Corfe Mullen

EXTRACT FROM KELLY'S DIRECTORY 1889

Corfe Mullen – is a parish situated on the river Stour, 2 miles south-west from Wimborne, about 3 miles south-east from Sturminster Marshall station, 2 and a half miles from Poole Junction station on the Somerset and Dorset (Midland and South Western junction) railway, 117 from London, 8 south-east from Blandford and 6 north-west from Poole, in the Eastern division of the county, Cogdean hundred, petty sessional division and county court district of Wimborne, Wimborne and Cranbourne union, Whitchurch rural deanery (Poole portion), Dorset archdeaconry and Salisbury diocese.

A loop line in connection with the Somerset and Dorset railway from New Poole Junction to Bailey Gate station for Sturminster Marshall was opened in 1885. The church of St. Hubert is very ancient, and was repaired about 1850, and again in 1865; it is a low building of red stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south transept, south porch of brick and a square tower containing 4 bells; there are 347 sittings. The register dates from the year 1652. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £410, net £229, with 2 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Eton College, and held since 1858 by the Rev, Robert William Plumptre M.A. of University College, Oxford. Here are Baptist, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Phellipps’ charity of £80 yearly is derived from land in Somerset, divised in 1662 by Thomas Phellipps, and is divided into three parts viz.:- first part, expended in bread and cheese, and distributed to the poor on the steps of the old cross in the churchyard every Sunday morning; second part, for the apprenticing and clothing poor children of the parish; the third part is presented to the incumbent of the parish./ Churchill’s charity of £16, derived from Consols left in 1835 by William Churchill, is distributed in coals on the 3rd December, the founder’s birthday.

The Knoll is occupied by Henry John Mills Esq. Glendon is the seat of Major-General Charles Powlett Lane D.L., J.P. The manorial rights are held by St. John Coventry Esq. of Hendon House. The principal landowner is Lord Wimborne. The soil is sand and clay; subsoil, clay. the chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 3,087 acres; rateable value, £2,872; the population in 1881 was 694.

East End and Lamb’s Green are 1 mile north-east. Upton is a hamlet on the shore of Holes Bay, in the parishes of Canford Magna and Corfe Mullen: the land is owned chiefly by Lord Wimborne. Parish Clerk, Emanuel Cox. Post Office – Mrs. Hariett Durrant, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive by foot post from Wimborne at 7a.m., dispatches at 7p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Wimborne. Wall Letter Boxes – Glendon cleared at 7.10p.m. and East end cleared at 7.10p.m.; Sundays 10.15a.m. National School, built in 1706 for 30 children, enlarged in 1823 & in 1860, will now hold 120; average attendance 120; partly endowed by Richard Lockyer Esq. in 1730, for gratuitous education of 30; the other children of the parish are admitted at a small fee; Edwin Thomas Weatherley, master; Miss. Beatrice Dennis, mistress, with residence.
 

PRIVATE RESIDENTS

Hardy Richard Upton
Lane Major-General Charles Powlett D.L., J.P Glendon
Mills Henry John The Knoll
Peel Lieut-Gen John Corfe Lodge
Plumptre Rev Rt Wm. M.A. Rectory
Schmidt Franz Upton
Urwick Thomas Augustus  

COMMERCIAL

Andrews Frederick Dairyman
Barnes Henry Builder
Budden Arthur Edwin Farmer, Court Farm
Budden Edmund Farmer
Budden Edward Farmer
Budden Thomas Farmer,
Cherrett Elizabeth (Mrs) Beer Retailer
Cherrett John Farmer
Cottingham John Farmer, Upton
Ensor John Thomas Farmer Knoll Farm
Foot Richard Shopkeeper
Groves Hy. Stevens Coventry’s Arms
Himbury Henry Farmer East End
Knight William Farmer
Osbaldstone Henry Dairyman
Pond Henry Contractor
Raymond John Miller (water)
Rose Henry Carpenter
Saunders Samuel Farmer
Wigmore Thomas Farmer
Woodford James Grocer
Wyatt Robert Timber dealers Upton


1895 Kelly's Directory

PRIVATE RESIDENTS

Barnes Henry  
George Charles A.D.  
Mills Henry John The Knoll
Lane Major-#General Charles Powlett D.L., J.P. Glendon
Moon James Corfe Lodge
Plumptre Rev. Rt. Wm. M.A. Rectory
Scott Mrs. Corfe Cottage
Winter Miss Corfe Cottage

COMMERCIAL

Andrews Frederick Farmer
Attwell Frederick Farmer
Ball Ann (Mrs) Laundress
Ballam Charles Brick Maker, Upton
Budden Arthur Edwin Farmer, Court Farm
Budden Thomas Farmer, Knoll Farm
Chaffey James Haggler
Cherrett Elizabeth (Mrs) Beer Retailer
Cherrett John Farmer
Cherrett Leonard, Cow keeper
Cottingham John Farmer, Upton
Dew Hedley, Coventry Arms P.H. & Farmer
Foot Henry Shopkeeper
Fry Frank Brick Maker
Himbury Kezia (Mrs) Farmer East End
Kettle James Market Gardener
Knight Hubert Farmer
Knight William Farmer
Long Samuel Carpenter
Pond Henry Contractor
Prosser Henry Gardener to H.J. Mills Esq.
Raymond John Miller (water) and Farmer, corn, cake & manure merchant, roller flour mills
Reading Room & Club (A.E. Budden sec)
Rogers Henry Brick Maker
Rose Henry Carpenter
White Christopher Carpenter
Wigmore Thomas Farmer
Woodford James Grocer
Wyatt Rt. & Son Timber dealers Upton

 


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