138 MOS1'E.R1'0l'f • DORSETSHIRE. (t:ELLY's .l.P. who is lord of the manor, Viscount Portman and & 6.10 p.m.; dispatched at 8.45 a.m. & 6.35 p.m.; trustees- of the late Joseph Symes Hull esq. The soil is no delivery or dis·patch on sundays. The nearest heavy clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, morrey order office is at South Perrott & nearest barley, oats, peas, hay and turnips. The area is 975 telegraph office at Misterton (Somerset), 2 miles acres; rateable value, [r,466; population in 19rr, 197. distant Parish Clerk, Mrs. Mary .Ann Mitchem. Elementary School (mixed), built in 1876, & enlarged in Post Office, Mrs. Mary .Ann Mitchem, sub-postmistress. I894, for 90 children; Thomas Friend Eddy, master Letters from Misterton, Somerset, arrive at 6.50 a.m. COMMERCIAL. Drake Thomas, farmer, Bluntsmoor Rousell Charles, blacksmith Baker Ellen (Miss), shopkeeper Ford George, farmer Saunders Fredk. farmer,Chapel cour\ Bowditch George, New inn Hallett John, boot maker Strode Waiter, baker Case Esau, wheelwright Lawrence & Mitchell,frmrs.Manor fm Studley Frederick Herbert, farmer, Chaffey & Sons, millers (water) & Lovelace .Albert, marine store dealer Woodcock farm farmers Mitchell Stanley H. frmr. Broad Oak Tolly Thos. Tucker, farmer, West fm

Oox Henrv,• frmr. & assistant overseer Mitchem Jas. carpenter & wheelwrght Warren Charles,Crown & Anchor P.H Ourtis Frederick, thatcher Podger Jn. farmer, Bakers Mill farm Wilmott William Edward, carpenter Doble Frances C. & Mary Anna (letters through South Perrott, (Misses), poultry farmen;, New ho Misterton) MOTCOMBE is a large scattered parish, 2 to 3 miles Post, M. 0. & T. Office. Mrs. Elizabeth Stainer, sub­ south-west from Semley station on the London and postmistress. Letters arrive through Shaftesbury at. South We:.tern railway, and 2 north from Shaftesbury, 7 & 10.45 a:m. & 3.50 p.m. on week days & 7 a.m. on in the Northern division of the countv, hundred of sundays; dispatched at n.z5 a.m. & 5.25 & 7.50 p.m. Sixpenny Handley, Shaftesbury petty sessional division, on week days; & Io.so a.m. on sundays union and county court district, rural deanery of Wall Letter Eox, at the Butter Factory, cleared .at II.Io Shaftesbury (Shaftesbury portion), archdeaconry of a.m. & 5·I5 & 7·45 p.m. on week days; sundays at Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. I0-45 a.m Mary, rebuilt in I846, is an edifice of sandstone in the Wall Letter Box, Elm, cleared at II.I5 a.m. & 5.10 p.m-. Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, on week days; & I0.40 a. m. on sundays south porch, and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells, hung in 1887 at a cost of about [3oo, two being ENMORE GREEN is half a mile north-west from presented by Lady Theodora Guest, and the remaining Shaftesbury. The church of St. John the Evangelist, four by the parishioners : in 1907 a new organ, a pulpit erected in 1843, is a small cruciform building of stone of Qaen stone, and new oak choir stalls were provided, in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, tran­ at a cost of £25o: the church affords 316 sittings. septs, and an embattled western tower containing one The register dates from the year 1676. The living is a beJl : the church is seated with open benches for 150 perpetual curacy, with Enmore Green annexed, net in­ persons : the services are conducted by the vicar of come £275, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Motcombe. Here is also a Primitive Methodist chapel · Salisbury, and held since 1912 by the Rev. Charles with 350 sittings, and a Life Boat mission hall, erected { Donne M.A. of Gonville and Oaius College, Cambridge. in r88g, with roo sittings. Here is a. Wesleyan chapel, built in 1870, with 380 Post Office, Enmore Green.-Frederick William Redout. sittings, and a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in sub-postmaster (closes I p.m. wednesdays). Letters 1828, seating 200 persons. The whole of the parish is through Shaftesbury. Box cleared at 9.25 & n.35 well supplied with water, the source of which is a a.m. & 6 & 7.50 p.m. on week days; & 4.30 p.m. on spring rising on the range of hills close to Cowherd's sundays. Shaftesbury is the nearest money order & Shute and conveyed to various parts of the parish telegraph office through pipes laid down at the expense of the late Elizabeth Marchioness of Westminster. The charities for SHERBORNE CAUSEWAY is 2 miles west from distribution amount to about £7o yearly. Here are Shaftesbury, situated on the road from Shaftesbury to numerous apple orchards; cheese making, market Sherborne. gardening, dairy farming and brick making are all Wall Letter Box, Sherborne Causeway, cleared at 5 carried on in this parish ; there is a milk, cream and p.m. on week days; sundays at 7 a.m butter factory conducted by Messrs. C. and G. Prideaux Schools. Limited, government contractors, who also deal exten­ sively .in cheese, bacon, eggs, game, poultry and all Under the Control of the County Council. kinds of dairy produce, and employ a large number of Attached to the church at Motcombe are two schools hands. Motcombe House, the seat of Lord Stalbridge (on the National principle) upon a large scale, called J .P. is a mansion of red brick, with Ham Hill stone Lord Stalbridge's schools, one for infants, erected by dressings, in the Tudor style, erected in 1894 under the the late Marquess of Westminster, & one for boys & direction of Messrs. George and Peto, architects: it is girls, built by the late Elizabeth, Marchioness of situated in charming park-like grounds of Ioo acres, Westminster planted with rhododendrons and well wooded. Lord Elementary (mixed), with residence for master, built in Stalbridge is lord of the manor and the principal land­ 1874, at a cost of about [520, for 6o children; Wm. owner. The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay. The land is Smith, master principally in pasture." The area is 5,058 acres of land Elementary (infants), built in 1839, at a cost of about and 5 of water; rateable value, £u,87I; the population £7oo, for So children; Miss Ethel Hodder, mistress • ID I9II was I,I92. Elementary, Enmore Green (mixed), built in 1870 & Parish Clerk, Meshach Moore. enlarged in 1894, for 150 children; Owen Jones,mastr MOTCOMBE. Dorset Public Hou!'le Trust Co. Ltd. Pitman Eli Chas. far111er, Rain's frm Stalbridge Lord J.P. Motcombe house (Thomas Henry Scadden, manager), Prideaux c. & G. Ltd. Govern• Butler Mrl;!. New lane Royal Oak P.H ment contractors; wholesale milk Donne Rev. Charles M . .A... (vicar), Forward William Maidment, farmer, & provision merchants, bacon Vicarage 'Vithy's farm curers, butter & cheese factors, egg His cock Arthur, Manor farm Gillingham Potten•, J3rick & Tile Co. merchants, pork butchers, sausage Hollam by Miss Limited (George Hart-is, manager); manufacturers, poulterers & game head office, Gillingham. See ad- dealers, Wholesale Dairv Produce Prideaux Chas. The Grange. T N 4a • • Williams Rupert Owain Glendwyr, vertisement page 24 Supply depot. T N 4b Pensbury house Green Charles, farmer, North Hayes Prideaux Charles & George Limited, Harris Sidney, farmer, Guest farm farmers, Royal Oak COMMERCIAL. Hiscock Arthur, farmer, Manor farm Prideaux•s Pure Caseine & Life Adams Cyril, farmer, Church farm Hiscock Garnet, farmer,Short's green Food Compy. Lim. sole manufac~ Bastable James Robert S. farmer, Hiscock Thomas Henry, fal1Dler & turers of "Casumen,u "Lac• Fernbrook assistant overseer & clerk to the vitum" & " Lacumen" milk Blake Harry. baker & farmer Parish Council. Thanes farm powder; contractors to H. M. Bourne William, gardener to Lord Hooper Charles Edgar, farmer · government, Wholesale Supply Stalbridge Hunt Henry, farmer, Cowherd shute depot. T N 4c Bracher Cornelius, basket & chair ma Lagg Charles, laundrv Prideaux Geo. Hy. frmr. Beetles grn Bristol Rosa Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Ladder George, farmer, Woodwater Ricketts Chas.farmer,Culverhouse frm North End farm Mells Wm. GeQ. farmer, Beetle's Grn Shute Wm. Geo. grocer k draper Coombs Fredk. farmer, Frog lane Moore Meshach, blacksmith & parish Spinney Frederick, blacksmith Coward .!rthur, shopkeeper clerk Stainer Henry, builder Coward Charles, slloe maker Palmer Jn, Feltham, frmr. Wolfridge