRANBORNE is a village and large parish, comprising tive Methodist chapels. This parish, f<~rmerly ~he the village and three hamlets, on the borders of Wiltshire largest in the county, was divided in 1894 into three and Hampshire ; it is on the road from Wimborne to separate parishes, respectively Cranborne, Alderholt Salisbury, 4 miles north from Verwood and 4 north-west and Verwood; Cranborne now includes Boveridge, Holwell from Daggons Road stations, on the Salisbury and Dorset and Blagdon, mostly scattered places, and, although branch line of the London and South Western railway, styled hamlets, have no distinctive character such as to 10 north-west from Ringwood, 10 north from Wim­ entitle them to this appellation. Salisbury Hall, borne, and 100 from London, in the Eastern division of thP opened in 1894, which will seat about 300 persons, is county, petty sessional division and county court district used for meetings, concerts &c. Petty sessions for th& of Wimborne, hundred of its name, Wimborne and Cran­ Cranborne sub-division of Wimborne are held at the Con~ borne union, rural deanery of Pimperne (Wimborne por­ stitutional Club, Oranborne, once a month. For list of tion), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. magistrates and places in the division, see Wimborne. The Chase, formerly belonging to Lord Rivers, was dis­ A fair is held annually, on the 6th of December, for franchised in 1830; the river Crane flows through the pleasure. Hutchin's charity provides greatcoats, iD parish. The village is lighted with oil lamps by the parish December, for a number of poor men; another charity council. The church of SS. Mary and Bartholomew (once founded in 1831 by John Miles, affords 38. 6d. each, attached to a monastery, founded about the year g8o) is weekly, to four poor men and four poor women in this a building of stone in mixed styles, from Norman to Per­ parish. At Boveridge are almshouses for five aged per­ pendicular, and consists of chancel (rebuilt in 1875), nave, sons, who have each a weekly allowance of ss. Storey'• aisle~ of six bays, north porch and an embattled western charity of £10 is given in doles of Ios. to poor widows tower containing a clock and 8 bells, :o~ of which were and widowers ; there is also a sum of £5 given in bread added in 18go: the west window is a memorial to Edward on St. Thomas' Day. On the Castle Hill, a little south of Stillingfleet, bishop of Worcester I68g-I7oo, who was the town, is a .circular fortification, with a well near it, born here in 1635 ; and there are othe