Pigot & Co.’s – Dorchester 1830
Transcribed for the OPC Project by Valerie Robbins
A village and parish, in the hundred of its name is about 16 miles from Poole and 10 from Wimborne; pleasantly situated in a healthy, sporting country; the houses most irregularly built, and the place remarkable for northing but its parish church, which was once the church belonging to the monastery, founded about the year 980: it is the oldest church in the county, as well as one of the largest; the living is a vicarage, in the gift of the Marquis of Salisbury; the present incumbent is the Rev Henry Doon. The town is surrounded by a chase, containing six lodges, which has been so by prescription for time immemorial. Cranborne is a very ancient place, and was of treat note in the Saxon and Roman times. On the Castle-hill, a little south of the town, is a circular fortification, in the area of which is a well – the whole supposed to be of Roman origin. The government of the town is vested in a constable and four tything-men, elected at the court leet by a jury of twelve of the townsmen. The Marquis of Salisbury is lord of the manor. This nobleman has a beautiful seat, ‘Court house,’ in this neighbourhood. The other seats of note in the vicinity are, the Earl of Shaftesbury’s, at Wimborne St. Giles; ‘Boveridge,’ Richard Brunter Esq. & c. Fairs, August 24 for pleasure & Dec. 6 for pigs and cheese. Cranborne parish contained, by the last returns, 1,823 inhabitants.
POST OFFICE, Mary Harvey, Post Mistress. – Letters from all parts arrive from WOODYEAT’S INN (about five miles distant) every morning at eight, and are dispatched every afternoon at half-past four.PUBLIC OFFICERS
NOBILITY, GENTRY, CLERGY & PROFESSIONAL PERSONS
| Ashley the Hon. Lord | Wimborne St. Giles |
| Brunter Richard Esq. | Boveridge |
| Doon Rev. Henry | Vicarage |
| Gee Wm G. Esq. | Wimborne St. Giles |
| Moor Rev. Robert | Edmondisham |
| Pink Francis, Gent | Cranborne |
| Robins Rev S. | Edmondisham |
| Salisbury the Most Noble the Marquis of | Court House |
| Shaftesbury the Right Hon the Earl | Wimborne St. Giles |
| Sims William surgeon | Cranborne |
| Smart Robert. Surgeon | Cranborne |
PUBLIC HOUSES
| Cross Keys | Jane Adams |
| Fleur de Lis | Thomas Lovatt |
| Sheaf of Arrows | Thomas Davis |
SHOPKEEPERS AND TRADERS
| Adams Harry | Tailor |
| Adams Joseph | Baker and shoemaker |
| Adams Thomas | Tailor |
| Adams William | Tailor |
| Bailey Matthew | Baker and grocer |
| Bailey William | Hair dresser |
| Biles William | Blacksmith |
| Bruiton Thomas | Tailor |
| Butt William | Saddler |
| Clark Jonathan | Baker |
| Clark Thomas | Shoemaker |
| Clark William | Baker and draper |
| Coney George | Bricklayer |
| Coney George junior | Bricklayer |
| Cross Jane | Shoemaker |
| Davis Thomas | Saddler |
| Ellis Michael | Decorative painter |
| Feltham Mary | Milliner & c |
| Gannoway Thomas | Shoemaker |
| Grist Edward | Carpenter |
| Harvey Elizabeth | Straw hat maker |
| Jones David | Painter, plumber & c |
| Jones Samuel | Painter, plumber & c |
| Maidment John | Carpenter and grocer |
| Perratt Esther | Baker |
| Pigley Richard | Draper |
| Pothecary Matthew | Maltster |
| Stamford James | Grocer |
| Thomas Josiah | Carpenter and auctioneer |
| Ware George, | Ironmonger and blacksmith |
COACHES
To LONDON, EXETER &c. pass Woodyeat’s Inn, five miles distant daily.CARRIER
To SALISBURY, Thomas Street, once a week