[DORSET.] COR5COMBE. 788 [POST OFFICE, ofUniversity College,Oxford. Here is a Free school,endowed Adye-, esq. The soil is sand and claY', subsoil; clay. The by Richard Loekyer, eSIJ., in 1662', for the gratuitous chiefcrops are wheat, barley·and turnip!l\ The- area is 3,080., education of 30 children: the other children of' the parish acres; gross estimated rental, £3,225 9s.; rateable value, are admitted at a small fee; Here are Baptist and Wes­ £2,851 lIs.; the population in 1871 ,,8.9 722. leyanchapels. Phellips' Charityof £90 yearly is the produce EAST END and LAMB'S GREEN are 1 mile north-east. of.8 bequest, and is divided into three parts, viz :-first UPTON is a hamlet on tbe shore ofHoles bay,in tbeparisbes part, expended in bread and cheese, and distributed to the of Canford Magna, and Corfe Mullen; the land is' owned poor on tbe steps of the old croS!! in tbe churchyard every by Sir Ivor B. Uuest, baft. 8unday morning; second part, for the apprenticing and Parish Clerk, Emanuel CoX'. clothing poor children of the pllrish; the third part is pre" sented to the incumbent of the parish. Churchill's Cbarity of £16 is distributed in coals on tbe 5th December, the POST OFFICE.-Mrg. Jane Allen, receiver. Letters arrive- fOllnder's birth day. The Knoll is the seat of Thomas by foot post from Wimborne at 7.30 8.m.; dispatched at Canning, esq. The manorial ri~hts are held hy the trustees 7.15 V.m. The nearest money order office is at Wimbome. of the late St. John Coventry, esq., and Willett Lawrence Free- SchOOl, Miss Sarah Keats, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Baverstock William, farmer Hembury Henry, farmer Canning Thomas, The Knoll Bessant Frederick, farmer, Knoll farm. Pond Henry, contractor Plumpue Rev. Robert William", M.A. ~andy WaIter, dairyman Raymond John, farmer & miller [vicar] Cherrett Elizabeth (Mrs.),beer retailer Rolles Joseph, higgler & farmer Stickland James Elm Corbon WiIliam, horse dealer & farmer Saunders Samuel, blacksmith Whitling Henry John, Denmark villa Eldon Charles, dairyman White James, farmer, Hill farm COMMERCIAL. Foot Richard, shopkeeper Wigmore Thomas, farmer Barnes Henry, builder Groves Henry, Coventry's Arms WoodfordJames, shopkeeper , ... ... CORSCOMBE (with the hamlets of BE~VILLE and are held here in the year, on the 18th of May and the 7th of TOl..LER WHELME) is a large parish, in the petty sessional September. George Bullock, esq., is lord of the manor, and division and county court district of Bridport, hundred and owns a large portion of the parish. The other land­ union of Beaminster, diocese of Salisbury, archdeaconry of ownerll are Thomas Bishop. esq., the Earl of Sandwich.. Dorset, and rural deanery of Bridport, 3 milt'S nortb-east and William Pope, esq. The suil varies, and the land from Heaminster, and 8 south-west from Yeovil. The is principally dairy land. The area is 5,003 acres; grOll8' church of St. Mary, anandentstructure, was, together with estimated rental £6.048; rateable value, £5,184; th&l the tower, rebuilt in the fifteenth century; it was again population in 1871 was 755. rebuilt and refitted in 1746 in barbarous taste, with the BENVILLE is one mile and a half south-east; Pinnys~ exception of the north porch, a very interesting feature, 01' ToIler Whelme, 2~ miles south. which was happily left intact. The church is now about to Parish Clerk, Phillip Diment. be restored and enlarged; it has a good peal of bells. The register dates from the year 1595; part is not legible. Tbe POST OFFICE.-Philip Diment, receiver. Letters froIll' living is a rectory, yearlyvalue £590, with 62 acres of glebe Dorchester, tbrough Cattistock, arrive at 9.30 a.m.; dis· land and residence, in tbe gift of the Rev. WiIliam Locock, patched at 4.35 p.m. The nearest money order office i~ and C. J. T. Burt, esq., and held by the Rev. William Locock, at Beaminster B.A., of Caius College, Cambridge. There is a National INSURANCE AGENTS;- scbool under Government inspection, towhich a henefaction Liverpool ~ London ~ :Globe, J.Pine of £10 per annum, the ~ift of the late Dr. Troyte, is at Union, G. Cox present paid. Bricks and tiles are made bere. Two fairs National School, Mrs. Sarah Pine,mistress Legg Henry; butcher & dealer Oorscombe. Macey Barnard, farmer, Catsley farm Benville. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Marks John,. blacksmith & shopkeeper Hanne l\'liss Baker Henry Meech Jonatban (Mrs.), farmer COMMERCIAL. Daw Christopher Meech Matthew, manager forMr.G.Cox COX Edmund, farmer Bann Mrs Meech Thomas, beer retailer Cox Richard, farmer Hyatt Rev. George R. B.A. [curate] MilVl,'rton Prudence (Mrs.), farmer Dunford Richard, farmer Locock Rev. William, B.A. [rector] Mintern John. blacksmith Fudge Eliasj tailor • COMMERCIAL. Peach Solomon, farmer Holloway William,farmer,Benvill Park Bag~ John Legg, miller Pine J onathan, relieving & vaccination farm Bartlett J esse,saddler & harness maker officer & registrar Mabour Henry, dairyman Cannon Henry, dairyman Salisbury George,farmer,Norwood farm Reyland Robert, shopkeeper. Case Israel, carpenter & wheelwright SalisburyHenry,farmer, Merrylandfrm Russell Henry, Bakera' ANM Cockram James, shopkeeper & butcher Saunders Matthew, farmer . Rutley Edward, farmer Cox George, brick & tile maker Suaydon William, farmer Strong Charles, butcher & farmer Dunning WiIliam, farmer, DrIes!! farm Stoodley George, farmer, Weston farm Tucker Joseph, farmer Gibbons Stephen, farmer, Knappfarm Bymes WilIiam, New inn Griffin Thomas, farmer Ward David, dairyman Toller Whelme~ Hawkins WiIliam, shoe maker Watts Nathaniel,dairyman, Weston Gillingham Henry, farmer Hopkins Maria(Mrs.), grocer & draper Wellman Hezekiah, George inn Pope William, land owner & farmer , . • .. ; CRANBORNE is a town and extensive parish, com~ chapelries of Boveridge and Verwood annexed, joint yearly, prising the town and nine small hamlets, in the petty ses- value £151, with residence, in the patrona~eof the Marquis Ilional divisionofWimborne,hundred6fitsname, Wimborne of Salisbury, and held by the Rev. Herbert Goodenough union and county court district, diocese of Salisbury, arch- Rogers, M.A" Trinity College, Oxford. This parish, which deaconry of Dorset, and rural deanery of Pimperne, OR the is the largest in the county, extending as it does from north borders of Wiltshire and Hampshire: the town is 3~ miles to seuth nearly 13 miles, includes Monkton-up~Wimborne, north from Verwood station on tbe London and South Verwood, ALDERHOLT, BOVERIDGE, Daggons; Crendell, Western railway, :10 north-west from Rin~ood, 106 from Cripplestyle. HOLWELL, and Blagdon, mOl:lt of them scab­ London, and 10 north from Wiml>orne. The chase formerly tered, and although styled hamlets, having- no distinctive belonging to the manor was disfranchised in 1830: the character to entitle them to such an appellation. ALDER­ houses are built without uniformity: the river Crane flows HOLT, DAGGONS, CRENDELL, and CRIPPLESTYLE; in: through the parish. The churchof St. Bartholomew (once the east ofthe paTish, were formed in 1849 into a. district for" attached to a monastery, founded about the year 980) is one ecclesiastical purposes, and a church (St. Jamos) wMerected of the oldest, 8S well a8 one of the larg'est, in the county: by the Marquis -of Salisbury, and endowed by the Marquis it contains a nave, aisles, chancel (now bein!l' rebuilt by the and the EcclesiasticalCommissioners, theformer contributing Marquisof Salisbury), a Norman doorway, also largesquare .£25 per annum~ and the latter, until recently,£55, but now tower containing 6 bells: it has been repaired and re~seated £75 per annum. The living is a vicarage~ yearly value with open benches, at an expense of upwards of £700, £100, in the gift of the 'vicaJl of Cranborne, and held by raised by a. loan on the security of the rares aDd by sub.. the Rev. John Rigg.. There are. two fairs hellI aonually­ Bcription: a.clock was placed in the tower, at an exp.Slnlle of one on the 24th of AUg'ust, for pleasure; the other on the .£150, raised by subscription of the inhabitants. Th; regis.. 6th of Decembl'r, for the sale of pigs and cheese. Here is ter comm-ences,in 160Z. Tbeliving is a vieazog'e, witb the 81 National school fOll boys and girls... A school haa been \ •.