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[DORSET.) SHILLINGSTONE. 852 [POST OFFICE SHILLINGSTONE (or SHILLING OXEFORD) is a a third lower down on the Blandfol'd road. Lord. Rivers is parish and villaF;e, and station on the Somerset and Dorset lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is clay, Railway, in the hundred of Cranbome, petty sessional chalk, and ~ravel. The crops are chiefly grass, with some division and union of Sturminster Newton, Blandford wheat, barley and roots. The area is 2,223 acres, chiefly county court district, diocese of Salisbury, archdeaconry of pasture ~ gross estimated rental, .£3,538 2s. 7d.; rateable Dorset, and rural deanery of Whitchurcb, 5~ miles north­ value, .£3,123178. 5d.; the population in 1871 was 534. west from Blandford, 4south-east from Sturminstpr Newton, WIVTE H ILL is 1 mile south-east: Gainscross, 2 miles and 11 south from Shaftesbury, situated on the river Stour. south-east. The church of the Holy Rood has a plain exterior and a fine Pari8h Clerk, John Percy. square -tower: the chancel is in the Early En~lish style. The register dates from 1654. The living is a rectory (the titht's have been commuted for £370 yearly, with 71 acres POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank.-John of glebe land and residence), in the gift of Exeter College, Percy, receiver. Letters from Blandford. 1'elegraph Oxford, and held.by the Rev. Edward Arthur Dayman, B.D., office at the railway station of that college. Here is a parish school, and a Wesleyan INSURANCE AGENT.-Scottish Fire ~ WhittingtonLife~ chapel. In the centre of the village there are the remains J. Gentry of an old cross, another in the churchyard, and the base of Parish School, Miss Laura J ohnston, schoolmistress Bernard Francis G Galpin Jane (Mrs.), shopkeepcr Morris William, Seymer Arm." Dayman Rev. EdwardA. :B.D. [rector] Gentry James, machinist, agricultural Robins James, thatcher George Mrs machine 8g-ent, agent for the Whit- Roffey Henry, farmer St. Loe Edward tington Lite & the Scottish Fire Savery William, farmer Warren Mrs Insurance Company Sedlen Robert, farmer Warren Thomas Bleithman Gillingham Ann (Mrs.), farmer Shephard William, timber dealer COMMERCIAL. Gould Thos. beer retailer & boot maker Short Alfred J. tailor Bown Edmund, boot & shoe mal{er Hart Robert, Old O;rinn Stickle Sarah Jane(Miss),New Oxin1l Brown Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Lawrence Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer Stone James, blacksmith Courage Henry, carpenter Longman William, dairyman Trowbridge Henry, mason Cox James, farmer Meaden Henry, blacksmith 'Vareham James, shopkeeper Cox William, farmer Meaden Richard, carter Wareham John, sawyer Dominy George, farmer Melmoth WilIio.m, carpenter Wo.rren Thomas H. farmer Dominy Sohn, farmer Miller Jesse, dairyman Watts Henry, dairyman • SHIPTON GEORGE (or GORSE) is a parish in the The soil is various, chiefly clay and sand; subsoil, lime­ hundred of Godderthorne, Bridport union and county court stone and clay. The chief crops are grass, wheat and oats. district, diocese of Salisbury, archdeaconry of Dorset, and The area is 1,528 acres; gross estimated rental, '£1,728; rural deanery of Bridport, second portion, 2~ miles south­ rateable value, .£1,533; it contained in 1871 a population of east from Bridport. The church of St. Martin is an ancient 381, chiefly engaged in agriculture. stone strlicture, with chancel, nave, north aisle, embattled ST. LUKE'S CHAPF.L,l mile south-east, is in ruins. On tower, and south porch. The register dates from the year Hammerdon Bill is a barrow. 1675. The living is 8 chapelry, annexea to the rectory of Parish Clerk, George Hawkins. Bm'ton Bradstock, joint Ye'drly value .£336, in the gift of Lord Rivers, and held by the Rev. William Christopher Templer, M.A., uf Trinity College, Cambrid~e. Here is a Letters arrive through BridpOl·t by foot post at 9 a.m.; small)iational school. 8hipton Beacon is a high hill, on dispatched at 4 p.lD. Bridp0J:t is the nearest money order which are the remains of an an~ient camp. The Earl of office Ilchester is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. National School, Mrs. Mary Peggin, mistre~s Bartlett J osepll, farmer Mannel John, New inn ISwaffield William, builder & farmer Fursman WaIter, dairyman Pitcher George, dairyman Swaffield 'Villiam, Masons' Arms Gale Joseph Sprake, farmer RusseU George, farmer Symes John, blacksmith Gale Thomas, carpenter Isamways Fredel'ick, farmer Waldon Ellis, farmer, Sturtbill farm Hawkins George, shoe maker Swaffield Richd. frmr.& assist. overseer Westmacott Henry Watson, farmer

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SILTON is B small pari'lh OR the northern border of the of, and held by, the Rev. William J obn Edward Percy, M.A.~ county, in the hundred of Red Lane, Mere union, diocese of of St. John's Colle~e, Cambridge. Here is a National Salisbury, 81'chdeaconry of Dorset, rural deanery, petty school, built at the expense of the rector. Ticking is made sessional division, and county court district of' Shaftesbury, here by a Bourton firm. Miss Chafyn Grove is lady of th& :} miles south-east from Mere,3 north from Gillingham rail­ manor and the principal landowner. The soil is loam; way station, and 7~ north-west from 81I3fte~bury, situated Rubsoil, mart The land is chiefly pasturage. The ar~a. is on the river Stour. The church of St. Nicholafl is a Gothic 1,257 acres; gross estimated rental, £2,427; - rateable structure, seated on an emil1ence, and consists of ehanct'l, value, .£2,162 ; and the population in 1871 was 315. nave, and south aisle, with square tower containing4 bells, STROU D and FurzehilL are to the north; Feltham, to the which is connected with the nave by four arches resting on north-west. cylindrical piers: the church contains an organ, and will Sexton, Joseph Burfitt. seat 160 people: tbe!'e is a fine monument of Judge Wynd­ ham, a Justice of the Common Pleas in the reign of Charles n., also eight handsome stained windows, including Letters should be addressed Silton (Dorset), Bath. The two to former rectors. Date of register, 1653. The living nearest money order office is at Bourton is a rectory, yearly value .£5QO, with residence, in the ~itt Parochial School, MissClJapman, mistress Goddard E. P. Silton lodge Biggin Anna (Mrs.), farmer Meaden Henry, farmer Goddard }Irs. Silton lodge Bi~g'in Nathaniel, farmer Roberts Robert & Edward, farmers, Percy Rev. William John Edward, M.A. Burpitt Daniel, shopkeeper Silton farm [rector], Rectory Cock Samuel, blacksmith Roberts Stephen & EdwardJ millerst Cox George, miller Waterloo mill COMMERCIAL. Dunn Eliza (Miss), farmer Roberts John, farmer :Bell Samuel, farmer HiBcocks Edward Williaru, farmer Still Samuel, carpenter

SPETISBURY is a parish and pleasant village, and river StoUT, over whi~h is a bridge connecting this with station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, in the East Tarrant Crawford. The church ()f St. John the Baptist is' Sbast()R petty sessional division, hundred of Loosebarrow. of flint sod stone, consistiJlg of -cbancel, nave, north aisle, Blandford union and county court district, Whitchurch Jlorcb, and tower, and was rebuilt (with the ~xception of rural deaneryJ Dorset archdeaconry', Imd Salisbury diocese, the tower) in 1859. The earliest register datesfrom 1705. The 3 miles 8outh-east-by-1!('Uth from Hlandford, 11 north-west living is a rectory, with the curacy (If Charltoll Mllrsball an­ from Paole, and 121 miles by rail to London, situate on the nexed, joint yearly value (gross) £750, with good residence,

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