Dtrtctorn. ======EVERSHOT AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. EvERSHOT is a small village and parish, in the Hosldns is the present incumbent. There is an en• hundred of Tollerford, situated midway between Bea- dowed free grammar school here for the education of minster and Cerne Abbas; distant from London 129 thirty boys of the parish, and for all boys bearing the miles by way of Sherborne. The village is a neat and name of the founder-which was Strickland. The prin cleau little place, without posst:ssing any thing worthy cipal seat in the nei~hbourhood is' Alelbury house,' the of especial notice. The river Fro me rises in the parish, seat of the Earl of Ilchester. Formerly a market was and a tributm·y stream to the Iver has its source on the held hea·e on SatUI·d;.y, but it has been discontinued north side of the hill there. The church, an ancient for some years; a fair is still maintained on the 12th of structure, was originally a chapel of ease to Frome St. l\Iay, for cattle, pigs, and cloth. Population of the Quintin, but the living is now held jointly with that parish, by the returns made in 1831, 569, and by the late yarish, and is in the gift of the Crown: the Rev. Henry census (1841} 566.
POST O:E':E'IC:£:1 Alexander Welhuau, Post Master.-Letters from all parts arrive (from DoRCHESTER) every morning at half-past nine, and are despatched to that town every aftemoon at a quarter before four.
NOBILITY1 GENTRY AND SCHOOLS. Knell James, boot and shoe maker CLERGY. FREE GRAMMAR ScHooL. Evan Lilly Misses, tobacco manufacturers, Carrow Rev.-. Rampisham Lewis, master Chetnole Champion Thos. esq. Stokewood hse Hackman Mary (day) Mullens Sarah, baker [tistock Collil!s Rev. Edward, Evershot Lewis Evan (day) Nobs John, veterinary surgeon, Cat. Cooper Rev. Blakley, Lewcombe Pulman Charlotte (day) Nobs John, shopkeeper, Cattistock Dun eau Rev. -, West Chilborough PUBLIC HOUSES. Palmer Hannah, linen draper, Mel.. Ilchester the Right Hon. the Earl bury Osmond of, Melbury house Acorn ( & excise office) Geo. Russell Foa:, John Groves Peny Edwin, grocer and draper Jenkins Miss-, Chetnole Pouncy J oauna, saddler J enniugs Mr. William, Evershot SHOPKEEPERS & TRADERS. Pulman Robert, blacksmith Jesty Miss Anna, Evershot [mond Barrett William, boot & shoe maker Rendall Henry, plumber aud glazier l\latthews Rev. John, l\Ielhury Os Cave John & William, maltsters, Roberts James, blacksmith Perkins Mrs.-, Chetnole M elbury Osmond Shittler John, tailor Petty Mrs. Ann, Evershot Chubb .lames, cooper & beer retailer ShOl't l\laa·y, shopkeeper PROFESSIONAL PERSONS. Chubb .John, cooper aud shopkeeper Trenchard William, butcher Cox George, auctioneer, Rampisham Conway Henry, carpenter W ellman A lex. boot and shoe maker J enniugs Jose ph Crew, attorney, and Cox James, tailor Well man 1\1 ary, dmggist agent to the West of England In Cox Thomas, tailor CARRIERS. surance Office Cox William, tailor To SHERBORNE, John Cox, from his Martin John, land surveyor Drake John, carpenter house, daily. Martyr William, surgeon, and regis Edwards John, boot & shoe maker To YEOVIL,John Cox and Thos. Howe, trar of births and deaths Frampton Thomas, wood turnel· from their own hoases, every .l:'riday.
GILLINGHAl\I, WITH THE VILLAGES OF BOURTON, PENSCELLWOOD AND NEIGHBOURHOODS. GrLLINGHAM is a small marlret town, in an exten- The parish (exclusive of the chapelry of Bourton) con .. sive pari8b and liberty of its name, in the west division tained, ilJ 1831,2,520 inhabitants, and at the late census of Shaston; 105 miles from Loudou, and about 4~ N. w. (that of 1841) 2,760. from Shaftesbury; seated on the rirer Stour. This parish BouRTON is a chapelry under Gillingham; the village, occupies the northern extremity of the county, and which is il·regulaa· and scattered, contains a uew church includes an area of more than sixty thousand acres, (or rather chapel of ease), erected by subscriptions, aud chiefly pasture land. It comprises the ancient forest of dedicated to St. George; the living is a perpetual curacy, Selwood, which was disforested by Charles I, on con- in the gift of a committee of twelve persons. The ma dition that the lessee should mamtain four hundred nufactures of Bonrton are of the same nature as those deer for the king'5 use. Near the village was anciently a of Gillingham. At the northern extremity of this ham palace, built by the Saxon or Norman kings; and Henry let, on the bank of the Stour, stands a boundary stone, I appears to have, at one period, resided here-for his maa·king the \'erge of the counties of Dorset, Somerset charter to the cathedral of Lincoln, giving to it the ma- and Wilts. Population, at the last census, 976. nor of Biggleswade, is dated from Gillingham, in 11:32. Abont a mile and a half from Gillingham, in the The manufacture of ticks and dowlasses, with bleaching hundred of Norton-Fenis, county of Somerset, is the works, and some silk-spinning, are the chi!U trades of village ofPENSCELLWOOD, celebrated as being the place this place. The parish church of the Virgin :\1ary is an where the great Alfred penetrated into the Danish camp, ancient structure; the benefice is in the patronage of disguised as a minstrel. In accordance with this Ancient the bishop of Salisbury. The market is on Friday; and tradition, a tower, one hundred and twentv feet high, the fairs (for horses, cattle and sheep,) on Trinitv M on- has been erected on the site of the encampnient by one day and September 12th. John Grice and otliers, in of the ancestors of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. The 1526, founded and endowed a free 8Chool, which, during parish church of St. 1\lirhael is a !!mall bui1diug; the the parliamentary war was in great repute; and it was benefice is a discharged rectory, in the presentation of in this establi~hment that the celebrated Hyde, after- the Earl of llchest£'r. The parish of Penscellwood con wards Earl of Clarendon, received part of his education. tained. by the census of 1841, 375 inhabitants.
POST OPFICE1 GILLINGHAM, James Read, Post 1lfaster.-Letters from all parts arrive every morning at eight, and are despatched e\·ery evening at half-past five. POSr, BouRTON', Receiving-Ho~e at the Red Lion.-Lettea·s from all parts arl'ive every morning at eight, and are despatched every evening at six. GENTRY & CLERGY. Mathews Harry, esq. Wyke ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS. Bell Mr. William Kead (attorney) Miles Mr. Hy. (surgeon) Gillingham Cave Daniel, Gillin~ham Knap house Mm·tirner James, esq. Wyke house FREE ScHooL, Gillingham-James Crockett Rev. John, Penscellwood Newell Rev. F. Bourton Read, master Dean Rev. Henry, Gillingham Singer George, esq. Milton lodge Millard Thomas, Bourton Downes Logan, esq. Milton lodge Whieldon George, esq. Milton lodge NATIONAL SCHOOL, Gillingham- Erie Rev. Waiter, Gillingham WordsworthRev.Cullen,Gillingham 1\lary Brown, mistress 15