West Parley 

 

KELLY'S POST OFFICE DIRECTORY OF DORSETSHIRE 1867

 

 West Parley is a parish, in the petty sessional division of East Shaston, hundred of Cranborne, county court district of Wimborne Minster, diocese of Salisbury, archdeaconry of Dorset, and rural deanery of Pimperne, situated on the borders of Hampshire, and bounded by the river Stour, distant 5 miles south-east from Wimborne, 8 north-east from Poole, 6 north-west from Christchurch, and 120 from London. The church is very small, of Norman structure, with low square tower. The living is a rectory, yearly value £250, in the gift of Mrs Buller, and held by the Rev. Henry John Buller, M.A. of Trinity College, Oxford. A considerable portion of this parish is heath land. The population in 1861 was 268; acreage, 3,407.

Dudsbury is one mile north-west. Here is a large roman camp.

Parish Clerk, E. ELLIOTT

 

BULLER Rev. Henry John, M.A., Rector

ELLIOTT Ethelbert, farmer, Manor Farm

KING William, farmer, Stocks

PIKE Stephen, farmer

REEKS George, farmer

SMITH John, Horns, & Shopkeeper

 

Letters through Wimborne via Longham. Wimborne is the nearest money order office.

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