1192 LO~G BlJRTO~. DORSETSHIRE. [KELLY'S

LONG BURTON is a p:uish situate] on the road from \ Colle~e, Oxford. HerJ is n. lresleyan chapilI. The great Sherborne to DOTchester. 3 miles south-east-by-south from tithes of Long Burton (commuted value), £123, and of Sherborne, 9 miles south-east from Yeo\'il, and 14 north Holnest. £140, belong to the lay impropriator, J. K. lJ. from Dorchester, in the Northern division of the county, Wingfield-Digby esq. J.P. The manor belongs to \ranley hundred, union and petty sessional division of Sherborne, Ellis ~awbridge-Erle-Drax esq. J. P. of Holnest Park. Th& county court district of Yeovil, rural deanery of Shaftesbury principal landowners are Wanley Ellis Sawbridge-Erle-Drax Stalbridge portion, archdeaconry of Dorset, and dioc2se e~q. J. K. D. Wingfield-Digby esq. J.P. of Sherborne Castle of Salisbury. The ChUTth of St. James the Great is a stone and H. J. n. S. King esq. The soil and subsoil are corn­ building, consisting of chancel with chancel aisle, nave with hrash and Oxford clay. The land is principally in pasture. south porch and north ai~le, and an embattled western tower The area i3 I,()25 acres; rateable value, £1,528; the popu­ containing 4 bells: the church contains several monuments lation in 1881 was 379. to the Fitzjames family, and was restored in 1873. with th~ Pari~h C:erk, Thomas Loader. addition ot the north aisle, at a cost of £ 1,437: the chancel POST OFFICE.-l\liss Lydia Perrott, recJiver. Letters by aisle is Jacobean, and the tower arch Early English; the messenger from Sherborne, at 7.50 a.m. ; sunday, 8.5e> rest of the church is iu the Perpendicular style: there are a.m. ,dlspat(;h~d at 5.45 p.m. ; sunday, LIS p.m. Tile sittings for 200. The register dates from the year 1590. nearest money order & telegraph office is at bl13rborne The living is a discharged vicarage, with the chapelry of Public Elementary School (mixed), with residence for mis- Holnest annexed, joint gross yearly value £270, net £20U, tress, built in 1852, for 95 children; average attendancJ, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. l'apworth, and held since 60; under the management of thJ Rev. C. H. Mayo M.A..; 1872 by the H.e,-. Charles Herbert .Mayo M.A. of Lincoln Miss 1\-lary llJ.iley, mistress Lemon Robert, Glenwood Down Thomas, farmer Hayward Oliver, stone mason Mayo Rev_ Chas. Herbert M.A. Vicarage Foot Edwin Arthnr, baker & corn dlr Lock Thomus, shoe maker Thorne Sydney, Ferndale house Francis Hy. dairyman, Little Burton Ridout Francis, shopkeeper lOMMIU,CIAL. GouH Charles, farmer Sherston Alfred, carpenter Curtis George, smith Hann Geurge, R03e & Crown P.H White George, farmer, Leweston farm Deacon Joseph, basket maker Hawkins Char:es, farmer Young James, carpenter CANFORD MAGNA is a village and parish. pleasantly IThe soil is light loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are si~uated on the river btour, having a station (Bmadstone) wheat., barley and 'fartarian oats. The area of the parioh IS on the London amI South Western main line, whence the 16,633 acres (chietly heath); area of Canford Magna, witl, Somerset and Dorset railway diverges, 6 miles north-by- Knighton, Moretown and Oakley, 7,678 acres of land and cast from Poole, 2 south-east from Wimborne and II5~ from 375 of water; rateable value, £8,501; population III 188I~ London, in the Eastern division of the county, Cugdean 1,107. hundred, Wimborne petty sessional dif'isign, l'oole union UPTOS is a hamlet on the shore of Holes bay, in the parishes and county court di"trict, rural deanery of Whitchurch of Canford Magna and Corfe Mullen. Poole portion, archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salis- KNIGHTO~ is 1~ miles south-east. To the south is a great bury. The ancient parish church (not dedicated) is Norman, heath or down; on it are Figbury, Hawkesbury, Lush and and is a picturesque-looking stone structure, with a low other barrows. tower, containing 5 bells: it contains several monuments Parish Clerk, James Bord. and brassei : a stained window at the east end has been in- POST & T. O.-YIiss ~arah Flux, receiver. Letters received serted to the memory of Sir J. John Guest bart. and a north from Wimborne at 7 a.m. ; dispatrhed at 7 p.m. w~k. window to AUgustllS F. Guest esg. : the whole church was days only. The nearest money order ollic} i" at Wim- restored and the west end rebuilt of red sandstone, and two borne. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid porches erected over the north and south doors in 1876-78 POST O},'FICE, llroadstolle.-Louis l"rench, receiver. Letters by Lord Wimborne, then Sir Ivor B. Guest bart.: there are retei"ed at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched at 7 p.1Il. week ddys 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1656. The only. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid Iiving is a vicarage, gross yearly value from tithe rent- SCHOOLS:- charge £420, with 10 acres of glebe and residence, in the National (mixed), Canford, built in 1866, by Sir h'or n. gift of Lord "imborne, and held since 1884 by the Re". Guest bart. for 100 children; average attendance, 87; I!r. John Lewis Williams M.A. of Jesus College, Oxford. There partly sup)orted by Lord Wimborne; l\Iiss Edith Jtose~ are Congregational and Wesleyan chape:s here. Canford mistress manor, the seat of Lord Wimborne D.L., J.P. who is lonlof National (mixed), Broudstone, built in 1872, by Lord Wim- the manor and prim:ipal landowner, i,; a fine mansion, borne, for 220 children; average attendance, 130; &. standing in a park of 800 acres; this seat was formerly a IJartly supported by Lord Wimhorne ; Wm.Wheeler, mast. nunnery. Merly Hall is the seat of the Mi"ses Wienholt. Railway Station, llro.tdstone, Hd. Churcher, station IJ.dster Canford Magna. ICrasp Thomas, landscape gardener Broadstone. [Kam(s marked thus"" receive their letters Fenner John Holmes, farmer, Oakley Baines Lieut.-Col. James Bdgar through Poole ~ Ford Alfred, builder, farmer & assistant Brown iVIi8s, llurtorr 'Wimborne Lord M.A., D.I", J.P. Canford I Of'erseer, Merly cottage llyan Gtlorge 'I'ranler manor; & Wimborne ho. Arlington Ford Walter ll. builder Gates Mrs. Lydiate street sw; & Carlton, St. Stephen's Hibberd ·Wm. By. farmer, ~ranor farm L10yd Rev. \\ illiam [Baptist] & Athenreum clubs, London sw I*Howell Edward,iron foullder,"Yaterloo Lucas Mrs. Heathtield house *Bengough John Charles, Upton house I foundry, near Poole Scutt Mrs. Lindisfarne *Howell Edward, Plainfield house Hoare James, farmer, Rushcombe Waterman Hev. Ueorgil [Presbyterian] *Howell Edward, jun. Laurel cottage Long Jas. farm bai~ifttoL')rdWimborne Waterman William Wienholt Miss, l\'lerly hall Meaby Fanny (Mrs. I, toffee rooms Churcher Rd. stationmaster, llroadstone Wienholt Miss ElIen, Merly hall IMenzies Hobert, Willett Arms P.R Collingwood Thomas, Railway hotel Williams Rev. John Lewis M.A. [vicar I PatersonCha~.steward toLordWimborne French Louis, grocer &c. I'ost office & rural dean] ISharland Emanuel, farmer, Creekmoor Uriffin Elias Sharland, shupkeeper COMMERCIAL. Soper George, cowkeeper, Creekmoor Gritlin William,temperallce restaurant; Allen John, cowkeeper Sw~·ers Alllbrose, farmer, Creekmoor erery conf'eniellCe, cluse to raily.statn Anstin Charles, farmer, Lake farm Tawse Robert, clerk of works to Lord I Harwuuu WiIliam, higgler Baker Wm.market gardener,C'reekmoor I 'Wimborne Hoare Henry, carpenter Chinchen John Albert, bric~ & ti:e Whittle William John, farmer & cattle Lloyd Robert, bricklayer maker, Gravel hill dealer, 1\lerly farm Lloyd WilIiam, colporteur Ch;ssell 'fom, farmer, Oakley farm Wren llenj.gamekpr. to Lord Wimborne Musgra,-e Albert Hichd.liapper,t~cher Colef>Geo.Case,miller(water),Creekmoor IYeatman William Henr~" miller of music *Cottingham John, farmer, Upton (water), Canford mits Sharland Blias, brick maker CANN (or SHASTON ST. RmIIDOLD) is a parish, 3~ miles representing The Agony in the Garden, The Crucifixion south from Semley station on the Salisbury and Yeovil and The Ascension, given by the law Edwin Thomas, for­ branch of the ~outh Western railway, adjoining Shaftesbury merly of this pari"h, also a monument erected to the melliory to the south, and is comprised within the Northern rlh'ision I of a late rector, the Hev. William Rigden and his SOlI, \\ IIl13lU of the county, hundred of Sixpenny Handler, petty sessional, Gregsoll Rigden and other monuments to the Bowles family. division, union and county court district of Shaftesbury, rural' all erected in the 18th century: there are sittings for 2j() deanery of ~haftesbury, archdeaconry of Dorset aud dioceso persons. The register dates from theyear 1563. The livlllg of Salisbury. The roads from Shaftesbury to Salisbury and, is a rectory, yearly value £2-t5, with residence, in the ~ift of Blandforrl pass through this parish. The church of St. the Earl of Shaftesbnry, and held since 1878 by the Rev. Rumbold was built upon the old site in 1840 and is a stone \YilIiam Darby K.C.L. Here are two Primitive MethodISt. building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, c3apels, which will e,ICh seat 100 persons. Market gardelllng nave, with square embattled western tower containing 6 is carried on here. There are two flour mills. Sir Richard bells: there is one stained east window of three lights, I George Glyo bart. D.L.,J.P. is the principal landowner. The