DIRECTORY. 579 ABBOTSBURY. [DORSET.] Sir John James Smith, bart. the Down house, Blandford Henning William Lewis, Frome house, Dorchester Sir John Geo. Reeve De la Pole, bart. Shute ho. Axminster Hoskins William, Misterton, Crewkerne1 Somerset Sir John Hesketh Lethbridge, bart. the Belvidere, W eymth Hussey John, Naish court, Marnhull, B1andford Sir Henry Bayly, K.H. Bath Lambert \Villiam Charles, Knowle house, Wimborne Sir Edward J ohnson, K.c.B. Weymouth Loveridge Charles Warre, Chard, Somerset McAiister Charles Archibald, Loup cottage, Axminster, :£squires. Devon Adye Willett Lawrence, Merly house, Wimborne Malet Charles St. Lo, Child Okeford, Blandford Aitcbison Robert, Lyndhurst, Rants Manning Charles Augustus, Portland Castle, Weymouth Allford William N aish, Sherborne Manse! John, Smedmore house, Wareham Bankes John Scott, 96 Baton place, London Manse! John Clavell, Longthorns, Blandford :Bankes Edmund George, Kingston hall, ·wimborne Manse! George Pleydell, Langton lodge, Blandford Baskett J ames Thomas, Wimborne Manse! Mm·ton Grove, Puncknowle, Dorchester Bayly Thomas Davis, Herringstone house, Dorchester Meade John Spencer, Little V en, l\Iilborne port, Sherborne Bingham Richd. Hippisley, Binghams Melcombe, Dorchstr Michel Charles Edward, Dewlbh, Dorchester Bourne Frederic Edward, Roseville, Lyme Regis Middleton Hastings N athaniel, Ilsington, Dorchester Bower Thomas Bowyer, Iwerne house, Blandford Miles George FrPderick Wm. Ford Abbey, Chard, Somerset :Bragge William, Sadborow house, Chard Monro Hector, Edmondsham house, Cranborne Bridge John Edward, the Manor house, Piddletrenthide, Okeden William Parry, Turnworth, Blandford Dorchester Parke Charles, Henbury house, \Vimborne :Brouncker Richard, Boveridge, Cranborne Parke Charles Joseph, Henlmry house, '\\-imborne Brymer John, Weymouth Pinney William, M.P. Somerton, Somerset :Sullen John Tatchell, l\Iarshwood manor, Bridport Portman Henry William Berkeley, Dean's court, 'Vimborne Butt George Medd, Q.C. 17 Eaton square, London Pretor Samuel, Wyke Regis, ·weymouth Calcraft John Hales, Rempston hall, Wareham Scarbrough John Latoysonere, Stafford house, Colyford, Cambridge Henry Pickard, Bloxworth house, Blandford Axminster Cartwright George, Lyme Regis Seymer Henry Ker, M.P. Hanford, Blandford Castleman Edward, Chettle, Blandford Sheridan Richard Brinsley, M.P. Frampton court,Dorche.,ter Churchill George, Alderholt park, Fordingbridge Smith Edward Heathcote, Sydling house, Dorchester Cox Samuel, Beaminster Solly William Hammond, Bloxworth, Blandford Curry Douglas, Chettle, Blandford Steele Henry Perin, Beaminster Dale James Charles, Glanvilles Wootton, Sherborne Still N athaniel Try on, Axminster, De'ron Damer Lionel Seymour William Dawson, l'II.P. Came house, St. Lo George Lewis, l\Iarsh court, Sherborne Dorchester Sturt Henry Charles, Critchell house, Wimborlle Digby Charles Wriothesly, Studland, 'Vareham Sturt Henry Gerard, M.P. Critchell house, Wimborne Drax John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erie, Charborough Sturt Charles Napier, M.P. Critchell house, Wimborne park, Blandford Swaffield Robert HassellOwen, WestDown lodge, Vi" eymouth Drew Frederick William, 'Vootton house, Bridport Weld Edward, Lulworth castle, Wareham Du Boulay John, Donhead hall, Ludwell, Salisbury \'Veld Charles, Chideock, Bridport Eliot Richard Ffolliott, Weymouth Whieldon George, Wyke house, Gilling-ham Eliot William, Weymouth 'nlliams Herbert, Stinsford house, Dorchester Falwasser John Frederick, Sherborne Williams Montague, W oolland house, Blandford Farquharson J ames John, Langton, Blandford Williams Robert, Bridehead house, Dorchester Farquharson J ames John, jun. Castle hill, Dorchester Whitehouse Richard, L~me Regis Farrer Oliver William, Encombe, Wareham Wood John, Martock, ;:;omerset Fellowes J ames, Kingston house, Dorchester Yeatman l\Iarwood Shuttleworth, Stock house, Sherborne Floyer John, Stafford, Dorchester Foster Augustus, Warmwell, Dorchester Clerks. Foster Augustus Billet, W armwell, Dorchester Austen John Hiley, Ensbury, 'Vimborne Fox Edward, Beaminster Bastard J olm, Fifehead N eville, Blandford Frampton HeBry, 1\Ioreton, Dorchester Bingham Charles ·wmiam, Binghams 1'\-Ielcombe, Dorchester Freestun William Lockyer, the Belvidere, '''eymouth Blennerhassett John, Ryme, Sherborne Garland John Bingley, Stone cottage, Wimborne Bond N athaniel, the Grange, W areham Good den John, Compton house, Sherborne Boucher Henry, Thornhill, Blandford Goodden Henl'y Charles, Upway house, Dorchester Bower Henry Tregonwell, Shroton house, Blandford Gordon Robert, Leweston, Sherborne Cambridge George Pickard, Bloxworth house, Blandford Grant-Dalton, Dalton Foster, Parkstone, Poole Dade Thomas, Broadway, Dorchester Graves Robert, Charlton house, Ludwell, Salisbury, Wilts Garland George V allis, Langton l\'Iatravers, W areham Grove vVilliam Chafy-n, Zeal's house, Bourton, Bath Glyn Carr John, Witchampton, Wimborne Gundry Benjamin Pearkes, Bridport Goodden Wyndham Jeane, Nether Compton, Sherborne GuHdry J oseph, the Hyde, Bridport Hinds John Thomas, Pulham, Sherborne Gundry Samuel Bowden, Bradpole, Bridport Huxtable Anthony, Sutton Waldron, Blandford Hambro CharlesJoseph Theophilus, Abbey Milton,Blandford King William Moss, Lower Critchell, Wimborne Hanham Thomas Barnabas, Manston house, Blandford Sa1keld Robert, Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury Harbin George, Newton house, Yeovil, Somerset Templer James Acland, Puddletown, Dorchester Henley Henry Cornish, Leigh house, Chard 'Vatts John, Tarrant Gunville, Blandford Henning J ames, W olveton house, Dorchester • "Wills John, South Perrott, Beaminster
ABBOTSBl1R.Y is a lar~e town and parish, near the north of the abbey. The old tithe-barn of the monastery West Fleet and the sea, 9 miles south-west from Dorchester, is still in good preservation ; it i, 10.5 yards in length, 9 north-west from 'Veymouth, and 149 from London, in with large porch and buttresses on the north side ; U ggscombe hundred, \Veymouth union and county court adjoininB' thereto is an hexagonal tower, which leads to district, diocese of Salisbury, archdeaconry of Dorset, and the roof. Henry VIII. granted the manor to Sir Giles deanery of Bridport; it is pleasantly situated in a deep Strangeways, Knt., and it was confirmed by Elizabeth, valley, open to the sea, at the south-west, and sheltered with the fishery, water, and soil of East Fleet, also the by lofty hills to the north. It is of great antiquity; swannery and site of the monastery of West Fleet ; from Canute, the Saxon king, gave this place, together with this family it descended to the Earl of Ilchester. Here was several others, to Ore, his favourite steward. In early formerly a market. On an eminence south-west of the ages Bertulf built a church here, which he dedicated village is situated St. Catherine's chapel, a ruin of great to St. Peter, who is said to have consecrated it in person; antiquity, supposed to have been erected in the reign of that having gone to decay, Ore founded a monastery in Edward IV.; it is composed of stone, and strengthened the year 1044, and filled it with monks from Cerne abbey; by buttresses on the north and south sides; at the north he also endowed it with eight of the neighbouring manors. west angle is a tower; the roof is finely arched, and a few The abbey stood on a rising ground south of the village; of the ornaments are still extant. From its altitude it the ruins of the gateway to the abbey still remain in serves for a land and sea mark, being visible at a great dis tolerable preservation. Near this gateway is a wall tance. Nearly a mile to the south of the \ illage is the covered with ivy, supposed to be the ruins of a mansion swannery, decoy and keeper's house, where as many as 500 built on the site and out of the remains of the abbey, by swans are kept, together with all kinds of wild fowl. The Sir Giles Strangeways, and where he resided. . The con inhabitants art chiefly employed in the mackerel fishery and ventual church is supposed to haye stood a httle to the the culture of potatoes. The living is a vicarage, in the 38*