Woodbury Hill Fair held 21 & 22 September
1881 Population 1542 inc 258 at Milborne Stileham
Parish Clerk, John Lane
Post, Money Order & Telegraph Office & Savings Bank
Henry Charles Jenkins, sub-postmaster. Letters received through Wareham; delivery commences at 7.15am & 2.40pm & disspatched at 10.55am & 6.10pm, sundays 10.25am. Pillar Box, Bere Heath, cleared at 5pm week days only
Insurance Agent: County Fire & Provident Life; George Hibbs
Cemetery; William Bullen, clerk to the Burial Board
Reading Room; James Davis, secretary
PUBLIC OFFICERS
Registrar of Births & Deaths, Clerk to the Burial Board & Relieving Officer for the Bere Regis district; William Bullen
Assistant Overseer & Collector of Rates & Taxes; Henry Clark Galton, Wareham.
SCHOOLS
National (boys), Barrow Hill, founded in 1719 by Thomas Williams Esq and placed under government inspection in 1870 & enlarged about the same time for 98 children; average attendance, 36; partly supported by Williams' charity; Charles Hiscock, master.
Shitterton, for 156 children; average attendance, 70; Miss Emma Huse, mistress; Miss Mary Ann Skuse, infant's mistress.
Bere Heath (mixed), built in 1875 for 58 children; average attendance, 36; Miss Emma Horth, mistress.
CARRIERS TO:-
Blandford - Mrs Selina Day, tues & fri
Dorchester - Mrs Selina Day, wed & sat
Poole - Mrs Selina Day, mon & thurs
Wareham - Mrs Selina Day, tues
PRIVATE RESIDENTS
Miss Dowden, Snow Hill
Miss Gallop, West Street
Mrs Galpin, West Street
Montague John Guest MP, JP, DL, The Retreat & 3 Savil Row, London W
John Henning, West Street
Charles Jesty, North Street
Rev John Frere Langford, MA (vicar)
Francis Daniel Lys, White Lovington
Charles James Radclyffe, JP, Hyde House
William Fredk Radclyffe, Woodlands
John R.F. Ross (Congregational), The Manse
Mrs Sibley, Butt Lane
Rev Richard Plowman Wing BA, (curate)
COMMERCIAL
Thomas Aplin, butcher
James Arnold, Drax's Arms P.H.
Charles Bascombe, farmer, Court Farm
Walter Beckingham, brick & tile maker, and at Harfoot Lane, Anstey
Charles Besent, farmer, Shitterton Farm
James Bevercomb, pork butcher, poulterer, and shopkeeper, West Street
John White Boswell, painter, Photographer &c
Stephen Brown, plumber
William Bullen, registrar etc, Shitterton
James Bullen, carpenter, Shitterton
John Burt, farmer
Cemetery (William Bullen, clerk)
Samuel Cobb, farmer
Fredk. Cole, miller(water), West mill
James Davis, carpenter
Matthew Davis, carpenter
Mrs Selina Day, carrier
George Dibben, farmer
Thomas Edward Dowden, farmer, Roke farm
William George, Royal Oak P.H.
John Hallett, watch & clock maker, jeweller and fancy dealer.
William Fredk. Henning, farmer, Doddings
George Hibbs, grocer, draper & provision dlr
Henry Hoare, farmer, Lane end
Harvey House, carpenter
Robert House, carpenter & shopkeeper
James Janes, harness maker
Henry Charles Jenkins, tailor, woollen draper, hatter, stationer & fancy goods dealer & Post Office.
Henry Robert Jesty, farmer, Filiols
John Josia Johnson, brewer & maltster
Joseph Kalloway, butcher
Richard Amos Kellaway, blacksmith, machinist &c
John Lane, boot & shoe maker, North Street
John Lane, boot & shoe maker, Shitterton
Mrs Martha Lane, grocer & draper
James Lockyer, thatcher, North Street
Daniel Francis
Francis Daniel Lys, surgeon & medical officer
Thomas Marsh, farmer, West Street
George Miller, machine owner
John Miller, farmer & machine owner
Thomas Miller, farmer, Rye Hill
J.H. Mundell & Co. grocers, ironmongers, provision dealers &c & agents for W & A. Gilbey, wine & spirit merchants.
Alfred Nutbeen, butcher, Bere Heath
James Nutbeen, dairyman, Stockley
Reading Room (James Davis sec.)
Fredk Ricketts, boot and shoe ma., North Street
George Russell, farmer
Herbert George Russell, baker & grocer
Miss Ellen E. Scutt, preparatory school
Edwin Shave, wheelwright, timber dealer &c
Charles Sheppard, bricklayer
George Sheppard, builder
William Clench Sheppard, bilder
Roger Strange, miller (water) & farmer; Chamberlain's mill
Henry Tozer, farmer
James Welch, baker
