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Parish of Hinton St Mary |
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POSTAL & COMMERCIAL DIRECTORIES
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| From the early 19th century, until well into the 20th century, the publication of postal, street and commercial directories was a common occurrence. From the mid 19th century these publications gave a description of each parish as well as listing all the farmers, tradesmen and nobility/gentlemen of the parish. It was Kelly's Directory that came to dominate the market and this one continued to just beyond 1950. The parish description below is taken from the 1895 Kelly's. |
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Directories for 1895
and 1935 are transcribed from original books in my possession. Other
directories are transcribed from a photocopy of the directory
kindly provided by the Dorchester Reference Library. |
| Hinton St Mary
is a parish and village, near the river Stour, I mile north from
Sturminster station on the Midland and South Western Junction railway
and 8½ south-west from Shaftesbury, in the Northern division of the
county, petty sessional division, hundred and union of Sturminster,
Shaftesbury county court district, rural deanery of Shaftesbury (Sturminster
Newton portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The
church of St Peter is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style,
and with the exception of the square tower was rebuilt in 1846; it
consists of a nave, south porch and an embattled western tower with
pinnacles, containing 3 bells; the church contains a monument of the
Freke family dated 1655: a grant of £40 in aid of the rebuilding of the
church was made by the Incorporated Society for promoting the
Enlargement, Building and Repairing of Churches and Chapels, on
condition that the seats for 178 persons should be free and
unappropriated for ever; there are 234 sittings. The registers date from
the year 1581. The living, formerly a chapelry of Iwerne Minster, is now
a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £29, gross yearly value £244,
net £240, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Iwerne Minster,
and held since 1892 by the Rev. Edward Acton BA, of Merton College,
Oxford. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel. There is a charity of
about £8 yearly, derived from land in the parish of Sturminster Newton,
left by a member of the Freke family, originally for the purpose of
apprenticing children, but now partly applied to education and partly in
relief; also a charity called 'Poor's Money', being the interest on
£27, which is distributed amongst labouring men of the parish every
four or five years. The Manor House is the residence of Lieut.-Col. John
Mansel. Lieut.-Gen. A. H. L. Fox-Pitt-Rivers is lord of the manor and
chief landowner. The soil is clay and limestone; subsoil rock. The crops
are wheat, barley and roots, and some land in pasture. The area is 982
acres; rateable value £2,093; the population in 1891 was 252. Hewstock is half-a-mile south, and Cut Mill half-a-mile north-west, on the Stour. Post Office. Enos Kennison, sub-postmaster. Letters through Blandford arrive 7 a.m.; dispatched 6.15 p.m.; sunday, letters arrive 7 a.m.; dispatched 6 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Sturminster Union. National School (mixed), for 70 children; average attendance, 41; the school & teachers house were built in 1841, at a cost of £400; Alfred Richard Clarke, master. |
1855 Kelly's Directory
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1862 Harrod's Directory
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1867 Kelly's Directory
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1875 Kelly's Directory
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1880 Kelly's Directory
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1895 Kelly's Directory
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1935 Kelly's Directory
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