Corfe Mullen

EXTRACT FROM POST OFFICE DIRECTORY OF DORSETSHIRE 1859

Corfe Mullen is a parish in Cogdean Hundred, and Wimborne Union, distant from the latter town 2 miles south-west, 117 from London, 8 south-east from Blandford, and 8 north-west from Poole. The church or chapel, like most in this neighbourhood, appears very ancient, and was repaired about 1850. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of Eton College, and held by the Rev. Robert William Plumptre, M.A.   Here is one Dissenting chapel, and a Charity school. £10 a year, from a bequest, is expended and given to the poor in bread every Sunday, and cheese every fortnight, over a tombstone. Frederick Coventry, Esq., and William S. Adey, Esq., are lords of this manor. The area is 3155 acres, and the population in 1851 was 763.
East End and Lamb’s Green, 1 mile north-east; Newtown, 1 mile south-east; Henbury, 1 mile west; Beldam Howe, 1 and a half miles south-east. Cogdean, which gives name to the hundrre, is 1 and a half south-east. On the down is a barrow. Knowle House is the seat of W.C. Lambert Esq.

GENTRY
Brett John Lowden esq.  
Gould Captain  
Kemp Rev. Augustus M.A.  
Lambert William Charles esq. Knowle House
TRADERS
Allen James Carpenter
Allen Robert Parish Clerk and Postmaster
Apsey Joseph Wheelwright
Barfoot Eleanor (Mrs) Farmer
Barnes George Farmer, Knowle
Barnes Henry Builder
Beaverstock William Farmer
Brown George Farmer
Cherrett  Benjamin Beer Retailer
Clayton William Farmer
Foot Richard Shopkeeper
Frampton Mary (Mrs) Shopkeeper
Grant Mary (Mrs) Shopkeeper
Harris William Farmer and Miller
Hooper John Angel
Lanning James Farmer, Court Farm
Martin Thomas Farmer
Priddle John Wheelwright
Saunders Samuel Blacksmith
Woodman George Carpenter's Arms

Post Office – Robert Allen, receiver.  Letters arrive by foot post from Wimborne at

7 a.m.; dispatched 7 p.m.   The nearest money order office is at Wimborne.

Charity School – Mrs. Martha Thorne, mistress

 

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