• 2~4 WAHMWELL. DORSETSHIRE. [KELLY's WARMWELL is a village and parish, 3 miles south- held since 1901 by the Rev. Robert Jocelyn Pickard­ west from Moreton station on the Bournemouth and Wey- I Cambridge M.A. of Keble College, Oxford. Warmwell mouth section of the London and South W astern railway House, a mansion of stone in the Elizabethan style, and 6 south-east from Dorchester, in the Southern divi- erected in 16oo, and standing in grounds of 4 acres, is sion of the county, hundred of Winfrith, Dorchester petty the residence of Lord Wynford J.P. Mrs. Pryor, of sessional division, union and county court district, rural Dorchester, is lady of the manor and principal land­ deanery of Dorchester (Weymouth porhon), archdeacunry owner. The soil is clay; subsoil, chalk and gravel. of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The church of the The chief crops are wheat, oats and turnips. The area Holy Trinity is a small fabric of stone, in the Early is 1,532 acres; rateable value, £1,221; the population English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch, in 1901 was 133. and a low western tower containing 4 bells; it was Post & T. Offi.ce.-Mrs. Bessie Baggs, sub-postmistress. repaired and reseated in 1851; the chancel was rebuilt Letters received from Dmchester, arrive at 5.40 a.m. in 1881 at a cost of £1,300, defrayed by the Rev. E. & 2.45 p.m. Box cleared at 6 a.m. & 7.10 p.m.; sun- Pickard-Cambridge, then rector, to whose wife a memorial days, 1st delivery only. Broadmayne, 2 miles distant, window has been erected; there is also a memorial brass, is the nearest money order office erected in 1901, to the late Rev. Joseph Wood, rector here Elementary School (mixed), with residence for mistress, I895-1900: the tower was almost entirely rebuilt and the erected in 1863, for 34 children; average attendance bells rehung in 1887, at the -:ost of Lieut.-Col. A. B. 31 ; Miss Kate E. Dawkins, mistress Foster: there are 120 sittings. The register dates from the year r64r. The living is a rectory, with that of W ATERCOMBE, r mile south, formerly extra-paro­ Poxwell annexed, joint net yearly value £2so, including chial, is now a parish in Dorchester union, but ecclesi­ SS acres of glebe in Warmwell, with residence, in the astically attached to Warm well; area, 400 acres; rate­ gift of Mrs. F. G. A. Lane, of Blo:xworth House, and able value, £266; the population in 1901 was 32. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Pickard-Cambridge Rev. Robt.Jocelyn J e:fferis Edgar George, gardener to Wynford Lord J.P. Warmwell house; M ..A. (rector), Rectory Lord Wvnford J.P & Carlton & Army & Navy clubs, Rolph .Arthur, Mill house Knowles- Alfred Goodall, miller (watr) London S W COMMERCI.AL. Scutt Alfred J. farmer, Watercombe Meysey-Thompson Miss, Beech house House Albert John G. dairyman, Wakeley George, farm bailiff to Mrs. Beech dairy Pryor, Beech farm WEST BAY, see Bridport. WEST MOORS, see Verwood. WEYl\IOUTl-I and MELC()MBE BEGIS WEYMOUTH and _Melcombe Regis are parishes which situated on the northern side of the harbour, and takes form a seaside resort and seaport and a municipal its name from an old mill which formerly existed here: bol'Ough, union and market town, the whole being the suffix "Regis," from its having formed part of a royal usually known as Weymouth, which is head of a county domain, but at the period of the Domesday survey, it was court district, in the Southern division of tlie county, included in the parish of Radipole. Dorcbester petty sessional division, hundred of Culliford Weymouth takes its name from the river Wey, over Tree, rurol deanery of Dorchester (Weymouth portion), which and connecting it with Melcombe Regis, is a • archdea.conry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury, 8 bridge, reconstructed and widened in 1885. The town miles south from Dorchester, 20 wuth-east from is situated on the English Channel, at the western side Bridport, 24 south-west from Blandford, 20 south-west of a beautiful and expansive bay, which forms a semi­ from Wareham, 22 south from Sherborne, 28 west-by- circle, making a sweep of upwards of 2 miles, and shel­ south from Poole and 128 by road and 145! by rail tered by a range of hills to the north and the Isle of from London, on the London and South Western railway, Portland to the south. The site of the town is supposed and the Wilts and Somerset branch of the Great to have been known to the Romans: its existence in the Western railway, the joint station being at the north time of the Saxons is undoubted, and in the time of end of the town. Edward Ill. it became a place of consequence : during the Under the provisions of the "Customs Consolidated civil wars it fell alternately into the hands of the King and Act, 1876" and by an Order in Council of 6th December, the Parliament, and subsequently to this ~eriod it sank 1881, Weymouth was constituted a port, the limits to gradually into decay and was merely an moonsiderable commence at Alban's Head, county of Dorset, being fishing town, till it began to acquire celebrity as a the western limit of the port of Poole, and to extend fashionable bathing-place through its beautiful situation in a westerly direction along the coast of Dorset to and its convenience for sea-bathing, and in 1789 George the western bank of the river Char in the same county, Ill. and his family made it their summer residence, ar..d being the eastern limit , of the port of Exeter and to having Pxperipnced great bPnefit from its air and sea­ include the Island of Portland. bathing, frequently honoured it with their presence: The borough includes the parishss of Weymouth and from these circumstances the reputation of the town Melcombe Regis. By Local Government Board Order, was restored, and in a few years it was rebuilt and No. P. 1,o8o, which was confirmed by Local Govern enlarged to mePt the demands of its numerous and ment Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 13) Act, distinguished visitors. and came into opera.tion gth November, 1895, the muni- The Harbour is protected on the south-east by a cipal borough was extended to include parts of the civil concrete breakwater, extending about 500 feet in a parishes of East Radipole and Wyke Regis (Westham); northerly direction, from the Nothe fort; a pier, con­ part of East Radipole being added to Melcombe Regis structed partly of· stone and partly of ..:piling, forms the civil parish, and part of Wyke Regis to Weymouth civil entrance to the north side of the harbour and the Nothe parish. forms the south-west side; the harbour at present affords Weymouth and Melcombe Regis were separate boroughs a depth of 13 feet of water at [ow tide and 19 feet at until the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when, o!"l J.ccount of ordinary spring tide, so that the port is available to their constantly conflicting interests, especially with re- vessels of 2,000 tons. ference to the particular immunities of the haven, they 1 d b A t f p r t d Er The backwater or estuary of the river Wey is, by means were ama gamate Y c 0 ar Iamen ' passe I3 Iz. of a dam, made to form a lake, and has in the centre a (r570·71); this Act was confirmed in the reign of James I. and the corporate privileges, which bad been small island, known as" Swan Island," used as a swannery, allowed to lapse, were renewed in 1803 by George Ill. : by and there are at present about 200 swans on the lake, the the "Municipal Corporations Act, I835" (S & 6 Wm. IV. propl'rty of the Corporation. c. 76), the united borough was divided into two wards, The Admiralty has been for some time engaged in the Corporation consisting of a mayor, six aldermen preparing a new torpedo establishment, in connection and 18 councillors; but in 1899 the borough was extended, with which a breakwater near Bincleaves Rocks has and is now divided into four wards, with eight aldermen been constructed. Under Parliamentary powers ob­ and 24 counciilors: Weymuuth and Melcombe Regis tained in the session of 1898, the Great Western each separately returned two members to Parliament, Railway Company commenced work on a new harbour the former from 12 Edwd. 11. (1318-19) and the 1 situated in Portland Roads between the Nothe pro­ latter from 8 Edwd. 11. (1314-15); the united boroughs i montory and this breakwater. Two piers form part subsequently returned two members only until the 1 of the scheme one of them commencing at the sea­ passing of the "Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885" wall near the south-west corner of the Nothe Fort, and (48 & 49 Vict. c. 23), by which the representation was the other starting from the Admiralty breakwater and merged into that of the county. Melcombe Regis is extending into the sea. ' .