7 WRAXALL. DORSETSHIRE. [KELLY S L 258 owners. There is a tumulus in the parish. The Manor Wall Letter Box, Lower Wraxall, cleared at 9·45 a.m. House, at Upper Wraxall, was erected in 16ro. The & 7.ro p.m. week days; sundays, ro.Io a.m. Letters. soil is loam, clay and peat ; subsoil, gravel and chalk. from Dorchester, via Cattistock, arrive at 7.20 a.m. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, peas and roots. Cattistock, ~~ miles distant, i!i! the nearest money The area is g68 acres ; rateable value, £8gg ; the popu­ order office, & Rampisham the nearest telegraph office lation in rgn was 84. The children attend the schools at Rampisham

Busk William Gould J .P Hawkins Leonard, farm bailiff to W.J Heron Thomas, gamekeeper to W. G. G. Busk esq. J.P Busk esq. J.P

WYXE REGIS is a village and parish, pleasantly about £s,ooo, is avail~ble for local meetings &c. ; the situated in a valley open to the sea from the south­ trustees are the rector and churchwardens. Several west, 1! miles south.west from Weymouth, and partly charities are distributed by the rector and church.. within that municipal boriJUg~ in the Southern divi­ wardens; the principal are Chamberlaine's charity of sion of the county, Weymouth union and county court £25 per annum, which provides a Church of England district, petty sessional division of Dorchester and education for girls of Wyke Regis, and Orton's charity, liberty of Wyke Regis, hundred of Culliford Tree, of £5 ros. per annum, which is distributed in blankets rural deanery of Dorchester (Weymouth portion), arch­ and coal to the poor of the parish. The Earl of Tichester, deaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. This who is lord of the manor, and Capt. Sidney Owen­ place commands some fine views ; to the south and Swaffield are the principal landowners. Soil, loam; sub­ ~ast are the Isle of Portland and the Portland Roads, soil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and pas­ 'With St. Alban's Head in the distance ; to the west is ture. The area is 1,554 acres; rateable value, £r2,6oo; "that part of the sea called the West Bay, and to the the population in 19II was 2,330 in the civil and 3,062 -north are a variety of villages and lofty hills ; from its in the ecclesiastical parish. very pleasant situation it has become the residence of By Local Government Board Order No. P. r,o8o, which -many families. The church of All Saints is a building was confirmed by Local Government Board Provisional ~t stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, Orders Confirmation (No. 13) Act, rBgs, and came into ai3les, south porch, and an embattled western tower, operation gth November, r8g5, that part of Wyke Regia with pinnacles, containing a clock and 8 bells, hung in c1vil parish known as Westham, was added to Wey­ s:Bgr at a cost of £700: the tower, which is 261 feet mouth and Melcombe Regis municipal borough and to .above sea level, serves as a landmark to vessels passing Weymouth civil parish. up and down the English Channel ; in the chancel are two stained windows, presented by B. H. Swaffield esq. Sexton and Acting Parish Clerk, Harry Whittle. 1lnd Mrs. Munro; another window was added in r885 by Capt. Pretor, in memory of his father; and in r8gr Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-James George Watts, sub­ -others were presented by Mrs. Edward Otway, in postmaster. Letters arrive from Weymouth at 7 memory of her husband, and by Lady Otway, in memory & rr.3o a.m. & 3.30 & 7.15 p.m.; sundays, 7 a.m.; of her son; the church contains some monuments and dispatched at 8.35 a.m. & 1.20 & 4·35 & 8 p.m.; sundays, 7.40 p.m tablets, and in the graveyard are several stones bearing • inscriptions to persons shipwrecked on this coast : the Broadmeadow Town Sub-Post & M. 0. Office.-...llfirs. church affords 500 sittings The register dates from the Mary Ellen Selby, sub-postmistress. Box cleared 7 year 1676. The living is a rectory, net yearly value & u.3o a.m. & 3.30 & 7-IS p.m.; sundays, 8 a.m.; £262, including 26 acres of glebe, with residence, in the dispatched at 8.30 a.m. & r.rs, 4.25 & 7·55 p.m.; gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1899 by the sundays, 7.25 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Rev. Sidney Edmund Davies M.A. of Worcester College, Wyke Regis, half a mile distant Oxford, hon. canon and prebendary of Salisbury, and Wall Letter Box, at Ferry Bridge, cleared at 8.20 a.m, surrogate. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built & r.ro, 4.20 & 7.25 p.m.; 7-IS p.tn sunday in Igor, and a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1903. The -cemetery, laid out at a cost of £470, was dedicat.ed in Elementary School, rebuilt in 1897 by Messrs. White­ 1888 ; the ground was given by the Rev. Robert Francis head & Co. & enlarged in 1904, for soo children; ili Lynes M.A. of Wyke Lodge, and the cemetery is con­ is partly supported by an endowment given by the -trolled by a burial committee of eight members. The late Mrs. Chamberlaine ; Albert Bowns Russ, master; All Saints' Memorial Hall, built in rgoB at a cost of Mrs. Nellie Randell, infants' mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Collins William James, shopkeeper Rose George, builder, carpenter, Allison Edward, Melita Dowell Waiter, insurance agent painter, slater & undertaker Barrow Lient.-Commdr. Benjamin Edwards James, shopkeeper Ruffell Charles, beer retailer Wingate R.N. Ivy cottage Edwards Peter Harris, farmer Sapsworth George, dairyman Bird John Whittle, Rosehill cottage Farthing Arthur .Jn. farmer, Lane ho Scource Alfred, marine store dealer Bowering Frank, Holly lodge Gill Sidney G. butcher Selby Frank, builder, contractor, Cable Mrs. Vancourtland Groves Frederick W. beer retailer carpenter, painter,plumber & slater Chimmo Miss, Westdown Hanney Edith (Mr11.), shopkeeper Selby Mary Ellen (Mrs.), tobacconist Coles Lieut.-Commdr. Gordon A., Hanney Samuel William, dairyman & stationer, Post office, Bro:td- R.N. Ormesby cottage Hardway James, shopkeeper meadow Cooke Mrs. 2 Camden place Harford Henry Ebenezer, grocer Stark Jas. F. patent medicine vendor .Davies Rev. Canon Sidney Edmund Harvey Joshua Harold M.R.C.S.Eng., Stark James Robert, farmer, Wyke M.A. (rector & surrogate),TheRctry L.R.C.P.Lond. physician & surgeon, farm -puller Lieut. Wilfred, Wyke lodge medical officer & public vaccinator Talbot C. B. & G. (Misses), apart- -Green Harold Davies, The Shack Wyke Regis district, Weymouth ments, Albion cottage Haigh Engineer-Commdr. F.E. Percy union, The Willows Vickery Henry B., A.C.P., F.S.Sc. R.N. Wyke castle Hatcher Thomas Eli, beer retailer private school, Homeleigh "Harvey Joshua Harold, The Willows Hayne Percy, butcher Wakely Harry, farmer, Goldcroft Hasluck Rev. Martin Allen B . .A.. Hewitt George, chief officer in charge farm (letters via Westham, Wey- (curate) 2 Camden place of Coast Guard station mouth) Otway Mr's. Wyke cottage Hussey Charles, dairy Ward Mary (Mrs.), draper & grocer Owen-Swaffield Capt. ,Sidney Edward Jones John Rashley, draper Warren Rosabella (Mrs.), shopkeeper Owen Markham house Keates Waiter, boot repairer Watts Jas. Geo. grocer, & post office Powell Ernest B. Beech Cliff house Lawrenee Annie & Kathleen (Misses), Watts Waiter John, beer retailer Speneer Mrs. Wyke house butchers Wey~outh & District Co-operative Tarte Mrs. Westhill house Lovel~ Sydney, grocer Soc1etr Ltd. (A. H. Oakley, see.), Tucker Alfred Harris V.D. J p Bea- Morr1s Waiter, shopkeeper Portland road con hill ' · · Mowlam Eliza Maria. (Mrs.), beer ret Weymouth Port Sanitary Authority Whittle George Hamilton house Mowlam James, blacksmith Hospital (Thomas Howard M.B. Wood Capt. Jo'hn c. I., R.E. West- Nor~an Henry, boot & shoe rep~irer visiti~g surgeon; A.lbert Marston, hill cottage NorrlS Thomas, greengrocer supermtendent) Northover James Henry, grocer Whitehead's Social Institute (Edwin COMMERCIAL. Ogden Albert E. Royal Victoria hotel, Pyle, sec) All Saints' Memorial Hall Ferry bridge Whittle & Bollditch, butchers Bartlett Henry J. dairyman Pangbourne Albt. Edwd. general dlr Winzar Thoma~. Wyke hotel Bazell George, dairyman Payne Hy. Albert inn, & fly proprtr Working Men's Institute (Arthur Brown William George, baker Randell Frederick Geo. hair dresser England, sec) Clarke George Edwin, carpenter Rashleigh Catherine (Mrs.), shopkpr