DORSETSHIRE. [KELLY's LITTON CHENEY Is a Parish Near the River Bride Bridport Is Derived from This Parish
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116 LITTON CBE NE Y. DORSETSHIRE. [KELLY'S LITTON CHENEY is a parish near the river Bride Bridport is derived from this parish. On the road or Bredy, and near the road from Bridport to Dorchester, from Bridport to Dorchester is the site of an ancient 7 miles east-south-east from Bridport station on the British village; there are earthworks, tumuli, a crom Great Western railway and 10 west from Dorchester, in lech, and a dyke, and at Lower Combe is another the Western division of the county, Uggescombe hun tumulus. There is no manor. T. C. Kerry esq. 1s dred, Bridport union and county court district, Dor the principal landowner. The soil is chalk; subsoil, chester petty sessional division, rural deanery of gravel. The crops are wheat and barley, and some land Bridport (Abbotsbury portion), archdeaconry of Dorset is in pasture. The area is 2,028 acres ; rateable value, and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. Mary is £2,323; the population in rgu was 297 in the civil ando an ancient building of stone, in the Perpendicular 384 in the ecclesiastical parish. style, and consists of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and a lofty embattled western tower containing HIGHER EGGARDON, 4 miles north, where there a clock and 6 bells: the font is formed of the inverted are the remains of an extensive Roman encampment, base of a Norman circular pier; the pulpit has traceried was by Local Government Board Order, March 24, r884~ Perpendicular panels : there is a monument to George transferred to Askerswell. Ashley, I! miles, and Gor Dawbeny, of Gorwell, who died in 1612, brasses to well, 2 miles south-east, have been transferred to Anna Henvill and Margaret Henvill, d. r861 ; and Longbredy. to Ralph Henvill. of Looke, gent. d. 9 Dec. 1644 : the Sexton, George Fry, church was restored in 1878, and affords 220 sittings. The register dates from the year 1624. The living is Post, M. 0., T. & Express :Oelivery Office.-William S. a rectory, net yearly value £550, including 109 acres of Miller, sub-postmaster. Letter:. from Dorchester glebe and residence, in the gift of Col. Sir Robert arrive at 6.40 a.m. & 2.15 p.m.; dispatched at 9.15 Williams hart. M.P. of Bridehead, Dorchester, and held a.m. & 7-25 p.m.; snndays, arrive at 6.4o- a.m.; dis since 1893 by the Rev. Frederick William Crick M.A. of patched at 7.15 p.m Pembroke College, Cambridge. There is a Primitive Elementary School (mixed), endowed with [30 yearly Methodist chapel, erected in 1873, and seating roo from Thorner's charity, w1th residence for master, persons. The poor's land of 8 acres produces £2 10s. built in 1878, for 8o children; Edwin James Brink per annum, which Bum is given in coal to the poor ; worth, master Thorner's cha.ri.ty of £3o per annum is for educa tion, and Thorner's charity of £25 per annum for Carrier to Bridport, A. J. Pitcher, mon. & fri.; to- apprenticing boys of the parish. The water supply for Dorchester, wed. & sat PRIVATE RESIDENTS. r Curtis Mary (Mrs.), grocer Litton Cheney Friendly Society (A_ Baily Frederick, The Cottage Foot George, farmer Gladwyn, sec) Crick Rev. Frederick William M.A~ Fry Elsie (Miss), dresa maker . Masters Robert, miller (water) (rector), Rectory Fry George, carpenter & wheelwnght Miller William Stephen, assistant Legge Henry Benjamin, Court house Fry Richard, farmer, Court farm overseer, clerk to the Parish Coun- Gale Alfred, dairy cil & sub-postmaster Gladwyn Henry, f.armer Moores John Miller (exors. of),bakers, COMMERCIAL. Greening Hy. Watts,White Horse P.H White cross Bligdon William Robert Ellis, farmer, Hallett Joseph, boot & shoe maker Pitcher Alfred J. carrier Bargess farm Hounsell Fred, shoe maker Walden Robert, farmer, Manor farm Curtis George Hoibrook, blacksmith Hussey-Freke John, farmer, Higher Webber Henry, road contractor & agricultural implement repairer I Coombe LODEBIS (or Lothers), with Uploders, is a parish on charity of £4o yearly, and dating from r62o, is collected the Asker river, 2 miles north-east from Bridport from the hamlets of Upton and Uploders, and dis station on a branch of the Great Western railway, tributed as follows: Cerne Abbas and Upcerne, £ro in the Western division of the county, Bridport union, each; Winterborne Came and Farringdon, £ro, and to county court district and petty sessional division, Lougbredy, Littlebredy, Kingston Russell and Uploders hundred of Lothers, rural deanery of Bridport (Brid- £ro. Here was once a Benedictine priory, founded by port portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of R. de Redvers, temp. Henry I. as a cell to Mountburgh: Salisbury. The church of St. Mary Magdalene is an the revenues at the Dissolution were estimated at £So. ancient edifice of stone, in the Perpendicular style, H. K. Colville esq. J .P. is lord of the manor and prin consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, 8'0uth porch cipal landowner. The soil is sand and clay; subsoil, and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells: rocky. The chief crops are barley, oats and wheat, and on the base of the tower is an ancient stone, carved some land in pasture. The area is 2,279 acres; rate with a representation of "The Crucifixion": the font able value, £3,646; the population in rgn was 576 in has a square Norman bowl of Purbeck marble: the the oivil and 750 in the ecclesiastical parish. east window and two others ar"' stained: in 1897 Mrs. Dottery, a hamlet 3 miles west, was, by the "Divided Beamish presented a handsome brass cross and ornaments Parishes Act," transferred for civil purposes to the for the communion table: the church was completely parish of Allingtcn in r884. t•estored during 1901 at a cost of £r.ooo: during the Sexton, Albert Hyde. course of the work a Norman window and doorway, in Post Office, Lower Loders.-Arthur Budden, sub-post- the chancel, were re-opened; an Easter sepulchre and a master. Letters are received through Bridport at hagioscope uncovered, the 'western gallery removed, and 7-I5 a.m. & 3·45 p.m.; d'1spa t c h e d a t 5.30 p.m. ; no the west window restored: above the porch is a priest's dispatch or delivery on sundays. Bridport, 3 miles chamber, with a stairway leading to it : there are 450 distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office sittings: in the churchyard is a quaint epitaph to ·one Wall Letter Box, Uploders, cleared daily at 7_40 a.m. Cox, a blacksmith, who died in 1823. The register & .20 p.m. sundays excepted dates from the year r636. The hving js a vicarage, 5 net yearly value £_220, with residence and 1 ~ acres of Elementary School (mixed), built in r86g, by the late glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor and the repre- Is a bel Lady N epean, for 137 children ; Henry George sentatives of the late Sir M. H. Nepean hart. alternately, Fooks, master and held since 1914 by the Rev. Arthur Eertram Hutton County Police, Robert Bollen, constable L.Th. of Durham UniveM~ity. At UPLODERS, r mile Carriers to:- east, is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1827 and restored Bridport-Sidney Brown & Stephen Crabb, wed. & sat in 1888: it will seat wo persons. Sir Robert Mellor's Weymouth-Stephen Crabb, fri LODERS. Fry Samuel. farmer, Yondover Stroud Miss M. Shatcombe house PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hansford Herbert, farmer & land- Willoughby Miss, Temperance cot <Jwner, Boarsbarrow farm Hutton Rev. Arthur Bertnm L. Th_ Marsh Hugh, market gardener COMMERCIAL. (vicar), Vicarage Norman Samuel, butcher Bartlett Frederick John, Crown inn COMMERCIAL. Norman Thomas, farmer Brown Sidney, carrier Bishop Mary (Mrs.),farmer,Yondover Reader James, miller (water) Brown William, builder & wheelwrght Blackler Edwd. Hy.Farmers'ArmsP.B Richards- Jn. Alex. Loders Arms inn Burbage Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopl;:eepr Brown Alfred Edwin, carpenter Symes William, wheelwright, carpen- Crabb Alfred, farmer, Uploders Budden Arthur, stationer & sub-post- ter, joiner & undertaker Crabb Stephen, oearrier & farmer, master Callington Crabb Arthur, farmer, New H{)use Fry Wayg;ood, farmer farm, Yondover UPLODERS. Hansford George, farmer, Gribbs Fook!l Henry George, school master & (Names marked* po11tal address, Ship *Hansford Job, farmer, Innsacre assistant overseer, clerk to Parish ton Gorg-e, Bridport.) Hyde George, shopkeeper Council & rate collector Pope Benjamin, New road Knight Robert, fa1mer, Matravers .