7 74 COLEHILL. DORSETSHIRE. (KELL\' 8 Post & M. 0. Office. Frank Barrett, sub-postmaster. master. Letters arrive at 6 & 10.20 a.m.; sunday', Letters arrive from Wimborne at 6.25 & 11.55 a.m.; 7.15 a.m.; dispatched at 12.5 & 8 p.m dispatched at 8.30 &; 11.55 a.m. & 7.30 p.m.; sunday, Wall Letter Boxes. Belle Vue, cleared at 11 a.m. & 8.45 a.m. Wimborne, 2 m1les distant, is the nearest 7·45 p.m.; sunday, 8 a.m. &; Walsford, cleared at telegraph office 12.30 &; 8.10 p.m.; sunday, 6.40 p.m The children of this parish attend the schools at Wim- .Post Office, Furze Hill.-Edwin Hiscock, sub-post- ltorne and Middle Hill, Hampreston PRIVA'l'E RESIDENTS. Quertier Josiah, Leigh Habgood Wm.Jsph.builder,Church rd Bannister George, .St. Audrey's Senior Herbert, Leigh Hatchard John Frederick, yeoman Barraud Miss, l'ine view Solly George Edward J.P. Bells ho Hayter .Albert, farmer, Higher Honey- Dendy Miss, The Cottage Stanley-Clarke Culvert Hay,Highwood brook farm Elling-Butcher Mrs. Mayfield Truell Mrs. Onslow Hiscock Edwin, cycle maker, Post Ethelston Edmund, Rowney lodge Williams Capt. Eustace Scott, Dean's office, Furze Hill Fletcher Waiter John, Wyrley grove Horsey J. B. & Co. market gardeners, Friend Charles Robert . Walsford Gilmore J oseph .Alien, Langholm, COMMERCIAL. Major Thomas, builder Walsford Barrett Frank, grocer, Post office Munckton Wm. farmer, Leigh farm Glyn Lt.-Gen. Sir John Plumptre Bourgaize E. & Co. fruit growers, Nicklen Agnes (Mrs.), frmr. Dogdean Carr K.C.B., J.P. Northleigh Leigh vineries Oborne Emily (Mrs.), apartments, 1 Glyn Capt.Carr Stuart J.P.Woodleaze Bournemouth Gas &; Water Co.'s Pretoria Hatchard John Frederick, Highlands Pumping Station (Ralph Wilson, Riggs Levi, builder & contractor, Kemble Mrs. Wingreen in charge) Furze hill Kindersley Rev. Cyril Edwin M.A. Burling Henry, shopkpr. 2 Belle vue Smith Andrew, higgler, Brookside (perpetual curate) Chissell Oakley, farmer, Brookside Smith John, builder &; contractor King Harry Frederick, The Beeches, Clarke Alfred Ernest, tailor Smith Thomas ( exors. of), farmers, Walsford Coakes John, farmer Wilksworth farm Lees Mrs. Beaucroft Cobb David John, boot dealer Steele Henry Charles, Horn!f inn Lock Harold, Kyrchill Cobb Fred, baker Taylor Arthur John, farmer, Pilford Lonsdale Mrs. The Further house Cobb John William, brick maker farm, Walsford Macfarlane William Nicolaas, lnver- Coombes Charles, brick maker Tucker J. &; Son, market gardeners, gelder, Walsford Farrant Hy. Chas. baker, Leigh corn Leigh Common Morris Mrs. Culverhayes Gillett Robert Geo. Eli, beer retailer \Vareham .TameR .Tohn, wheelwright Munckton Victor C • .A. The Cubas Guy Joseph Edward, blacksmith Wilkins Henry, blacksmith Neate Fras. Wm.Furzebank, Furzehill Guy J oseph HardY'f farmer ' COMPTON ABBAS is a parish, seated at the foot of borne, is lord of the manor and· chief landowner. The .Melbury Hills, 5! miles south from Semley station on the soil is sand and light loam, with green sandstone in Salisbury and Yeovil branch of the London and South parts ; subsoil, chalk and stone. The chief crops are Western railway, 3 miles south from Shaftesbury, and 9 wheat, barley, oats and beans. The area is 1,404 acres; north from Blandford, in the Northern division of the rateable value, £1,563; the population in 1901 was 245. county, hundred of Sixpenny Handley, petty sessional division of Wes~ Shaftesbury, union and county court BEREKN.AP is a hamlet between Compton Abbas and district of Shaftesbury, rural deanery of Shaftesbury Twyford, consisting of a few houses. (Sturminster Newton portion), archdeaconry of Dorset TWYFORD is a hamlet, 1! miles west. and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. Mary, built Sexton and Parish Clerk, ·william Hardiman. and opened in 1867, is of stone, and consists of apsidal chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a tower, with Post Office.-Mrs. Maria Border, sub-postmistress. Letters spire, containing 5 bells : the nave is divided from the through Shaftesbury• arrive 7 · IO a.m. & 4 p.m. on aisle by two fine arches springing from cylindrical piers, week days & 7-IO a.m. on sundays; dispatched at 5 and is seated with open benches; in the chancel is a brass & 7· 2 5 p.m. on week days & 10.45 a.m. on sundays. tablet to the Rev. William s. Hadley M.A. who, as curate Fontmell Magna, 1 mile distant, is tilie nearest money and rector, ministered to the parishioners of Compton order & telegraph oilice Abbas for thirty-five y~>ars; there are 250 sittings. The Wall I,etter Box, Twyford, c:eared at 7·13 a.m. & 5 p.m. register dates from the year 1650. The living is a week days only rectory, net income [185, with residence, in the gift of Elementary School (under the control Q{ the County Sir Richard George Glyn hart. and held since 1910 by Council) & school house, built in 1849 &; a classroom the Rev. 'rhomas George Brierley Kay L. Th. of Selwyn added in 1870, for 8o children; average attendance, College, Dunedin. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, erected 46; supported by Sir R. G. Glyn bart.; Miss Jemima in 1864. Sir R. G. Glyn bart. of Gaunt's House, Wim- Battrick, mistress COMPTON .ABBAS. Ryall Alfred, shopkeeper sub-district, Shaftesbury union, Kay Rev. Thomas George Brierley Witt Ernest, farmer, Willis farm Twyford farm L.Th. (rector), The Rectory TWYFORD. Bridle Stephen, farmer, Prystock frm COMMERCIAL. Day William, blacksmith Alford Henry Thomas, carpenter (Letters are delivered from Shaftes- Foot Alfred (Mrs. ),farmer,Baker's fm Burridge Lot, blacksmith bury direct.) Rideout Emily (Mrs.), shopkeeper Butt Meshach Geo. farmer, Tucker'~ Baker James, farmer, Crocker's farm Tapper John, farmer, & registrar of farm ; &; at Gore farm, Ashmore Barnes Chas. Hy. farmer, Gumms frm births &; 'tleaths, Fontmell snb-dis- Goldie George, farmer, Manor fat·m Barnes Jem, farmer, & deputy regis- trict, Shaftesbury union, Burden's Goldie William, farmer, Gourd's fam1 trar of births &; deaths, Fontmell farm

COMPTON ABBAS WEST (or West Compton) is since 1910 by the Rev. William Hewitson B.A. Emmanuel a parish, 3 ·miles south from Maiden Newton station on College, Cambridge. Close to the parish is the site of the Weymouth section of the Great Western railway, and a British village. John Donnet Paul esq. of Rodwell, 9 west-north-west from Dorchester, in the Western divi- Weymouth, Lord Wynford and Miss Phelps, of Castle sion of the county, Cerne hundred, Dorchester pettly ses- Ca;ry, are the landowners. The soil is sand; subsoil~ sional division, union and county court district, rural gravel and chalk. The chief crops are corn and 11ome deanery of Bridport (Abbotsbury portion), archdeaconry land in pasture. The area is 846 acres; rateable value, of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury; Compton Abbas de- £6o3; the population in 1901 was so. rivas its adjuncb from having once formed part of the possessions of Milton Abbey. The church of St. Michael Letten from Dorchester, through Maiden Newton, which is a small modern building of stone in the Early English is the nearest money order &;. telegraph office, ll style, and consists of chancel, nave, north porch and one miles dist-ant, arrive at 8 a.m bell, hung in the porch: the chancel was rebuilt in 1858, Wall Letter Box, cleared 5.50 p.m. summer; 4.50 p.m. and the rest of the church in 1867, and opened Oct. 3• winter I8{)r; there are 102 sittings. The register dates from Wall Letter Box, at Rectory, clea.red in summer at 6: the year 1538. The living is a rectory, consolidated with p.m. &; in winter at 5 p.m · the chapelry of Wynford Eagle, joint net yearly value 1 £217, with residence and 2 acres of glebe, in the gift The children of this parish attend the school at Wynford of L«>rd Wynford, of Warmwell, Dorchester, and held Eagle Hewitson Rev. William B.A. (rector), COMMERCIAL. House Frederick Osmond, farm~ Rectory Fry Frederick, dairyman Eggardon & Manor farms Slade William, dairyman