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Tizard Alfred George, tea, coffee &; wine merchant, 12 Wellman Thomas, builder, 23 High st. Ea. Fordington South street; &; at Weymouth West of England Sack Hiring Co. (A.rtlmr S. Hill,. Toup Maria (Miss), confectioner, 3 High East street agent), Great Western road Tudor John, surgeon, 24 High West street Westbrook E. (Miss), fancy repository, 55 High 1-Yest st Upham E. &; C. (Misses), dreoss makers, 9 South street Wheeler Edward, Weigh Bridge P.R. 47 The Grove Vallens Chas.Dolphin P.R.9 Church st.&blacksmith,Bell st Whetstone's Almshouses, Church street Vatcher John, Dorchester Arms P.R. 20 North square White .Annie (Miss), dress maker, l:.l Trinity street Vincent James,boot maker &; town crier,41 Glyde Path rd White Elizabeth (Miss), dress ma. 35 Great Western rd Vine Stephen, corn merchant, 8 Righ East street; &; W'hite Thomas, wood dealer, East Fordington miller, West Fordington Willshire In. Francis R. insurance agt. IS St. Helens rd' Vine Thomas, Old Rouse at Rome P.R. 16 Salisbury sI Williams (R. &; R.), Thornton, Sykes &; Co. Dorchester Virgin Henry, dairyman, 43 High ""Vest street Ol..!i Bank; head office, 2 High West street; draw on Virgin James T. baker, 15 High East street Williams Deacon &; Manchester &; Salford Bank Lim. Volunteer Battalion (1st) Dors-etsrnre Regiment (Hon. London EC Col. R. Williams V.D. commandant; Maj. W. A. Camp Williams Thomas, cabinet maker, 24 The Grove oell, adjutant; Hon. Capt. T. R. Cross, V.D. quarter Wilts &; Dorset Banking Co. Limited (John Mil:ard Lush. master) (C Co. Capt. H. S. Williams, commanding; manager), 34 High East street; draw on London &. Sergeant Instructor, Henry Grant); head quarters of \Vestminster 'Bank Limited, London EC battalion &; C. Co. Princes street Wiltshire George, builder, 23 Bridport terrace Voss Cornelius, upholsterer, 14 Prince's street Wiltshire James, provision dealer, 21 Prince's street VoS's Joseph, builder, 20 Durngate· street Winzar Thomas, blacksmith &C.23 King st.E.FordingtoIl' Wake Henry, beer retailer &; baker, I "Sydney terrace Witheford Edwin, chief warder in charge at H.M. prison, WaIters Richard, Old Ship inn, 16 High West street North square Warren James, provision merchant, 25 High East street Wood George John, upholsterer, 52 High West street Warren Samuel, wheelwright, 30 The Grove Wood William, furniture dealer, 48 High East street Watkins William John, builder, 3 Damers road Wright Gideon &; Son, grocers, 19 High East street Watling Henry S. r'6sident cashier at Stuckey's Bank, Young Men's Christian Association (William Dixonr 49 South street sec.), 39 High East street Webber Adeline &; Rose(Misses),stationers,18 High East st Young Women'·s Christian Association (Miss Alice Thorn Wescott Edward Charles, monumental mason, 9 East ton, sec.), 4 Church l!treet parade &; Maurrnbery road
DURWESTON is a parish, 3 miles north-west from papers; the room was given by the late Viscount Port Blandford station on the Midland and South Western man, and the Primitive Methodists hold divine service· Junction Railway, in the Northern division of the county, therein. A brewery and a~rated water manufactory is hundred of Pimperne, petty sessional division, union and carried on by Mr. H. C. Godwin. In this parish is county court district of Blandford, rural deanery of Knighton, occupied by A. W. Heber-Percy esq. but the Whitchurch (Milton portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and property of Viscount Portman, the lord of the manor diocese of Salisbury. The J:iver Stour is crossed by a and sole landowner. The soil varies; subsoil, chalk. bridge of three arches, on the east of the village. The The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The are31 church of St. Nicholas is an edifice of flint and stone is r,8n acres; rateable value, £1,809; the popUlation in the Transition style, consisting of chancel, nave of in 1891 was 472. five bays, south aisle and south porch, with a square Knighton tithing was formerly a distinct parish. westem embattled tower with pinnacles containing 5 Parish Clerk, Charles Adlem. bells, one of which was added in 1887; a stone carving to St. Eloi, the patron saint of blacksmiths, has been PO!!t Offiee.-George Hayward, sub-postmaster. Let discovered, and is now placed over the church entrance; ters arrive from Blandford at 5.20 a.m. &; 1.50 p.m. the figures had been mutilated, probably by Cromwell's (for callers only); dispatched at 11.15 a.m. &; 7.30 commissioners: there are 300 sittings. The register p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. dates from the year 1598. The living is a rectory, with The nearest money order &; telegraph office is at that of Bryanston annexed, average tithe rent-oharge Blandford £326, joint gross yearly value £430, net £354, includ National School (mixed); a new school with master's ing 92 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of residence attached was erected in 1893, near the Viscount Portman, and held since 1893 by the Rev. church, by Viscount Portman, at a cost of £1,200; William Mason Anderson RA. of St. John's College, number on the books 148; average attendance, 135 ; Cambridge. Here is a news-room and library of 500 the school has a children's library of 250 volumes; volumes; it is supplied with the daily and weekly Orlando Sheppard. master . PRIVA.TE RESIDENTS. Bartlett WaIter, dairyman Godwin Henry Colpitts, brewer, malt- Anderson Rev. Wm. Mason B.A.Rectry Bartlett William Cox, farmer ster &; aerated water manufacturer,. Attenbrow Francis WILter Cutler James, farmer &; woodman Durweston brewery ~ Barnes George Alfred Durwest.on Cricket Club (Orlando Hardy Ann (Mrs.),carpenter&whlwrght, Godwin Henry Colpitts, Portman ldg Sheppard, hon. sec) Hayward George, carpenter &; shop Godwin The Misses, Portman lodge Durweston Reading Room (William keeper, Post office Percy AIan William Heber-, Knighton C. Bartl:ett, hon. sec) Lane Frank, .shopkeeper COMMERCIA.L. Foot Henry O. shoe maker Raps'OnHy.butchr. beer ret. & farmer Adlem Tom & Charles, blacksmith. Gifford John Phippen, farmer Rickman Frederick, miller (water) • EDMONDSHAM is a village and parish, 2! miles charity of £5' yearly, derived from a charge upon the north-west from Verwood station 'On the Salisbury and Edmondsham estate, is for two poor widows; Gold Dorset branch of the London and South Western rail wyer's, £5 yearly, derived from deed of gift made in way, I mile south from Cranborne, and IQ north-east 1808 by Dr. Goldwyer, is for distribution in bread. from Wimborne, in the Eastern division of the county, Edmondsham Manor House, built in 1589, and the pro hundrred of Cranborne, petty sessional division and perty and residence of Hector Monro esq. D.L., J.P. is county court district of Wimborne, union of Wimborne an ancient edifice of stone, in the Elizabethan style, and and Cranbome, rural deanery of Pimperne (Wimborne stands in a park of about 75 acres. The principal land portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salis owners are Hector Monro esq. who is lord of the manor,. bury. The church of St. Nicholas is an ancient building and the Earls of Normanton and Shaftesbury. The soil of stone in the Norman style, which has been restored is heavy; subsoil, chalk and clay. The chief crops are and reseated with open benches: it consists of chancel, barley, wheat and oats. The area is 1,803 acres; rate nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled tower able value, £I,362; the population in 189I was 231. at the west end of the north aisle: beneath the eastern By a Local Government Board Order, dated March end of the north aisle is the family vault of the Husseys, 25th, I886, a detached part of Gussage All Saints, known the ancient owners of the parish: there are 150 sittings. as Painsmoor Copse, was amalgamated with this parish. The register dates from the year 1573. The living is a Parish Clerk, Stephen Stratton. rectory, tithes commuted at £318, average £240, net income £204, with 3 acres of glebe and residence, in the Letters through Salisbury via Cranborne, which is also gift of Hector Monro esq. and the Earl of Shaftesbury th(IJ nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive at conjointly. and held since 1888 by the Rev. Ernest 11 a.m. Letter Box, in the rectory wall, cleared at 5 p.m Henry Snepp L.Th. of Hatfield Hall, Durham. A Primi National School (mixed), built in 1858, for 50 children; tive Methodist chapel was erected in 1848. Hussey'iI average attendance, 35; Mrs. Bates, mistress