(DORSET.] 2 POST OFFICl with some Newfoundland trade. The exports are Pur­ Salisbury and archbishopric of Canterbury. lt fe1Tms beck and Portland stone, clay for the potteries, sheep, five deaneries, and has 163 rectories, 62 vicarages, and ,33 wool, butter, cheese, ale, cider and mackerel. curacies; this gives 258 livings, but by another account, The people on the shore are kept by the fisheries, reckoning the annexed benefices as single liy;Jngs Bridport 62, Dorchester 53, Pimperne 38, are Poole, Wareham, Swanage, Weymouth, Bridport, and Shaftesbury 65, Wbitchurch Canonicorum 68. It had Lyme; but Swanage and Lyme have much f~llen off. A formerly many rich and old abbeys of Benedictines ,Jind breakwater is being made in Portland Ray, so as to form Cistercians; among these were Shafts bury, Sherborne, a great harbour of refuge over against Cherburg. This is Cerne, Abbotsbury, Bindon, Cranbourn, Horton, and worked by a large convict establishment. Mitton; likewise priories at Dorchester, Bridport, Ware­ The only navigable stream is the Stonr. The railway is ham, Loders, Frampton, and Spettisbury. At Wimborne tbe Southampton and Dorsetshire, belonging to the South was 11. collegiate chnrch. Sherborne was the see of a Western Company. A line called t.hc Wilts and Dorset bishop from 705 to 1075. There are still some Roman belongs to the Great 'Vestern Company; but through the Catholic nunneries and chapels, well endowed by the comp~tition of these two great companies for the traffic, wealthy members of that communion. most plans for the accommodation of the district by rail­ Dorsetshire seems to have been taken from the Britons way have been defeated. The Dorchcstcr line enters from by the Belgian Durotriges, likewise called :Morini, which Ringwood, in Hampshire, and passes Wiruborne (with a words are said to mean " dwellers by the sea." Of branch to Poole), Wareham, Wool, and :M:orcton to Dor­ the Britons and Belgians t~re seem to be many remains, chester. -as Agglestone, near Studlar.d, in the Isle of Pur beck; Weymouth is the greatest town, with about 10,000 Portisham Cromlech, called Hellstone, a circle of stones people; the others are -Dorchester, with 6,000; Poole, near Winterborne St. :Martin; another near Poxwell, and with 6,000; Bridport, with 7 ,000; Lyme,Warcham, Bland­ another at Little Breedy : perhaps Badbury Rings and ford, with 4,000 ; Shaftesbury, Sherborne, Sturminster, Maumbury belong to this period. Corfe Castle, Abbetsbury, Cerne Abbas, Wimborne Min­ Under the Romans it was a part of Britannia Prima, s~er, Beaminster, Stalbridge,Gilliugham, Swanage, Cran­ and they had many settlementB, as Durnovaria (Dor­ borne, Bere Regis, and Abbotsbury. Weymouth and chester), l\lorinio (Wareham), Vindo Gladia (Wimborne), Dorchester are well-built towns; Shaftesbury, Sherborne Canca Arista (Charmouth), Londinis (Lyme Regis), Bol­ and Wimborne have fine collegiate churchu. The shire clanio (Poole), and Clavinio (Weymouth). Other settle­ town is Dorchester. Three members are returned for ments were-Alcester, Stoborough, Charborough, Chel­ Dorsetshire, lw() for Dorchester, two for Weymouth, two borougb, Gainsborough, Bedcister, Horchester, Hog­ for Poole, one E'ach for Lyme Regis, Shaftesbury, Ware­ chester. A great road, named by the Euglish the lkening ham, and Bridport, which are all boroughs. The polling or Ikenield way (viu Iceniana), comes in by Woodyates, towns for the shire are Dorchester, Wimborne, 'Wareham, passes through Durnovaria1 and goes to the west. At Blandford, Beaminster, Sherborne, Shaftesbury, and Che­ Durnovaria, the most famous remain is the amphitheatre. silton, in Portland. It is in the western circuit, and The part of Ikening way, near Dorchester, called Acklini under the Exeter bankruptcy jurisdiction. The town of Dike, is in fair preservation. Poole is a shire of itself. Quarter sessions are held On the downs and cliffs are many camps and barrows, ot Dorchester, Blandford, Sberborne, Shaftesbury and British, Belgian, Roman, or English; among these are Bridport. Dorsetshire forms nine divisions-Bland­ Badbury and Maumbury, thme on the Stourbetween Stur­ ford (North and South), Bridport, Cerne, Dorchester, minstcr and Bradford, Weatherbury, Eggardon, Loose• Sbaftesbury (East and West), Sherborne, and Sturminster. barrow, Rowbarrow, Shaftesbury, 1Melbury, Hazelbury, The Poor-law Unions are 12-Beaminster, Blandfurd, Spettisbury, Chalbury, Abbotsbury, Netherbury, Sy­ Bridport, Cerne, Dorcbester, Poole, Shaftesbury, Sher­ mondsbury, Hamilton Hill, Worbarrow, Woolb!lfrow, borne, Sturminster, Wareham and Purbeck, Weymouth, Creechbarrow, Flowersbarrow, Wardstonebarrow, Black. Wimborne. barrow, 'Voodbury, Boltonbarrow, Banbury, Westbury, There are 33 Hundreds and 21 Liberties, besides the Figbu ry, Lush barrow, Conq uerbarrow, Lawrence barrow, ·county of Poole. The Huudreds are-Beaminster, in the Churchbarrows, Seabarrow, Poundbury, Knapbarrow, west; Beaminster Forum and Redhorne, Bere Regis, in Bull barrow, Dudsbury, Broadfordbarrow, Barrow Hill, the south midland; Bradbury, in the east; Brownshall, Henbury, Strawbarrow, Kingbarrow, Ballbarrow, Great­

Buckland Newton, in the west midland; Cerne Tot'combe barrow1 Egerton barrow, Boars barrow, Long barrow, Stable­ and Modbury, in the west midland; Cogdean, in the barrow, Powbarrow, Bridwellbarrow, Mawerbury, Buz­ south-east; Coombs-Ditch, in the east midland; Cran­ bury, Eastbury and Westbury near Tarrant, Gunville, borne, in the north-east; Culliford Tre~, in the midland; Tborncombe, Bealon, Mowlamsbarrow, Tadnollbarrow, Eggerton, in the south-west; Goddesthorn, in the west; Lordsbarrow, End barrow, You barrow, Cernebarrow, Stone­ Ilasilor, in the south-east; Hundreds Barrow, in the barrow, Swyrsebarrow, Cholbury,Hakebury, Swan Knoll, south midland; Knowlton, in the north·east; Loose­ Round Pound, Five Meersbarrow, und Mawerbury. Many barrow, in the ~outh-east; Monkton-up-Wimborn, in the t~sselated pavements, also pottery and Roman coins, have north-eailt; Piddletown, in the midland; Pimperne, in been found. The whole number of Roman campi has the east midland; Redlanc, in the north; Rowbarrow, in been reckoned at 25. the south· east; Rusbmore, in the south; Sherborne, in After the fall of the Romans and Britons, this shire the north; Sixpenny Handley, in the north; Sturminster became part of the kingdom of the }Vest Saxons, and the Newton, in the north; St. George, in the south; Toiler­ see of a bishop; the kings dwelt ht!i'e at Corfe Castle and ford, in the west midland; Uggescomb, in the south; Kingston, and in the minsters many of them are buried. Whitchurch Canonicorum, in the west; Whiteway, in the On the shore 11ear Wareham, Portland, and C\.larmouth, mirlhmd; Winfrith Newburgh, in the south midland; and many fights took place with the Danish rovers. Jn the Yetminster, in the east midland. Parliamentary War the gentry took part with the King, The Liberties are Alton, Pan eras, Bin don, Broad Windsor, and held out iu many sieges and fights, in which their Dewlish, Fordington, Frampton, Gillingham, Halstock, castles were ruined: the townsmen sided with th!.! Parlia­ Loclers and Bothenhampton, Piddle Hinton, Piddle Trent­ ment 1 but the country people held aloof from both King llide, Portland Isle, Ryme Intrinsica, Stower Provost, and Parliament, and formed companica of "clubmen" \O Sutton Po~tz, Sydling St. Nicholas, Puverstock, Waby keep them off. House, Wimborne St. Giles, Wyke Regis, and Owre The objects of interest are many : the fossils of the Isle!' Mayne. of Purbeck and Portland, and of Lyme Regis; the shore The market-town& are Dorcbetotcr, Blandforll, Sher­ scenery, Lulworth cove, the Chesilllank; the curious spit borne, Shaftesbury, Wimborne, Poole, Wareham, Wey­ which joins the Isle of Portland to the main; the am pili­ mouth, Bridport, Beaminster, Lyme, Stalbridge, Cerne theatre at Dorchester; Agglestone, Hellstone, Bad bury Abbas, Corfe Castle, and Sturminster; Gillingham has Rings, Maumbury; the pit!! on Bladen Heath ; the figure declined. Yeovil, Axminster, Crewkerne, Chard, and on the Giant's Hill, near Cerne; the churches at Sbaftee­ Milborne Port, are market-towns in the bordering shires. bury, Sherborne, and Wimborne; and the remains of the Dorsetshire is in. an. archdeaconry, in the bishopric of ab)Jeys and priories.