Woodbury Hill Fair 18 September and 4 following days.
The population in 1871 was 1676 including 310 in Milborne Stileham
The Parish Clark is John Lane
Post, Money Order & Telegraph Office & Savings Bank: Mrs Mary Ann Dowland, receiver. Letters received through Blandford at 8.15am and dispatched at 4.55pm.
Insurance Agents:
British Equitable, Norwich & London, Phoenix Fire, all John Hallett
Public Offices:
Registrar of Births & Death & Relieving Officer; William Bullen
Assistant Overseer & Collector of Rates & Taxes; Henry Clark Galton
Inland Revenue Officer: William Leghorn
Schools:
Three National Schools are in the parish - one for boys at Barrow Hill, one for girls & infants at Shitterton & a mixed school for the scattered district of Bere Heath.
National School, Barrow Hill; George House, master.
Shitterton, Miss Elizabeth Cross, mistress; Miss Jane Galton, infants' mistress.
Bere Heath, Miss Emma Horth, mistress.
British, Miss Jane Wilkins, mistress
Carriers to:-
Blandford - Mrs Selina Day, friday
Dorchester - Mrs Selina Day, wednesday & saturday, William Purchase, saturday
Poole - Mrs Selina Day, monday & thursday
Wareham - Mrs Selina Day, tuesday
PRIVATE RESIDENTS
Mrs Galpin
Montague John Guest, J.P.,D.L., The Retreat;& 3 Savile Row, London W
Rev John Frere Langford, M.A. (vicar)
Francis Daniel Lys
Charles James Radclyffe, J.P., Hyde (MFH, S.Dorset)
Charles Jas. Radclyffe jun., J.P., Hyde
William Fredk. Radclyffe, Woodlands
Mrs Scutt
Mrs Shaddock
Rev. Thomas Simm (congregational)
Rev. William Percy Schuster, M.A. (curate)
COMMERCIAL
James Arnold, Drax's Arms
Charles Bascombe, Court Farm
Walter Beckingham, brick & tile ma; & at Melcombe's Bingham
Charles Besent, farmer, Shitterton Farm
Biles & Kelloway, blacksmiths
John White Boswell, painter &c
Stephen Brown, plumber
James Bullen, carpenter, Shitterton
William Bullen, registrar, Shitterton
John Burt, farmer, Culeaze
George Chard, tailor
George Davis, carpenter
James Davis, carpenter
Mathew Davis, carpenter
Mrs Selina Day, carrier
George Dibben, farmer
Thos. Edwd. Dowden, farmer, Roke Farm
Mrs Mary Ann Dowland, grocer
Henry Clark Galton, builder, cabinet maker
John Hallett, watch & clock maker, jeweller & fancy dealer
John Henning, farmer, Doddings
George Hibbs, grocer & draper
Harvey House, carpenter
Robert House, carpenter & shopkeeper
James Janes, harness maker
Hy. Chas. Jenkins, tailor & woollen draper
Charles Jesty, farmer, Filiols
William Jesty, farmer
John J. Johnson, brewer & maltster
Joseph Kelloway, butcher
Joseph Knowles, Royal Oak & Inland Revenue office
John Lane, boot & shoe maker
Mrs Martha Lane, grocer
Wm. Leghorn, inland revenue officer
Francis Daniel Lys, surgeon
Thomas Marsh, farmer
George Miller, machine owner
John Miller, farmer & machine owner
Joseph Hamilton Mundell, grocer & agent for W & A Gilbey, wine & spirit merchants
James Nutbeem, dairyman, Stockley
William Purchase, carrier
Reading Room (George House, secretary)
George Russell, farmer
James Russell, farmer
Edward Scutt, farmer, Warren Farm
John Thos. Homer Scutt, miller & seed mer.
Richard Scutt jun., farmer, Stockley
Richard Scutt sen., farmer, Chaimberlain's Farm
Wm. Jones Scutt, millr. Chaimberlain's ml.
Edwin Shave, wheelwright
Charles Sheppard, bricklayer
George Sheppard, builder
Wm. Clench Sheppard, bricklayer
Henry Tozer, farmer
James Welch, baker
John Compton Whennell, carpenter
