Dewlish. (Dorset.]

DIR~CTORY• 3l DEWLISH. (DORSET.] Rixen William1 furmer Still William, cooper & lathrender Wareham William, shopkeeper San8om Willi!Hil, farmer, A~hes Thoma~ J osi11.h, carpenter & wheelwrght Waters William,farmer Simmonds James, fdrmer, Oakey Tink Robert, farmer, Monckton-up- Witt Amhrose, farmer, Verwood Stanford James, steward to the Marquis 'Vimhorne YoungJohn, blacksmith of Salisbury, Manor house Ware Jane (Mrs.), i!'onmonger & smith PosT 0FFICB.-MiEs M11.ry Ann Harveyl postmistress., arrive per mail cart from Salisbury at 7 a.m.; dispatched Money orders are granted & paid at this office. Letters at 25 m in, after 6 p.m. Box closes at ~ past 5 St. Bartholomew's Church, Rev. John H. Carne~ie, \'icar tuesday & saturday; James Gray, from Wimborne, call8 Relieving Officer~ Reg'istrar of Birth$~ Deaths (Gran- at the ' Sheaf of Arrows,' every ntonday morning at 12, borne District), John Hunt returns tuesday afternoon at 4 CARRIERS TO & FROM SALISBURY-Robert Bound, every DEWLlSH is ll. remote \'illage, lying in a hollow, and Andrew's, and enjoyed by the Rev. Thomas Blare, who bounded on the east by an extensive plantation j it is a officiates here and at Milborne 8t. Andrew's alternately, parish and Liherty, in Oorchester Union and di\"ision, morning- and afternoon. There i~ a chapel for Wesleyans; situated 8 mile9 north-east of Dorchester, 6 north-We9t also a Parochial school. The Old Manor House (so called from Beer Regis, 10 south-west from Blandford; the from its having been formerly the residence of the lord of population, in 1851, was 442, with 2,090 acres. A con- the manor) is a very ancient building, hut having fallen to siderable trade in wire shirt-button making was formerly decay, was partially res,ored, but much reduced in dimen carrie'i on here, but has now nearly declined; the chief sions, A small brook runs through the parish. In 1UO a employment is agriculture. The church is a very ancient tesselated pavement was discovered here, and other Romaa building, with square tower, completely covered with ivy. remains. The living is a vicarage, united to that of Milborne St. CHEBBARD is 1 mile west. Harding ~fr. James Bragg William, 1 Royal Oak' Rogers Rohert, farmer S:ymes Mr. Henry Cole George, grocer, & boot & shoe ma Ross David, miller Symes Mr. William Cracker Christopher, farm bailiff Sheppard Elizabeth (Mrs.), Rhopkeeper Walmsley John, esq. Dewlish house Cutler Charles, stonemason Squibb Joseph, brewer & baker TRADERS, Harding James, farmer Syme3 \Vm. maltster, farmer&; brewer Alner John, blacksmith Kingsbury Robert, carpenter Letters are received from Dorchester .Barnett Jspb. grocer, & boot & shoe ma Mayne George, parish clerk through the Piddletown post office. Bass Henry, farm bailiff Morris Em ilia (Mrs.), parochial se hool The nearest money order office is at Best Henry, land steward & bailiff mistress Dorchester DOH.CHESTEK. communicate with the centre building in each story by DoRCHESTER, the county town 1 a borough, Union, and cast-iron bridges sprung from the several galleries. At market town, in the Dorchester division, is 16 miles south the top of the lodge there is a flat roof, covered with west from Blandford, 15 west from Bridport, 8 north frorh copper, on which the executions t<J.ke place, lt being in Weymouth, 18 east-by-!!outh from Beaminster, and 120 view of all the criminal prisonr.rs. A new entrance, with from London by the old coach road, but by the rail porter's lodge, has recently been erected from the nhrtll way through Southampton 140i miles. It was one of the square. The old Market-house and Town-hall over lt ha\·e strongest and most extensive of the Roman stations, been taken down, and a new one of stone and brick is under the name of Durnovaria, and some remains of the now built by Samuel Slade on the old site, from desi~ns Roman walls are now to be seen, which form part of the by Benjamin Ferrey, Esq., in the Elizabethan style. The garden-wall of Mrs. Stone, It is a regular and well-built Union workhouse, erected in 1836, is a rough stone and town on the river Frame and Ikening Street, and com brick building, half a mile south-west of the town, in prises the parish of St. Peter, Holy Trinity, All Saints, the open fields. The Union includes 39 parishes. The gas and Fordington; the population, in 1851, was 6,394. The works, In Bell-street, have been a great boon to the in houses are chiefly modern, built of brick and stone, and habitants. comprise three principal street~-viz., East, West, and Dorchester has, with Fordington, four churches arid South. The approach from London, Bridport, or Wey a chapel. Holy Trinity, in High West-street, is a plain moutb. road, is through a long and well-formed avenue of but commodious building; the interior is very neat, and sycamore, lime, and chestnut trees; and the south and west has a fine-toned organ; the living is a rectory, in the gift side of the town has walks between avenues of fine trees, of the feofiees of the Free school anrl Almshouse charities; forming a beautiful promenade, commanding an extensive Rev. William Huller, M.A., rector1 and the Rev. J. B. prospect over the downs and surrounding country. The Austis, curate. St. Peter's is a large ancient Gothic pile town is well paved, and lighted with gas, and derives great in the centre of the town J it ha!! a handsome embattled adYantages from the railway station opened here, it being tower, 90 feet high, and 8 bells; the intetior is neatly the extreme terminus of the South Western railway. The pewed, contains several monumental tablets, and an organ. branches from here to Weymouth and Yeovil are expected The living is a rectory, value £184, in the gift of the shortly to be opened. The borough Is governed by a Crown; the Rev. John Morton Colson, is the rector. All mayor, four aldermen, twelve councillors, and sends two Saints' church was rebuilt in 1844; it is a splendid edifice memberil to Parliament: the present are Richard Brinsley of stone, with lancet windows, and contains a superbly Sheridan, Esq., and Henry Gerard Sturt1 Esq.; the number pain.ted window in the chancel, with the effigy of the giver, of voters ia about 400 ; the mayor is the returning officer. the Bishop of Salisbury; it is admirably executed. The The assizes are held here, as also the quarter sessions, at living is a vicarage, value £84, in the patronage of the the Connty-hall, which is a spacious and well-arranged mayor and corporation; the RE!v. Evan Davies, vicar j building; it is fronted with Portland stone, which renders the Rev. John Townson, M:. A.., curate. Fordlngton church, it ornamental. It ls the place of election for the county situated 1 mile east of the town, stands on an eminence; and i1 polling-plaee. The Dotset County Hospital, in the it is an ancient stone structure, originally built in the south part of the town, in a very healthy @ituatioc, and form of a cross, and dedicated to St, George; it has a high overlooking a large nursery-ground, was built in 1841 by embattled tower with pinnacles, and a modern clock j Samuel Slade and Goddardj from designs by Benjamin over the south porch are the effigies of St. George and the Ferrey, Esq., in the Tudor style; at present it furnishes Dragon, t11dely c11.rved in stone. The living i~ a vicarage, accommodation for 33ln-door patients, but possesses ample value £225, in the patronage of the prebend of Fording room for a larger number, according to the requirements ton; the Rev. Henry Moule, M:.A., vicar J the Rev. George of the county and the amount of contributions. The Moule, B. A., curate. Christ church (a chapelry), in Grove County gaol,a handsome building, situated on the north side buildings, half a mile north-west of the town, was erected of the town, on the site of the ancient castle, was erected in 1840; it is a plain but very pretty edifice, with 1 bell j in 1793 on the plan of Mr. Howard, at an expense of the interior is neatly pewed; the living is united to that £16,17910s. 6d., since which it has been enlarged and of Fordington; the Rev. Augustus Handley, B.A . .j is the much improved; extra wings have been added; it now incumbent. 'l'here are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, contains 140 sleeping cells; there are likewise receptioti Independents, and Unitarians. The Free Grammar school, cells fitted up in the lodge, a house of correctionf and a founded in 1569 by Mr. Hardy, is situated in South-street; treadmill. The wings of the prison1 although detached, a small Endowed school in Trinity churchyard, for the .

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