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Profeit G~orge W., J.P. land agent to CHARBOROUGH. Charborough Park Estate Office (Geo. W. Profeit, estate agent) Lady Dunsany, Charborough park Dunsany Lady, Charborough park Milne A. forester to Ladr Dunsany Tizzard Jas. heoad gardener tG Lady Bourne A.gamekpr. to Lady Dunsany Duns any MORE CRICHEL (or Moore Critchell) is a parish being used as a reading room ; meetings, concerts &c. and small village, .near the river Alien, 6 miles north-west are held in the hall. Crichel House, th9 aeat .,of Lord from Wimborne st~ttion on the Salisbury and Dorchester Alington K.C.V.O., D.L., J.P .. who is lord of the miutor line of the London and ,South-Western railway,and 6 !louth­ anJ sole landowner, is a beautiful mansion in the Classic west from Oranborne, in the Eastern division of the style, standing in a well-wooded park 'Of 400 acres, in county, hundred of Bradbury, petty sessional division and which is an ornamental lake of so acres. The soil is county court district of Wimborne, union of Wimborne medium loam ; subsoih chalk. The chief crops are and Cranborne, rural deanery of Pimperne (Wimborne wheat, barley and oats. The area is 1,967 acres of land portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. and 32 of \\ater; rateable value, £2,041; the population The church. of St. Mary, situated at the north-east Mrner in I90I was 362. {If Crichel House, is of stone in the Italian style, and was entirely rebuilt in rBso by the late H. C. Sturt esq. at a MANSWOOD is a hamlet, formerly in this parish and cost of upwards of £Io,ooo: it consists of chancel, nave partly in Gussage St. Michael, but transferred wholly to .and transepts, the north transept being occupied by Lord this parish by Local Government iloard Ordel" x~.oB-t; Alington's household; adjoining the vestry is the family dated March 25, 1886. vault of the Sturt family: there are some ancient tombs, Post Office, Manswood.-Harry Holloway, sub-post- one of which, on the north side of the chancel, is to master. Letters through Wimborne, arrive at 8.40 William Cyfrewast, d. May 26, I58I, and another to his a. m.; dispatched at 6.5 p.m.; Sundays, s.rs p.m. daughter Dorothy, d. Oct. I, I599: ther~ is also a fine Witchampton, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money brass, removed from the old church, some modern brasses, order & telegraph office stained windows, a brass choir screen, Caen stone pulpit, Wall Letter Boxes. Park road, cleared at 6.20 p.m.; and a reredos of carved and gilded mahogany: the church sundays, 5.20 p.m. & opposite School, cleared at 6.15 was decorated and furnished by Lord Alington at a cost p.m.; sundays, 5-I5 p.m .uf £2,ooo, and affords 200 sittings. The register dates Elementary School (mixed), rebuilt in I8g2, wit·h resi- from the year I664. The living is a rectory, annexed to dence for mistress, for no children; average attend- that of Long Crichel, joint net yearly value £348, with ance, 7I; Miss Eleanor G. M. Butcher, mistress; residence, in the gift of Lord Alington, and held since 1906 by the Rev. Emlyn Hugh James B.A. of St. David's Miss Jessie Bailey, assistant mistress ~ College, Lampeter, who resides at Long Crichel. The Carriers. John Carter & William Kimber, to & from Club room adjoins the school, and will hold about 400 Wimborne, tues. & fri.; to & from Blandford, thurs. persons; it contains a platform and gallery, the lattPr & sat Alington Lord K.C.V.O., D.L., J.P. Angell Henry 0. estate cle-rk to lord Greenwood Geo. shopkpr. :Manswood Crichel house; & 38 Portman sq. Alington Griffiths John, gamekeeper to Lord W & Carlton & St. Stephen's clubs Bridle Henry, head gardener to Lord Alington SW, London Alington Hill Charles Boyce, agent for Lord Hill Charles Boyce, Falconer's cottage Carter John, carrier Alington 1 Macgowan Capt. Robert Stuart, Crichel Cnn);ervative & Constitutional Ings J. W. woodman to Lord Alington Manswood Club (By. 0. Angell, hon. sec) RobeTtson Frederick (Mrs.), fariQer COMMERCLI.L. Drew Ern est William, farmer Sims John, beer l'etailer & farmer .Aling-ton Estate· Office (Charles Boyce Duke Sarah (Miss), shopkeeper Wool Vincent, farm bailiff to Lord Hill, agent) • Friend Robert, farmer Alington • :MORE TON is a parish on the river Frome, with a ground near the river Frome; it contains a fine library, station I! miles from the village, on the Bournemouth an extensive collection of old china and many valuable and Weymouth line of the London and South ·western oil paintings by Holbein, Domenichino, Tempesta and railway. I3o! miles from London, about 7 east-by-south Reynolds; the mantel-pieces are of marble, beautifully from Dorchester, and 9 west from Wareham, in the ca1·ved by an Italian sculptor; there are extensive Southern division of the county, hundred of Winfrith, flower gardens and a richly wooded park extending over Wareham petty sessional division and county court dis- 100 acres. An obelisk, erected in the park in 1785 by trict, Wareham and Purbeck union, rural deanery of Capt. John Houlton as a memorial to James Frampt{)n Dorchester (Dorchester portion), archdeaconry of Dorset e>q. was subsequently removed to the summit of a and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. Nicholas, neighbouring hill; the stone urn on the to-p is four situated in the park, and rebuilt in 1777 by James Framp· tons in weight. Mrs. Fetherstonhaugh-Frampton is ion esq. is a handsome edifice of stone, in the Gothic style, lady of the manor and sole landowner. The S{)il is and consists of apsidal chancel, nave, aisles, west porch sandy gravel; subsoil, gravel and red sand. The chief and a south tower with four pinnacles containing a clock crops are wheat, and there is good pasture land in the and 2 bells: there are eight stained windows, several neighbourhood. The area is 2,134 acres of land ~nd 23 carved marble tablets and an ancient brass to the Framp- of water; rateable value, £2,379; the population in ton family, who have been buriPd here since the Reforma- I90I was 356. t:on : in the churchyard is buried Prince Clarence, second HURST is I mile north-west ; BROOME HILL, 1 son of the late king of the Mosquito territory, Central mile south-east, on the river Frome, over which there America, who came to this country for the purpose ol is a bridge of two arches. Here are Knowle, Tadnoll being educated: there are 200 sittings. The register and other barrows. dates from the year I741. The livin~ is a rectory, net · yearly value £I Bo, with 42 acres of glebe and residence, Post, M. 0. & T. Office. Geot·ge Purchase, S).lQ-post- in the gift of Mrs. Framptoon, and held sincil 1902 by the master. Letters arrive through Dorchester at 6.10 Rev. Maurice Howard Marsden M . .A. of St. John's College, a.m. & I p.m. ; dispatched at I2 noon & 6.35 p.m. Cambridge. There is a charity of about £I46 yearly, daily; sundays, 6.35 p.m ' arising from land left in I687 by Wm. Frampton esq. and Wall Letter Box, Railway Station, cleared lit- ~2·35 & .Pxpended in apprenticing poor children belonging to the 5-45 p.m. week days & 9 a.m. sundays ' • parishes of Moretan, Affpuddle and Tonerspuddle; another There is a telegraph office at the Railway sta.tiori, with charity, left in 1 g13 by the Rev. Roger Coker, for the delivery on station premises on1y, which is-- closed on P.ducation of poor children, .amounts to £5 a year, arising sundays , ' from £140 stock in the 2! per Cent. Reduced Bank Elementary School (mixed), built about I8GQ, for 120 .Annuities, and has been administered since I905 under children; average attendance, So; .Alfred Connop, a scheme of the Board of Education. Moreton House, master . the residence of Caleb Bruce Cole esq. is a commodious Carrier. Coleman, passes through to Dorchester, wed. inamion of Portland stone, built by James Frampton & sat .. t. esq. in I744• and very pleasantly seated on rising ' Railway Station, Alfred Gibson, station master PRIVATE RESIDENT. South Henry Ersldn, Manor house Horne George H. farmer Cole Cabeb Bruce, Moreton house Joy Henry, carpenter Fetherstonhaugh-Frampton Harry COMMERCIAL. Lock William, far1ner, Hurts farm Rupert J .P. Nt.>w house Budden Thos. farmer, Waddock farm Moreton Sand & Gravel Co · · ' Lea Hermann, Var Trees Gillett Charles, dairyman Nineham Robert, farmer, Manor farm Marsden Re>v. Maurice Howard M.A. Gillett Henry, blacksmith Outram George, coal dlr. k farmer (rector), Rectory Godwin Benj. steward to Harry R Purchase Geo. The Stores, Post office Pimm Samuel, Pine Crest Fetherstonhaugh-Frampton esq. J.P Robinson Wm. Frampton Arms hotel