Langton Herring

DIRECTORIES

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Description from the 1895 Kellys Directory

Langton Herring is a parish and small village on the Fleet, near the sea coast, 2½ miles southeast form Portisham station on the Abbotsbury branch of the Great Western Railway, and 5½ miles north west from Weymouth. In the Western division of the county, hundred of Uggescombe. Weymouth union and county court district Dorchester petty sessional division, rural deaconry of Bridport [Abbotsbury portion], archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St Peter is a small ancient Gothic building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and low square embattled western tower, containing 2 bells: there are two stained glass windows there are 180 sittings. The register dates from the year 1682. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent charge £65, gross income £106, net £65, including 33 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of William Sparks esq. and held since 1860 by the Rev. Clement Hammond Gosset M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in fishing. Langton Herring Manor House is the residence of William Sparks esq. D.L., J.P., M.S.A. lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is light clay; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops are wheat and some land in pasture. The area is 1202 acres of land and 300 of water and foreshore; rateable value £980; the population in 1891 was 207.

Parish Clerk, Henry Carter

Post Office Thomas Henry Whittle sub-postmaster

Letters received at 8.45 a.m.; dispatched at 4.30 p.m. through Weymouth. The nearest money order office is at West Chickerell & telegraph office is at Portisham station for delivery & Abbotsbury for dispatch of telegrams.

Coastguard Station. Thomas Bradley, chief boatman.

National School [mixed], built in 1856, for 75 children; average attendance, 31.

Pigot's Directory of Dorset 1844 

(extracted from listing of Weymouth & Melcombe Regis and kindly donated to the OPC Project by Debby Rose)

Post Office Directory of  Dorsetshire 1855

Post Office Directory of  Dorsetshire 1859

National School, Miss Elizabeth Ann Attwooll, Mistress

Post Office Directory of  Hampshire, Wiltshire & Dorsetshire 1875

Parish Clerk Abel Hounsell

Coastguard Station, Robert Marson, Officer

National School, Miss Selina Surridge, Mistress

Kellys Directory of  Dorsetshire 1889

Parish Clerk, Henry Carter

Post Office Thomas Henry Whittle

Coastguard Station, James Bartlett Chief Boatman

National School, Miss Ila Pawsey, Mistress

Kellys Directory of  Dorsetshire 1895

Parish Clerk, Henry Carter

Post Office Thomas Henry Whittle Sub-postmaster

Coastguard Station, Thomas Bradley, Chief Boatman

National School

Kelly Directory of  Dorsetshire 1911

Coastguard Station, Wiliam Ranson, Chief Officer

Elementary School, Mrs Hester Wederell, Mistress

Carrier Thomas J Mowlam

Rector Rev. William Owen Cockcraft B.A.

Kellys Directory of  Dorsetshire 1915

Post & Telegraph Office, Thomas Henry Whittle

Coastguard Station,             Chief Officer

Elementary School, Mrs Hester Wederell, Mistress

Carrier Thomas J Mowlam

Rector Rev. William Owen Cockcraft B.A.

Transcribed by Lynda Mudle-Small, October 2006

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