7 14~ OS}IINGTON. DORSETSHIRE. [KELLY S chapel. Mrs. Susannah Toogood left by will, in r8z6, are wheat, barley, oats and some pasture land. The the sum of £zoo, the interest of which is yearly ex- area is 2,.208 acres of land and 22 of foreshore; rateable pended in providing warm clothing for the aged poor; value, £z,685; the population in rgn was 33r. the interest on £2oo, left in rBgz by Ma~or E. A. Wood, EAST RINGSTEAD, 3 miles south-east, near the sea, is distributed annually in coal by the v1car to the poor now a hamlet, was once a parish, and has traces of the .of the parish; there is also a sum of £zoo, which olil church remaining; it gives name to Ringstead Bay. reverted to the parish in 1902 on the death of Mrs. E. A. Wood, the interest,. on which is distributed to the UPTON is a hamlet 1! miles east. poor in beef. On a hill in this parish is the colossal Parish Clerk, Tom Newman Tizzard. figure (){ a horse and rider, o£ nearly an acre in extent, Post, T, & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.-John cut in the chalk, and intended to represent King George Swyer, &ub-postmaster. Letters arrive from W ey- :rn. on horseback, which is visible for a long distance at mouth at 8 a.m. & 4.25 p.m. ; sundays, g.1o a.m.; sea. At Osmington Mills, about a mile from the village, dispatched at 9.40 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; sundays, 10 there is a coastguard station, with a chief officer and 6 a.m. The nearest money order office is at Lennox. .men. Here also is the celebrated old " Picnic Inn," street, Weymouth frequeuted by visitors from Weymouth for the lobsters Letter Box., near the 'Plough,' cleared at 9-40 a.m. & and prawns caught in the bay; the distance is 3! miles 6.30 p.m.; sundays, 10.5 a.m across from Weymouth by water. Osmington House, Coastguard Station, Daniel Jeffree, chief boatman the property of Mrs. Edwards, is a fine mansion, with about 1g acres of well-kept ground, and now (rg1S) Elementary School (mixed), built in 1835, for 54 chil- unoccupied. Mrs. Edwards, Robert Brutton esq. and dr{'n; Miss Julia Spinney, mistress Robert Hayne esq. are the chief landowners. The soil is Carrier.-Thomas Miller, to Weymouth, tues. &; fri. heavy clay; subsoil, clay and chalk. The chief crops to Dorchester, sat Ca.meron Capt. Ewen R.N., M.V.O.fBaldwin Henry Arthur, refreshment Jeffree Daniel, chief boatman in Hitts farm rms. The Chll.let, Osmington Mills charge. of Coastguard station, Gibb Col. John, Osmington lodge Coleman Alfred, farmer, Grove farm Osmington Mills Patison Miss, The Cottage Derryman Chas. farmer,Netherton fm Miller Frederick Thomas, Picnic inn, Shephard Lieut.-Col. Charles Sinclair Diment Joseph,farmer, Upton (letters Osmington Mills D.S.O. Shortlake should be addressed Broadmayne, Miller John, builder Smith Rev.Percivale .A.rthur Hippisley Dorchester) Miller Thomas, carrier M.A. (vicar), Vicarage Hansford Arthur Neale, farmer, East Puckett Sidney, head gardener to Symonds Arthur, Landbarrow, Os- farm Mrs. Edwards mington Mills Hansford Lewis, farmer, Charity frm Vagg Charles, butcher OOHMERCIAL. Hitt Lily (Miss), grocer Bagg Charles Thomas, Plough P.H OWERM.OIGNE is a parish and liberty, on the road Down to the sea. George Cecil Oree esq. who is lord of from Wareham to Dorchester, and extending to the sea the manor, and Col. Sir Robert Williams hart. M.P. coast, 2! miles south from Moreton station on the are the principal landowners. The soil is gravel; sub­ :Bournem()uth and Weymouth section of the London and soil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, oats, turnips South Western railway, and about 7 south-east-by-east and mangel wurzels. The area is 4,042 acres of land, from Dorchester, in the Southern division of the county, 2 of water and 9 of foreshore; rateable value, £2,430; petty sessional division of South Blandford, union and the populati()n in 19II was 331 in the civil and 289 in county court district of Weymouth, rural deanery of th3 ecclesiastical parish. Dorchester (Weymouth portion), archdeaconry of Dorset By Local GDvernment Board Order, a detached part of and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. Michael, Milton Abbas, known as Holworth, was, in 1ss9, added rebuilt in 1883, at the expense of the late Rev. John to this parish, for civil purposes only. Robert Cree, is an edifice of stone in the Gothic style, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and an G.ALTON is a hamlet half a mile south-east; SOUTH ancient embattled western tower, containing 3 bells: in DOWN a hamlet, 3 miles south. Among the barrows the chancel is a stained window: there are 140 sittings. on the heaths are Lord's Barrow and Mowlam's Barrow. 'Tlle register dates from the year 1569. The living is a Post Office. John W. Westmacott, sub-postmaster. Tectory, net yearly value £ 270, including 37 acres of Letters arrive through Dorchester; delivered at 6.50 glebe, with residence, in the gift of Col. Sir Robert o.. o.. d" t h d d ·1 t 6 o.. - - b M p d h Id . b h R a.m. 011 2.20 p.m.; 011 1spa c e a1 y a .5o a.m. w W I 11Iams art. . . an e smce 1899 y t e ev. 6-55 p.m.; sundays, 6-55 p.m. The nearest money William Rhvdderch, of Queen's College, Birmingham. order office is at Winfrith, which is about 2l miles Jones' charity of £4° yearly, arising from lands and distant, & Warmwell is the nearest telegraph office cottages left in r635 by Adam Jones, of Holworth, is for distribution. Moigne Combe, the seat of H. Pomeroy Wall Letter Box., Moigne Combe, cleared at 5-30 p.m. "Bond esq. J.P. erected in rgoo, is a mansion of brick, week days only standing in a well-wooded park of about so acres, Elementary School (mixed), erected by the late Rev. which contains a small lake and a fine trout stream, John Robert Cree in 1873, for Bo children; Miss S. and affords a very extensive view over the Chaldon Smeeton, mistress "Bond H. Pomeroy J.P. Moigne Combe Coleman George, farmer, West farm Moore Tom Andw. carpntr.& blcksmth (letters thro' Warmwell,Dorchester) Coleman Lewis, dairyman Sinnick Wi1liam, farmer 'Cree George Cecil, Moignes court · Diment Hugh, farmer Stickland Nathaniel, miller (water) &; Rhydderch Rev. William, Rectory Durden Wait. Wm. farmer, East frm farmer COMMERCIAL. Gould Gilbert, farmer, Galton Westmacott Jn. Wood.shpkpr.Post off "Barnes Waiter, dairyman, Galton Kellaway Bertha (Miss), farmer PAM PHILL, adjoining Wimborne Minster on the by the tenants an,d Mr. Lodder, agent to the estate: north-west, was constituted a separate civil parish out the window in the transept was the gift of Mrs. Bankes: of Wimborne by an Order of the Dorset County Council, the church affords sittings for about 2oo persons, and -23 June, 1894, and confirmed by the Local Government is served by the clergy of Wimborne Minster, the Rev. Board Order, Sept. 30, 1894, in accordance with the Taku John Constable Parry-Evans A.K.C.L. being resi­ ~'Local Government Act, 1894·" The parish includes dent curate. At t* ~ntrance to the church is a Pamphill, Hillbutts, King'ston Lacy, High Hall, Barns­ memorial <'ross, erected by Mrs. Bankes to the memory lay, Bradford and Cowg10ve. It is in the Eastern divi­ of her husband, who died in 1904. The Wimborm•, sion of the county, Badbury hundred, Wimoorne union, Pamphill and Colehill cemetery is in this parish. Adjoin­ -county court district and petty sessional division. The ing the school are eight almshouses of the Gillingham church of St. Stephen, at Kingston Lacy, erected in trm•t, erected in 1698, four being for men and four for 1907, at a cost of £4,000 (exclusive of the site), by the wcmen; each inmate receives 2s. per week, the appoint­ -trustees of the late Waiter Ralph Bankes esq. (d. 1904), ments being made by the Wimborne Church governor& who left money for that purpose, is an edifice of as trustees of the charity. Kingston Lacy, a mansion Purbeck stone in the Late Decorated style, from designs of stone, standing in a park of 420 acres, is the resi­ by Mr. C. E. Ponting, architect, of Marlborough, and dence of Mrs. Bankes. The Bankes settled estates are consists of chancel, transept, nave, south porch and a lords ()f the manor and chief landowners. High Hall, western tower containing one bell : the transept is used the seat of the Rev. Canon E. R. Bernard M.A. dates -as a vestrv and organ chamber: a new reredos, the gift from the end of the 17fih century and stands in a well­ of Mrs. Bankes, was erected in 19II: there are five timbered park. The area is 5,676 acres of land and 37 memorial windows, the east window being given by the A water; rateable value, £5,682; the population in 19II children of Mr. Bankes, and the smaller ones respectively was 747·