214 TRENT. DORSETSHIRE. (KELLY'S

• Kendall .Arthur James. farmer, Adb~ PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COJIOIBRCIA.L. • • & Rowbarrow Adams Mrs. Abels lane Andrews Richard, farmer, Hummer Lamb Sarah Ann (Miss), shopkeeper. Down Hubert John Barter Waiter, blacksmith & post office Drummond• Maj.-Gen. Laurence Geo. Bartlett John, boot maker March Brothers, farmers C.B., M.V.O. Manor house Brine Arthur, carpenter Norman Benjamin, farmer,Glebe frm Hichens Mrs. Flamberts Brooks Charles, farmer Read Edward (Mrs.), farmer, Adber Mildmay Miss M. St. John, Orchard Caseley Harry, farmer, Adber Spurdle Frederick, farmer, Adber corner Cheeseman William, farmer Spurr Arthur Edmondson, farmer, Roe Rev. Wilfred Thomas M.A. (rec­ Down Hubert John, farmer,Home frm Church farm tor), The Rectory Garrett George (Mrs.), farmer Warren Henry Nathaniel, farmer, Venton Roland 0 Rig-gins George, cowkeeper Hummer Wiscombe Thos. Rose & Crown P.H

TURNWORTH is a parish, 3 miles south from Worcester College, Oxford, who is also rector of and station, on the Midland and South resides at . Turnworth House, Western Joint railway, and 6 miles west from Bland­ the seat of Lieut.-Col. Uvedale Edward P. Parry-Okeden ford, in the Northern division of the county, Blandford J.P. lord of the manor and sole landowner, is a hand­ petty sessional division, union and county court dis­ some and commodious Jacobean mansion, pleasantly trict, forming; with the parishes of and situated in a valley and surrounded by scenery of a most Shillingstone, a detached portion of that part of the picturesque description. The soil is light; subsoil, hundred of Cranborne which is in the West Shaston chalk. The crops are wheat, barley and oats, and there petty sessional division, being locally in the hundred of is excellent pasture land in the neighbourhood. The , rural deanery of Whitchurch (Milton por­ area is 1,176 acres; rateable value, £738 ; the population tion), archdeaconry of D'?rset and diocese of Salisbury. in I9II was 128 in the civil and 136 in the ecclesiastical The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a small edifice of parish. .stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, THORNICOMBE, a hamlet, 6 miles south-west, was nave of three bays, north aisle, and a western tower by Local Government Board Order transferred in 1887 to containing 3 bells: it was originally built in the 13th Blandford St. Mary from this parish for civil purposes. -century, and with the exception of the tower was rebuilt Parish Clerk, William Wills in 186g, in memory of William Parry-Okeden esq-. : Post & T. Office.-Mrs. Louisa Bolt, sub-postmistress. there are two stained windows, and some memorial Letters through Blandford arrive at 8.30 a.m. &i 3 "tablets to the Okeden and Twinyhoe families: the church p.m.; dispatched at 4·45 &i 5 p.m. ; sundays at II affords 140 sittings. The register dates from the year a.m. ; telegraph office closed on sundays. Okeford 1573, and there is a list of vicars and rectors from the Fitzpaine, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order 14th century to this date. The living is a rectory, net office yearly value £n9, with residence and 22 acres of glebe, Elementary School (mixed), built in 186g, with clock, &i in the gift of the Bishop of Salisbury, and held since house for mistress, for 45 children; Mrs. Withers, 1907 by the Rev. George Fielding Matthews M.A. ·of I mistress • PBIVA.TB RESIDENTS. CQMMERCIA.L. Tory James George, farmer l"orbes Donald, The Rectory Bolt Louisa (Mrs.), shopkpr. Post off Wheeler William, farm bailiff to Lt.­ Parry-Okeden Lt.-Col. Uvedale Edwd. Dove Thomas, gardener to Lieutr.­ Col. U. E. P. Parry-Okeden J.P Parry J.P. Turnworth house Col. U. E. P. Parry-Okeden J.P Wills William, farm bailiff to Mr. T-ory Mrs. J. E Gawler Harry, carpenter James George Tory

TYNEHAM is a parish, in the Isle of Purbeck, mostly built in 1583, but considerable alterations and bounded on the south by the English Channel, nearly 6 additions were made by the late Rev. William Bond in miles west-by-south from Corfe Castle, on the Swanage 1820; the east front has a porch and three gab~d, and branch of the London and South Western railway and a new entrance in a similar style has been made on the 7 south-by-west from Wareham, in the Eastern division north side. There is no manor.· The principal land­ of the county, hundred of Hasilor, Wareham petty owners are John Wentworth Garneys Bond esq. D.L., 11essional division and county court district, Wareham J.P. William H. Bond esq. J.P. Reginald Joseph Weld 1111d Purbeck union, rural deanery of Dorchester (Pur­ esq. and H. H. House esq. The soil is very various, beck portion), archdeaconry of and diocese of but principally clay; subsoil, principally chalk. The Salisbury. The church of St. Mary is a small cruciform chief crops are barley, wheat and oats; there is also -edifice of stone, in the Early English and Decorated some very good pasture land. The area is 2,966 acres styles, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, of land and I of water; rateable value, £x,366; popula­ west porch, and a central bell-cot containing 2 bells: tion in xgn, 209. the north transept was a chantry chapel, belonging to the manor house; the south transept is modern : there POVINGTON, one mile north, a hamlet, and formerly are three monuments of Caen stone, to the Rev. William a manor, was, soon after the Conquest, given by Robert Bond, formerly rector of Steeple with Tyneham, and Fitzgerald to th.e Abbey of Bee, in Normandy. On the canon of Bristol; to William Bond esq. metropolitan dissolution of alien priories by 2 Hen. V. ( 1416) it was police magistrate and recorder of Poole and Wareham, given by Henry VI. to Eton College, and afterwards and to the Rev. Henry Bond, vicar of South Petherton came by exchange to the Crown, and was given by and Thomas Bond esq. barrister at law: there is also an Edward VI. to the Duke of Somerset ; after his attainder ancient monument with eleven shields of arms to Henry Queen Elizabeth granted it to EdJward, Earl of Hertford, Williams, son of John Williams, of Herington, d. 1641: who sold the demesnes and copyholds to the tenants divine service was formerly performed in this parish and thus extinguished the manor. only once on each Sunday in the year, and on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and Christmas Day: in 1848 EGLISTON, anciently a manor .and hamlet, derives the Rev. William Bond, considering the increase of the its name from Eglin, its ancient owner; it now consists population, gave the sum of £1,700 to the governors of of two farms, lmown as North Egliston, three-quarters Queen Anne's Bounty upon trust to pay the dividends of a mile north-east and South Egliston, rf miles south­ half yearly to the rector of Tyneham, upon condition of east and a. portion of Tyneham farm. his performing two full services, with a sermon, every sunday and also on Good Friday and Christmas Day: WORBA.RROW is a hamlet, I mile south-west; BAJ.­ there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year TI~GTON is half a mile west; WHITEWAY adjoins 1654. The living is a rectory, with that of Steeple Povington, and was anciently parcel of that manor. annexed, joint net yearly value £260, with residence Parish Clerk, William Taylor. and 25 acres of glebe, 19 of which are in Tyneham, in Post & T. Office. Harrv Barnes, sub-postmaster. the gift of John Wentworth Garneys Bond esq. D.L., • J.P. and held since I9I4 by the Rev. Edward Clifford Letters throug-h Corfe Castle, arrive at 7·45 a.m. &i Hawkes M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 3.15 p.m.; dispatched at 10.45 a.m. & 6.35 p.m.; Various interesting antiquities have been found in this sundays, arrive at 8.35 a.m. & dispatched at 4 p.m. parish and several of the barrows, which are very Corfe Castle, 6 miles distant, is the nearest money numerous in this neighl:ourhood, have been opened, and order office found to contain human remains, pottery and circular ·wall Box, Worbarrow, cleared at 5.25 p.m.; sundays, pieces of jet, called "coal money." Tyneham House, ro. IS a.m · the residence of William Henry Bond esq. J.P. is a Elementary School, built in r856, for 6o children; Miss mansion of Purbeck ashlar, commenced in I567 and N. W ood•man, mistress

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