DIRECTORY. J DO RSETSHIRE. POWERSTOCK. 167 Royal Portland Dispensary (Thomas Pentin Rev. Herbert M.A. (vicar of Pearce Benjamin Gibbs, boot maker Howard M.ll., B.Ch. & Henry R. St. Peter & acting chaplain to the P£>arce William, assistant ()Verseer, Henley L.S.A. medical officers) Forces), Vicarage collector of poor rates,regr.of births Royal Joseph Harris, watch maker, & COMMERCIAL. & deaths, No. 3, Portland sub-dis post office Benfield Henry, boot & shoe dealer trict, Weymouth union,agent to Nor Sansom Annie (Miss), confeetioner Fisher William Henry, Clifton hotel; wich Union Fire Office & to Trades Sansom Edward Comben, news agent overlooking the prison quarries; Protection Societies, Clarendon bo Saunders Alfred, hauling contractor luncheons & dinners provided ; good Saunders Michael Joseph L.R.C.:P.I. Score Richard & Sons, gr{)cers stabling, Grove physician, Moorfield road Score William Henry, draper Hilliar George, ,::(Tocer Smith Harrv,• fried fish dealer Scott W alter F. tailor Holmes Dinah (Mrs.), Eagle P.H South Portland Liberal Club (Simon Simmonds Franlr L., M.P.S. chemist Hoskins Thomas H. beer retailer A.ttwooll, sec.), Morfield road Smith Bert, baker Male Tom, beer retailer Wallis Wm. Thos. bookseller & British Smith John Robert, beer retailer Marsh Howard Evan, grocer, & post & Foreign Bible Society depot 'South Dorset Steam Laundry Co. office Weymouth & District Co-operative Limited, laundry Parker George, insurance agent SociPty Ltd (Alfred Oakley, sec) Stone J. M. & Sons, builders, 7 Sampson Fanny (Mrs.), dairy keeper Willis Charles John M.P.S. chemist Malhms Sansford James, Grove inn Stone John Richard, linen draper Stone Jane (Miss), shopkeeper SOUTHWELL. Stone J oseph, boot & sh{)e dealer Wallace Thomas, shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Stone Saml. Geo. monumental mason Pearce William, shopkeeper Symes Gustav11s Phelps,commissioner REFOR~. Stone Elizh. (Mrs.), Eight Kings P.H for oaths, & solicitor to Portland Hancock Robert Stone Lydia (Miss), shopkeeper Urban District Council, New road COMMERCIAL. Thompson Frank, grocer Thomas Wm. sad.dler & harness ma Attw{)oll & Son, g-rocers Thorne Charles, beer retailer Gibbs Wm. shopkpr. Grosvenor road WAKEHAM. Thresher :\lary (Mr-s.), shopkeeper Jolliffe William Francis, plumber, PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Trevett Sarah Ann (Mrs.), Royal Port- Grosvenor -road CorbPn William Henry, Rock cottage land Arms P.H Lano Jonathan & Sons, farmers &: Davis Capt. John .Tames, Perryfield . Turner Ernest, draper (firm, Castle haulage contractors, 39 Grosven.or Head Mrs. J. Merrick, Pennsylvania & Turner) road castle Vine John R. draper Patten Richard Fredk. insur. agent Hibbert Rev. Joseph (United Meth) Warren Joseph, stationer Pearce Robert, George P.H Lano Reginald, Stoneycrnft Way Alice (Miss), shopkeeper · Pearce William, beer retailer Lilley Arthur S Way C. Elworthy, baker Skinner Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Pearce John, Stonecle Way John, house furnisher Smith George Henry, inspector of Pearce-Lano Mrs Wellard Wm. Hy.beer retlr.Albert ter nuisances to the Portland Urban Scriven John P. Vespe1 Wells Alfred John, beer retailer District Council COMMERCIAL. Wesleyan Soldier~• & Sailors' RomP BfJnfield William, boot warehous~ (Rev. Richard Hall, sec) STRAITS. Coombe Abraham Gibbs, quarry ow'nr White James, fried fish dealer PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Driver Henry Thos. china & glass dlr · White Thomas, shopkeeper Pearce Edward John, The Bungalow, Elliott Henry, insurance agent Willis Chas. John M.P.S. chemist MoorfiPld road Gaudern Benjamin, Mermaid inn Wills Thomas H. Royal P.H PParce J os{lph, Zylklak{l, Moorfield rd Goodger Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper Sanndprs Michael J sph. Moorfield rd Goodwin William, shopkeeper GROVE. • COMMERCIAL. Kinsella Dennis, beer retailer Residents in the Prison. Attwooll Henry Malcolm, collector to Lilley Arthur S. engineer & surveyor French Louis .Alex. W.,M.R.C.S.Eng., the Portland Urban District Coun to Urban District Council L.R.C.P.Lond. (deputy medical cil & dPpnty registrar of births & Pearce John (Portland Stone Co.Ltd.),. officer) d·eaths Portland sub-district quarry owners Jervis Rev. Enstace M.A. (chaplain), Baker & Co. wine & spirit merchants Pearce Jn. jun. coal mer. Rockleigh Chaplain's house Comben & Son, bakers Richards John, chimney sweeper J ohnson Capt. L. W. (deputy governr) Fall Richard, tobacconist Seeley Alfred George, grocer O'Loughlin Rev. Andrew (Catholic Hansford William,. boot maker Stone Ann (Mrs.), draper • Helyear J ames, beer retailer chaplain) WESTON. Schuyler Capt. Edwd. E. (governor) Hicks Charles, shopkeeper Smith Maurice Hamblin M.R.C.S., Lawrence .Annie & Kathleen (Misses), COMMERCIAL. · L.R.C.P. (medical officer) butchers Comben William, Prince Alfred P.H Love John, confectioner Durston Elizabeth (Mrs.), draper PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Lynham Mary (Mrs.), builder Hoskins Benjamin J. beer retailer Chambers H'"arry K. Ivy bank Otter John Rd. insur. agent, New st Mitchell Richard, shopkeeper Kiely Very Rev. Canon Waiter (Cath) Patten Gilmour, builder W albridge George, blacksmith
POWEBISTOCK (or Poorstock) is a parish, having a Early English font of Purbeck marble : the church was station on the Bridport branch of the Great Western rail restored in 1859 at a cost of about [.2,2oo, and affords way, and is I mile north-west from the village and 151 350 sittings. The register dates from the year 1568. miles from London, 4 north-east from Bridport and 6 The living is a vicarage, with West Milton annexed, south-east from Beaminster, in the Western division of joint net yearly value [.233, with 85 acres of glebe and the county, hundred of Eggardon, but chiefly in the residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Salis liberty of Powerstock, Beaminster union, Bridport petty bury, and held since 1906 by the Rev. William Francis Rickman M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford, who is also 'sessional division and countv• court district, rural deanery of Bridport (Bridport portion), archdeaconry rector of North Poorton. The poor's land produces of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The Mangerton [.2 17s. 6d. yearly for bread, £.5 for coal, and x8s. for river flows through this parish. The church of St. Mary general purposes. Afl the end of the Roman road from is a building of stone, principally in the Decorated Dorchester is a hill named "Eggardon," partly in style, and consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south Powerstock pari~h and partly in that of Askerswell, porch, and an embattled western tower, containing a and 820 feet above the sea level; on this eminence are clock with chimes, and 5 bells, rehung in 1897: the remains of two fortified camps. Col. the Earl of Sand chancel contains six stained windows ; the stained west wich K.C.V.O. is lord of the manor. Capt. Hugh window is a memorial to the Ven. Thomas Sanctuary Blomfield Nicholson J.P. is the principal landowner. :M.A. archdeacon of Dorset, and vicar of this parish, The soil is varied ; limestone, sandy loam, clay and 1848-89 : the original chancel arch is still preserved chalk; subsoil, rocky. The chief crops are wheat, bar and is a highly interesting example of the Early Nor ley, oats and some land in pasture. The area is 4,n6 man period; its capitals are enriched with characteristic acres ; rateable value, [.5,I83; the population of the sculpture and its pillars with a variety of arabesque civil parish in xgn, with the tithings, was 668, and of ' patterns: the south do(ll"way is elaborately adorned the ecclesiastical parish, 62o, including part of Melplash. with niches flanked by panelled and crocketed buttresses and pinnacles, the principal niche containing a group WYTHERSTONE is a tithing, I mile north-east of of the Virgin and Child: at the base of the tower Powerstock ; here is an extensive cutting on the Brid are some remains of sculptured stones which belong to port railway. There is no church ; the living is a the Early Norman period: there is a fine brass eagle decayed sinecure rectory, yearly value [.62, in the lectern, a panelled pulpit enriched with sculptured gift o-f Henry F. Compton esq. and held since xgo6 by effigies of St. Peter, St. John and the Virgin, and an the Rev. Alfred Charles Harvey Earle, who is also