DIRECTORY.) DORSETSHIRE. POYNTINuTON. 169 ' ley. oats and some land in pasture. The area is 4,u5 NETTI.'EOOMBE and Castle Mill form a tithing, Il acres; rateable value, £5,127 ; the population of the miles south, in the parish and liberty of Powerstock,. civil parish in 190I, with the tithings, 631, and of eccle­ locally in the hundred of Eggardon. Here is a W es­ siastical parish, 664, including parl of Melplash. leyan chapel, built in 1838, and seating 8o persons_ There was formerly a castle here, the foundations of WYTHERSTONE is a tit.hing, I mile north-east of which can still be traced. The Tailway station is in Powerstock ; here is an extensive cutting on the Bridport this tithing. railway. There is no church, the living is a decayed Loscombe, a portion of this parish, now forms a part ot sinecure rectory, yearly value £62, in the gift of Hen. the ecclesiast.icaJ. parish of Melplash. F. Compton esq. of Minstead, Lyndhurst, Rants, and Sexton, William Gale. held since 1906 by the Rev. Alfred Charles Harvey • Earle, who is also rector of and resides at Mapperton. Post, M. 0. & T. Office. Ernest BenJamm Wyatt, sub- The inhabitants have church rights in Powerstock postmaster. Letters are received from Melplash,. parish. Dorset, at 7·45 a.m.; dispatched at 5 5 p.m.; no­ sunday delivery SOUTH POORTON is a tithing in that part of the Wall Letter Boxes: West Milton, cleared at 6 p.m. parish which [s in the hundred of Eggardon, I mile north. daily, sundays excepted; Nettlecombe, cleared at 5·35 p.m. & South Poorton, cleared at 4·35 p.m WEST MILTON is a hamlet, I mile west, in the parish and liberty..()£ Powerstock, but locally in the hundred of Elementary School _(mixed), built in 18'73, for I20 chil­ Eggardon, and on the Mangerton river. St. Mary Mag­ dren; average attendance, 8o ; William Hilling, master dalene's, a chapel of ease to Powerstock church, and Elementary School (infants), built in I849, on a site. erected in I873, is an edifice in the Early Engli.sh style, given by the late Mr. R. Shepherd• f-or 70 children;; consisting of chancel, nave, baptistery, and a small tower, average attendance, 30; Miss Ellen Attoe, mistress containing one bell : all the windows are stained. The County Police Station, Francis George Vatcher, con­ tower of the former church is still standing. Here is !!table, Nettlecombe also a W esleyan chapel, built in r89r, and seating 150 Carrier to Bridport, Richard Woodcock, wed. & sat persons. Railway Station, Henry Samuel James, station master POWERSTOCK. Wrixon Sam, farmer, King's farm Lucas Mrs. Well house Murray Miss J. D. The Homestead Wyatt John, farmer, Manor farm ~icholson Capt. Hugh Blomfield J.P_ Mappercombe manor Rickman Rev. Willia.m Francis M.A. WEST MILTON. COMMERCIAL. (vicar), Vicarage Beaton Mrs. Spickhatch house • Tadman Rev. Ernest James B.A. Crawford Mrs. Prospect place Bartlett Charles, carpenter, under­ (curate), Merriott cottage Crawford 'l'homas Waiter taker, wheelwright & •blacksmith COMMERCIAL. ~orthover William County Police Station (Francis Geo... Biles George, thatcher, Whetley Wrixon Miss Vatcher, constable) Crawford Charles, farmer, Mapper- Biles Herbert, thatcher & farmer COMMERCIAL. combe farm Chilcott Wm. miller (water), farmer Brown John, farmer, Lynch farm Gale Amelia (Miss), shopkeeper & landowner Chubb Louis farmr.LowerHouse farm Greening Henry, beer retailer Daniel, Kitson & Pim, SUI'geons (at- Crawford Ch~rles farmer Hallett Horace, dairyman tendance mon. _2 p.m. & fri. 3.30 Fone Randolph, dairyman Hansford Ellen (Miss), shopkeeper p.m.); & Beammster Garland William baker Legg William, thatcher Gale John Cousi~s, stone mason Knight John, hiimler Sampson William Waiter, farmer, Hansford Fredenck, butcher Marsh Thomas vV. fa.rmer Corfe farm Mappercombe Hansford Virtue_ (Miss),a~sis!.o':erseer Pitcher George, farmer, Church farm Score Richard, farmer & clerk to .PanshCouncil,Lmd1sfarne Pitcher Sarah Snow (Miss), apartmts House Gabnel B .. farmer, Whetley Read Henry, carrier Studley .A.rthur E. dairyman Woodcock Richard, carrier House ~ ~ons, bmlder~ & farmers Rowe Frederick Wm. Red Lion P.H Leaf Wdbam, blacksmith Stone John Roper wheelwright SOUTH POORTON. Marlow Mary C. (Mrs.), Three Horse Wyatt Frank farn;er Shoes P.H ' Bartlett Jas. C. farmer, Bottom farm Walberton William boot & shoe maker NETTLECOMBE. Gale Frederick, road contractor & shopkeeper ' Bi:ch Mi_ss. Glyde William P. dairyman Way Thirza (Miss), shopkeeper Br1dge William POXWELL (or P<lkeswell) ie a parish, on the road value £250, with 30! acres of ~lebe at Poxwell, in the­ from Weymouth to Wareham, 4 miles east from Upwey gift of Mrs. F. G. A. Lane, of Bloxworth, and held since Junction station on the Weymouth branch of the Great 1901 by the Rev. Robert Jocelyn Pickard-Cambridge Western railway, 6 north-east from Weymouth and 6 M.A. of Keble College, Oxford, who resides at Warm­ south-east from Dorchester, in the Southern division of well. On the downs is a circle of large stones. supposed the county, Winfrith ·hundred, petty sessional division to have been a Druidical temple. Mrs. F. G. A. Lane, of Dorchester, Weym{)uth union and county court dis­ of Bloxwort'h, near Wareham, is lady of the man<lr and trict, -rural deanery of Dorchester (Weymouth portion), sole landowner. The soil is variable, clayey, but not arehdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The heavy, and the arable medium with some light. The­ church of St. John the Evangelist, erected in I868 at chief cr.Qps are barley, oats, wheat and some land in the sole cost <Jf John Trenchard Trenchard esq. in place pasture. The area is 834 acres; r~teable value, £557 ;- of the earlier fabric, then removed, is a building of the population in 1901 was 82. · dressed st:me in the Early Englis<h style, consisting of Letters throu!!h Dorchester, by foot post, arrive abou• nave, short transepts, n~rth porc'h and a round western tower with spire, containing one bell: the interior <lf 8.30 a.m. The nearest money order &; telegraph office the base of the tower forms the baptistery: the east is at Warmwell, 1! miles distant and west windows are stained: there are 270 sittings. Elementary School (mixPd), built in I844· with residence The register dates from the year 1675. The living is a for mistress, & since enlarged, for 30 children; average­ rectory annexed to that of WaTmwell, joint net yearly attendance, 9; Mrs. Margaret Rowley, mistress Kent Arthur, fanner POYNTINGTON is a parish, 3 miles south-west from the Decorated style, with some remains of Norman work Milborne Port .station on the London and South Western and Perpendicular additions, and consists of apsidal chan­ railway and 8 north-east from Yeovil, in the Eastern cel, nave of three bays, south aisle, north porch and a division of the parliamentary county of Somerset, Hore­ tower at the north-west angle, with an octagonal turret,. thorne hundred, Sherborne petty sessional division, union and containing 3 bells. one of which is dated 1595: the and countv court district, rural deanery of Milborne tower and belfry were Testored ~n 1905-6: the muti­ Port, archdeacomy of Wells and diocese of Bath and lllted recumbent figure of a knight in armour, now Wells. The river Yeo rises here. placed under the nave arch nearPst the chancel, is con­ This parish was, as from March 31, 1896, transferred .iectured to represent Sir Nicholas de Cheney, who­ from the county of Somerset to that of DorsPt, in pur­ founded and built the south chapel and aisle in the early suance of Section 54 of the "Local Government Act, part of the qth century: in the aisle is ah~o a mural I888 '' (51 and 52 Vict. c. 41 ), and by "Local Govern­ monument of alabaster, with kneeling effigies of a knigh• ment Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. I2) in armour and lady: behind the lady is the fig-nre of a Act, 1895" (58 and r;o Vict. c. 91). Order made May dau~rhter ; below is an inscription t-o George Tilly esq_ 27• 1895, and numbered p. r,164. and Mary his wife, recording also the Prection of the monu­ The church of All Saints, erected in the 14th century and ment bv Sir Edward Parbam kt. who married F..Jizaheth. eituated on an eminence, is an ancient edifice of stone in daughter and heiress of George Tilly e.sq.; above are three .