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BURLESTON. DORSETSHIRE. [KELLY's £135, with residence, in the gift of Alfred C. de Letters from Dorchester, through Puddletown, arrive at Lefontaine esq. and held since 1881 by the Rev. John 6.30 a.m. & 2.30 p.m. The nearest money order & Woolley, of St. Bees. On the downs are many Roman telegraph office is at Puddletown, Ij: miles distant barrows. George Wood Homer esq. who is lord of the manor, and Major John H. Michel are the landowners. Wall Letter Box at Athelhampton, cleared at 6.25 pm. The soil is light loam; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops week days & 10·4° a.m. sundays are barley and roots. The area is 366 acres; rateable The children of this place attend the sehools at Puddle- value, £333 ; population in 19II, 64. town & Tolpuddle coMMimCIAL. , IHomer George Chartres W ood,farmer Woolley Rev. John (rector), Rectory IBowditch John, dairyman Parsons Frederick, butcher :BURSTOCK (with the hamlet of Hursey) is a parish Salisbury, and held since 1912 by the Rev. Ho:race and village, 5 miles south from station on Morley Brown B.A. of London University, the London and South Western railway, 4 north-west Bma!laimlsqr since 189S .. The principal landowners are from and 8 north-west from , in the Uapt. John A. Bragge, of Sadborow, Thorncombe, who Western division of the county, hundred of Whitchurch, ;s lord of the manor, and the Rev. H. P. Marriott­ Bridport petty sessional division and county court dis- Dodington B.A. The soil is light, with sandy subsoil trict, Beaminster union, rural deanery of Bridport (Bea- The chief crops are wheat and barley, but the land is minster portion), archdeaconry of and diocese of chiefly used for dairy purposes and sheep breeding Salisbury. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient The area is 931 acres; rateable value, £I,55I; in 1911. building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of the population was 123. chancel, nave, a small chapel on the north side, south Sexton, Edmund Staple. porch, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, Hursey hamlet is half a mile east. containing a clock and two bells : there is a very curious . . old font: the church was altered and rebuilt in 1877, Letters from Beammster, Dorset, arrive at 8.45 . a,m. when the west gallery was taken down and & west The ne_arest moner or.der & telegraph office lS at window inserted: there are 120 sittings. The register .Broadwmdsor, I mlle distant dates from the year 1689. The living is a \Ticarage, Wall L~tter Box, cleared at 4·35 p.m. wee~ days OJI.ly annexed to Broadwindsor by Order in Council, October The children attend the school at Broadwmdsor 2oth, 1902, joint net yearly \Talue £490, with one acre Carrier to Crewkerne.-Mrs. Sarah Guppy, from Broad- of glebe and residence, in the gili of the Bishop of windsor, tues. & fri. & to Bridport, wed. & sat BURSTOCK. Frampton Harry, farmer, Burstock HURSEY. grange Garrett .Tames, farmer Curtis Wm. farmer, Whetham farm Leaves -Albert, frmr. Whetham mill Stevens Tom, farmer & dairymam Dunning Josepb, farmer Sherring boot repairer Studley John, farmer Fowler John, farmer, Manor farm White George, ~ Studley Samuel, farmer .,. "Ar.a." .,,~,...J~ Upshall Harry George, beer retailer BURTON BBADS!TOCK (formerly called "Bride- opened in 1879· Here is a flax mill. One of the ton") ia a parish, bounded on the south by the English reservoirs for supplying Bridport with water is in this Channel, on tbe river Bride, or Bredy, at the point parish. A. E. L. Fox-Pitt-Rivers esq. F.S.A., J.P. who where it flows into the sea, 2 miles east from West is lord of the manor, and Augustus Henry Hussey esq Bay (Bridport) station, and 3 miles south-east-by-south are the principal landowners. The soil is oolite and from Bridport, in the liberty of Frampton, Western clay; subsoil, yellow sandstone. The chief crops are division of the county, hundred of Godder Thorne, wheat, barley, oats and roots, and some land in pasture. Bridport union, petty sessional division and county court The area is 2,704 acres of land, ro of water and 46 of district, rural deanery of Bridport (Bridport portion), foreshore; rateable value, £3,443; population in 19II, archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The 522 in the civil and 819 in the ecclesiastical parish. church of St_. Mary is an anci_en~ building of stone in By Local Government Board Order No. 31,494, part. the Per.J?endiCular style, cons1stmg of chancel, nave, of Bur ton Bradstock was annexed to Bridport. £vuth a1sle, north porch, and an embattled central tower, containing a clock and 5 bells: the church was GRASTON is one mile east; COGDEN is one m1le thoroughly restored and reseated and the south aisle and a half east. entirely rebuilt in 1897, at a cost of £1,75o, under the t~~uperintendence of Mr. E. S. Prior, architect. The Parish Clerk, William Henry Smith. • clock, formerly belonging to Christ's Hospital, Newgate Post, M. 0. & 'f. Office.-Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Swaffield, $treet, London, was placed as a memorial to the late sub-postmistress. Letters received from Bridport at Queen Victoria in 1902. The register dates from the 7·5 a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; dispatched at 10.35 a.m. & year 1fu4. The living is a rectory, with the chapelry 5.15 p.m. on we':lk days; no sunday delivery or dls- of Shipton Gorge anne.xed, joint net income £300, with patch 40 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of A. E. L. County Police, Albert Hunt, constable Fox-Pitt-Rivers esq. and held since 1900 by the Rev. · for I6o chil- Frederick Thomas Harrison M.A. of Corpus Christi Elementary School (mixed), built in r86j, College, Cambndge.. There 1s. a W esleyan chapel, dren; Robert B. Howarth, master erected in 1825, with roo sittings. Broadmayne's charity Carriers to Bridport. John Partridge & William Henry of £2 is for apprenticing boys. The Reading Room was 1 Smith, mon. wed. fri. & sat PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Brown Thomas, tailor 'Hawkins Joseph, dairyman Cousins Mrs Buckley Joseph, aparts. Magnolia cot Hayward Ann Jarvis (Miss), shopkpr Harrison Rev. Frederick Thomas M.A. Churchouse Alfred John, Anchor Hutchings William, aparts. Vine ho (rector), The Rectory hotel; good accommodation; agent Inkpen Samuel, farmer, Cogden Harrison Rev. Lionel Gordon B.A. for Devenish's celebrated ales & Kerley Fredk. Jn, Chas. blacksmith (curate), The Rectory stout LenthallHy.frmr.&dairymn.Manor fm Mackilligan William G. White house Churchouse John, farmer j Lockett Elizabeth (Miss), apa.rtmnts Mercer Mrs. The Mount Churchouse Richd. Wm. apartments, I Hill view Morris William Cholmeley, Red cot assistant overseer & clerk to the Moore Charles, fish dealer Morris Wm. Kiddle, Mundania house Parish Council 'National Deposit Friendly Society (R. Pittard Miss Francis Herbert, farmer, Bredy farm B. Howarth, sec) Roberts Miss, The Grove (postal address, Shipton Gorge, Partridge John, carrier Ryal Capt. William Pharye, Cliff villa Bridport) 1 Perren Cornelius, apartments Sturdy Edward T. Norburton Gale George, farmer, Northill farm Perrott John, farmer, Pitfold Warren C. Leonard, The Rookery Gale Richard, cowkeeper & income Reading Room (Waiter Ouseley, sec) Yencken Reginald F:redk. Darby house tax collector Rendall & Coombs, flax, hemp & tow Gale William, butcher spinners COMMERCIAL. Gillingham Richard Moses, relieving Rendall Joseph, miller (water) & Ackerman Edward, aparts. Ivy cot & vaccination -officer & registrar of baker, Grove mill Baggs Sarah J ane (Mrs.), shopkeeper births & deaths for the Burton Samways James,Three HorseshoesP.H Bartlett & Sons (late Henry Bartlett), Bradstock sub-district of the Brid- Smith William Henry, coal dealer, builders & contractors, sanitary en­ port union, The Magnolias parish clerk & ca-rrier gineers & contractors for general Gillingham R. M. (Mrs.), deputy Step hens Fanny {Mrs. ),aparts.Cliff \Til house repairs ; & at Shipton Gorge registrar of births & deaths for the Swaffi.eld Mary Elizabeth (Mrs.) ... Ba.rtlett Frederick John, beer retailer Burton Bradstock sub-district, The shopkeeper & sub-postmistress Bromfi.eld William, dairyman Magnolias Vine Jn. Richd. farmr. Shad.rach farm BURTON. LONG, see L1ngburton.