Hamworthy
EXTRACT FROM KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF DORSETSHIRE 1880
Hamworthy is a parish and
village having a junction on the South Western railway, 121 miles from London,
in the petty sessional division of East Shaston, hundred of Cogdean, union and
county court district of Poole, diocese f Salisbury, archdeaconry of Dorset and
rural deanery of Whitchurch second portion, situated on a peninsula in Poole
Harbour and is within the town of Poole. The church of St Michael was rebuilt in
1826; much of the old material was worked up in the new; it has pointed windows,
small chancel, nave, square tower with pinnacles and 2 bell; it has 300
sittings, mostly free; the edifice was re-seated in 1860. The registers date
from the year 1826; those with earlier dates are not deposited in the church.
The living is a rectory, yearly value £180 including 8 acres of glebe, with
residence, in the gift of Sir Ivor Bertie Guest bart. and held by Rev. Macnamara
Patey B.A. of St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. Here are extensive brick and
tile works, where mosaic, encaustic, tessellated, white glazed, and other
decorated tiles are manufactured. Sir Ivor Bertie Guest bart. of Canford, is
lord of the manor and sole land owner. The soil is loamy; subsoil, gravel and
sand. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 1052 acres;
ratable value £2664. The population in 1871 was 474.
Parish Clerk.
Cornelius Drake
Letters
received through Poole, which is the nearest money order office.
Here is a
National School for boys and girls, erected in 1869, at the cost of Sir Ivor
Bertie Guest bart. with a master’s residence attached; Alfred Richard Clarke,
master; Mrs Charlotte Matilda Clarke, mistress.
Railway
Station, Samuel Pettet, station master
Hamworthy
Junction, Thomas Keeble Bickers, station master
Harriss, Henry
Meadus, William
Needs, John
Patey, Rev.
Macnamara B.A., Rectory
Petts, Richard
Sanders, Frederick George, J.P.
Commercial
Architectural
Pottery Co, F.G.Sanders, resident partner
Beatment, Jmaes,
beer seller
Bickers, Thomas
Keeble, station master, Hamworthy junction
Blunden, James,
manager to Griffin & Son, timber merchants
Clarke, George,
auctioneer
Dean, Benjamin
& Son, farmers
Dorset Fire
Brick & Blue Clay Co. Ltd., Frank Gwynne Wheatley, sec. Hamworthy Junction
Dunn, George,
Juntion Hotel, Hamworthy Juntion
Eldon, Georgem
bailiff to F Styring esq.
Fish, Job,
Ponsonby Arms
Greenfield,
Aldbourne, chief officer of coast guard
Griffin &
Son, timber merchants
Habgood, Henry,
resident manager to Dorset Fire Brick & Blue Clay Co., Hamworthy Junction
Hart, Thomas, Shipwrights’
Arms
Meadus, William,
ship builder
Newman, William
& Robert, shipowners
Ormond, James,
saw mills
Pearce, Henry, Red
Lion
Randall, Henry
& Son, farmers
Saunders, James,
grocer
Saunders, James
& John, shipbuilders
Sydenham, Hunt
& Co., timber merchants
Thompson, George
Neave, twine manufacturers
White, Tom,
blacksmith
Young, George, Potters
Arms