Mappowder

KELLY'S DIRECTORY 1907

Transcribed from Kellys Directory of Dorsetshire 1907 by Trevor Penfold at PRO Kew 11th January 2003

Mappower is a parish and small village, on a feeder of the river Lidden, 7 miles south-west from Sturminster Newton station on the Midland and South Western Junction railway, 10 north-by-east from Dorchester, and 7 north-east from Cerne Abbas, in the Western division of the county, hundred of Buckland Newton, petty sessional division and union of Cerne, Dorchester county court district, rural deanery of Whitchurch (Cerne portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury.  The church of SS. Peter and Paul is a small edifice of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle, south porch, and a western tower, with pinnacles, containing 5 bells: there is a memorial to a boy Crusader: the church was restored in 1865, and has sittings for 120 persons.  The register dates from the year 1653.  The living is a rectory, net income of £215, with residence and 89 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Crown, and held since 1885 by the Rev. Alfred Roberts B.A. of Queen’s College, Cambridge.  Here is a small iron Mission hall (unsectarian).  The curfew bell is rung here from October to Lady Day.  F.J.B. Wingfield-Digby esq. of Sherborne Castle, is lord of the manor and chief landowner.  The soil is clay and gravel; subsoil, limestone.  The land is chiefly in pasture.  The area is 1,901 acres; rateable value, £2,422; the population in 1901 was 207.

Parish Clerk, George Legg

Post Office – James Gillard, sub-postmaster.  Letters from Sturminster Newton S.O. arrive at 8.30 a.m.; dispatch at 4.40 p.m.; no delivery on Sundays.  Haselbury Bryan, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office

Elementary School (mixed), built in 1870, for 50 children; average attendance, 33; Mrs. Laura Gillard, mistress

 

Roberts Rev.

 Alfred B.A

Rectory

 

COMMERCIAL.

 

 

 

Boatswain

 Horace,

farmer

 

Boatswain

 Jane E. (Mrs.),

farmer,

Place farm

Burch

William Sydney,

farmer,

Parsonage farm

Cross

Henry,

farmer,

Boywood

Dunning

Robt.

Farmer,

Thurwood fm

Francis

Percy,

dairyman

 

Gillard

Ernest,

assistant overseer

 

Gillard

Jas.

Shopkeeper & post office

 

House

Walter,

frmr.

Old Boywood frm

Hutchings

Henry,

farmer,

Hammond Street farm

Jeanes

William,

carpenter

 

Sibley

Arthur,

 

Nag’s Head P.H

Topp

Richard,

farmer,

Styles farm

Mappowder

KELLY'S DIRECTORY 1923

Transcribed from Kellys Directory of Dorsetshire 1907 by Trevor Penfold at PRO Kew 11th January 2003

Mappower is a parish and small village, on a feeder of the river Lidden, 7 miles south-west from Sturminster Newton station on the London, Midland and Scottish and Southern joint line, 10 north-by-east from Dorchester, and 7 north-east from Cerne Abbas, in the Western division of the county, hundred of Buckland Newton, petty sessional division and union of Cerne, county court district of Dorchester, rural deanery of Cerne, archdeaconry of Sherborne and diocese of Salisbury.  The church of SS. Peter and Paul is a small edifice of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle, south porch, and a western tower, with pinnacles, containing 5 bells: the font is of the 13th century, and a pre-Reformation altar stone was discovered during the restoration of 1865: there is a memorial to a boy Crusader: the church was restored in 1865 and again in 1921,  and has sittings for 120 persons.  The register dates from the year 1653.  The living is a rectory, net yearly value £249, with residence and 89 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Crown, and held since 1921 by the Rev. George Arthur Coleman, of St. Aidan’s.  The curfew bell is rung here from October to Lady Day.  Arthur Hugh Clough esq. is lord of the manor and chief landowner.  The soil is clay and gravel; subsoil, limestone.  The land is chiefly in pasture.  The area is 1,901 acres; rateable value, £2,924; the population in 1911 was 168.

Parish Clerk, George Legg

Letters from Sturminster Newton, Dorset.   Haselbury Bryan, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office

Elementary School (mixed), built in 1870, for 50 children; Miss Searchfield, mistress

Coleman

Rev. George Arthur (rector),

 

Rectory

Osborne

 Eric A. Hammond

 

Street fm

COMMERCIAL.

 

 

 

Chaldicott

Frdk.

frmr.

Parsonage frm.

Coombes

G & A.

 farmers

 

Edwards

Fredk. Wm.

 

Nag’s Head P.H

House

Albert,

 frmr.

Old Boywood frm

Kelly

M & N (Misses).

 Grocers

 

Kelly –Timothy

 farm baliff to Arthur Hugh Clough esq 

Osborne

Eric Alexander

 farmer

Hammond Street farm

Rolls

Reginald

farmer

Boywood

Mappowder

Kelly's Directory 1935

Transcribed from Kelly’s Directory of Dorsetshire 1935 by Trevor Penfold at PRO Kew 11th January 2003

Mappower is a parish and small village, on a feeder of the river Lidden, 7 miles south-west from Sturminster Newton station on the London, Midland and Scottish and Southern joint line, 10 north-by-east from Dorchester, and 7 north-east from Cerne Abbas, in the Western division of the county, hundred of Buckland Newton, petty sessional division of Cerne, rural district of Sturminster, county court district of Dorchester, rural deanery of Cerne, archdeaconry of Sherborne and diocese of Salisbury.  The church of SS. Peter and Paul is a small edifice of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle, south porch, and a western tower, with pinnacles, containing 5 bells: the font is of the 13th century, and a pre-Reformation altar stone was discovered during the restoration of 1865: there is a memorial to a boy Crusader: the church was restored in 1865 and again in 1921,  and has sittings for 120 persons.  The register dates from the year 1653.  The living is a rectory, net yearly value £460, with residence and 4 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Crown, and held since 1921 by the Rev. George Arthur Coleman, of St. Aidan’s.  The curfew bell is rung here from October to Lady Day.  John Fisher esq. is a principal landowner.  The soil is clay and gravel; subsoil, limestone.  The land is chiefly in pasture.  The area is 1,901 acres; the population in 1931 was 160. 

Post & Tel. Call Office.  Letters from Sturminster Newton.  Hazelbury Bryan nearest M. O. & T. office

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. 

 

 

Coleman

Rev.George Arthur

(rector)

Rectory

Fisher

John,

 

Place house

 

 

 

 

COMMERCIAL.

Marked * farm 150 acres or over.

Chadicott

Arth.

Farmer,

Monkwood hl

Chaldicott

Wm. Michl.

 farmer,

Parsonage farm

Coombes

A.

farmer,

Dairy House frm

Cox

Fredk. Spencer,

shopkpr. & post office.

 Hazelbury Bryan 6

Eastman

H.

farmer,

Thurnwood

*Fisher

John,

farmer,

Place farm

Frizzell

Jack,

farmer,

Thurnwood

Harvey

Edwd.

Farmer,

Nag’s Head

Hicks

Thos.

 

Nag’s Head P.H.

Hiscock

J.

farmer,

Thurnwood

House

Arth.

Farmer

 

*Kelly

Timothy & Sons,

farmers,

Styles farm. Hazelbury Bryan 15

Legg

Thos.

Smallholder

 

Parsons

Tom,

farmer

 

Ralph

Gilbt.

farmer,

Saunders dairy

*Rolls

Regnld.

 farmer,

Boywood

Taylor

Ernest Evelyn,

farmer,

Old Boywood farm

Way

Bros.

farmers

 

Westaway

Harold Geo.

farmer,

Nag’s Head farm

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