• 26 BEAMINSTER. DORSEl'SHIRE .. [KELLY•s Kitson & Trotman, solicitors, Fleet street Beaminster district of the union of Beaminster., Tha Kitson Francis Parsons M.R.C.S.Eng.,. L.R.C.P.Lond. Walnuts (.finn, Daniel, Kitson & Pim), surgeon & physician, Pine Thomas Reginald, grocer, Fleet street medical officer of health to the Rural District Council, Poole Fred.erick Charles, hair dresser, White Hart street . medical officer &; public vaccinator to the Netherbury Pope .A.rthur, boot maker, North street district of the union of Beaminster & medical officer Read George John, .tailor, Proutbridge hill to the puor law institution, Oddfellows & Foresters, & Reader William Edward, corn merchant, Fore place · certifying surgeon under the Factory Acts, The Lodge Reynolds .A.. Limited, outfitters, tailors, dress makers, Kitson Henry Lane, solicitor (firm, Kitson &; Trotman), milliners, hosiers • glovers, drapers & boot & shoe Fleet street mercers, London house; & at Bridport Kitson John Lane (firm, Kitson & Trotman), solicitor & Roberts George, baker &; grocer, St. Mary street commissioner to administer oaths & steward of the Rogers Luke, painter & paperhanger, North street manors, Fleet street Russell Sarah (Mrs.), beer retailer, East street Lawrence Samuel, farmer, Cherry cottage Ryall Benjamin Baverstock, farmer, Langdon farm Lei,gh & Son, solicitors, Church street Saint William, superintendent of police Leigh Robert, sen. (firm, Leigh & Son), solicitor, com­ Savage George Barter, Greyhound P.H. Fore place missioner for oaths, clerk to the trustees of the Sherring Frances M. (Mrs.), farmer, Rites farm,East rd Netherbury charities & to Beaminster Sub-Committee Sherring William Lane, painter, Hogshill street · of Dorsetshire Local Pension Committee & steward Shiner James & Son, english timber merchants, &; saw to the manor of Slope, Church street mills; ash, oak & elm planks, felloes, spokes & whee~­ Leigh Robert, jun. (firm, Leigh & Son), solicitor, com­ stocks, field gates & posts, coffin boards &c. Ea ... t missioner for oaths &; clerk to the commissioners of road; & Ottery St. Mary, Devon. Telegrams, taxes, clerk to the Beaminster Rural District Council, "Shiner, Beaminster" clerk to the guardians & assessment committee of Swaffield Charles, dairyman, Chantry Beaminster union, clerk to Governors of the Bea­ Swaffield Frederick, farmer, Northfield minster & Netherbury Grammar school foundation & Swaffield Herbert Conway, East street superintendent registrar of Beaminster district, Swaffield John, farmer, Whitcombe Church street Swaffield Zillah (Mrs.)_, farmer, Stonecombe farm Lloyds Barrk Limited (branch) (open daily 10 to 3; Swatridge Richard, corn factor &; miller (water), Fore pl wed. ro to I; thurs. xo to 4) (Ashley .Brooks, man­ Synies George, 'mason, Fleet street ager), Fore place; draw on London l:e1d office, 71 Tizzard Francis John, Eight Bells inn, Chu.reh street Lombard street E C Toleman A.& E.ironmongers, sanitary engineers, painters Macey Thomas, hair dresser, Hog-shill street & glazi&rs, & tin plate workers & agricultural implement Millward Joseph M.R.C.V.S. veterinary surgeon agents, & agents to the Atlas Insurance Co. Fore Morey Francis Read, farmer, West Axnoller place. T N 6 · Morey JO'hn Marsh, traclion engine & threshing machine Tolley Henry Spreke, farn:er, Buckham mill (postal .proprietor, Eas.t road address, South Perrott, Misterton) National Deposit Friendly Society (W. E. Woodward, Travers Clement, coal merchant, Fleet street sec.) ; lodge room, Congregational school room Trotman Fiennes (firm, Kitson & Trotman), solicitor & Newberry Waiter, Swan P.H. Fleet street deputy steward of the manors, Fleet street Newman Elizabeth (Mrs.), ironmonger, North street Tuck Henry James, thatcher & farmer, Bowgrove Newman Joseph T. beer retailer, Hogshill street Tuck Moses, thatcher, Gerrard's Green Newman William B. manager of gas works &; Ru.ral Wakely John Matthew Coombs, farmer, Lower Meerhay District water works, St. Mary street Warren Charles L. farmer, Yewstock farm Norris Sydney J. town crier,& Bell & Crown P.H.East st Warren Wm. Larcombe, saddler & harness ma. Fore place Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, No. 4754, Loyal Friendship Way John, Three Horseshoes P.H. Beaminster bottom Lodge (Arthur J. Shiner, sec.); lodge room, Congre­ Weaver Robert Davis, blacksmith, White Hart street gational school room Weaver George, farmer, Broadwindsor road OJiver .A.deliza. (Miss), confectioner & fancy repository, Weaver William Henry, White Hart hotel, White Hart st Hogshill s•treet Welsford William G. shopkeeper, East street Painter J ames, farmer, East Axnoller We)lt Sur.rey Oentral Dairy Co. Limited, North street Palk William & Son, dental surgeons, Hogshill street Whitemore George, head gardener to T. W. RusseU esq. Payne Ruth (Mrs.), farmer, Wellwood ' North street . Pile J. Frank, farmer, Barrowfield William<~ Nioholas John,draper & outfitter,White Hart st Pim Arthur A., F.R.C.S. & L.R.C.P.Edin. & L.R.F.P.S. Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Ltd. see Lloyds Bank Ltd Glas. (firm, Daniel, Kitson & Pim), physician & sur­ Winter John, boot maker, North street • geon, & medical officer &; public vaccinato:J," to the WFixon Matthew, shopkeeper, Fleet street :BEER HACKETT with KNIGHTON. BEER HACKETT is a parish, on a small stream which dates from the year I549· The living is a rectory, net flows into the Yeo, r mile north from Yetminster yearfy value £149, in the gift of A. S. Williarns esq. -station on the Weymouth branch of the Great Western and held since Sherborne and 5 M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge, who is also rector south-east from Yeovil, in the Northern division of the of and resides at Thornford. The principal landowner i11 county, hundred, union and petty sessional division of F. J. B. Wingfield-Dig-by esq. J .P. who is lord of the Sherborne, Yeovil county court district, rural deanery manor. The soil is clay; subsoil, rock. The land i~ of Shaftesbury (Sherborne portion), archdeaconry of chiefly in pasture. The area is gr8 acres ; rateablP Dorset and diocese of Salisburv.• The chureh of St. value, £1,328; the population in rgn, including the Michael is a stone building in the Early English style, tithing of KNIGH'l'O~, I mile south-east, was 77· consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and ·a western Sexton, Benjamin Lane. tower containing 3 bells : the stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. Frank Newington B.A. vicar of The children of this place attend the schools at Yet­ Osmington, who died October xo, 1877: the church was minster & Lillington rebuilt in r882, with the exception of the tower, at a Letters through Yetminster, via Sherborne. Yet­ cost of about £r,xoo, and in r897 the tower was rebuilt minster, I mile distant, is the nearest money order at a cost of £570; there are wo sittings. The register & telegraph office

COMMERCIAL. Burridge Thomas, farmer Partridg-e Peter, farmer Bowditch Frederick, farmer Jolliffe Waiter, farmer Rose Albert, farmer, Claypits farm Buckland Frederick, farmer,Knighton Moore & Morris, farmers Whittle Wm. Collis, farmer, Trill fm Buckland Harry Albert, farmer, Morris Ho ward, farmer, see Moore & Wills Hy. farmer, Lower Knighton Higher farm, Knighton Morris :BELCHAL WELL is a small village, 2! miles south­ bury. The church (not dedicated) is a plain building west from Shillingstone station on the Midland and of stone, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north South Western Juncti9n railway, 8 north-west from aisle, and has a fine Norman south porch and a square Blandford and 4 south from Sturminsrer Newton, in the embattled tower on the south side, containing one bell; Northern division of the county, in Okeford. Fitzpaine it was reseated in r872, and has subsequently been civil parish, hundred of Cranborne, petty sessional divi­ restored: there are roo sittings. With the exception sion and union of Sturminster Newton, Blandford county of a few fragments, the early registers were destroyed court district, rural deanery of Whitchurch (Milton by fire; the present one dates from 1842. The hvmg !JOrtion), archdeaconry of Dorset and dwcese of Sahs- is a rectory, united to that of Ibberton, average joint