Directories
Introduction from Kelly's directory of Dorset 1920
TYNEHAM is a parish, in the Isle of Purbeck, bounded on the south by the English Channel, nearly 6 miles west-by-south from Corfe Castle, on the Swanage branch of the London and South Western railway and 7 south-by-west from wareham, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Hasilor, Wareham petty sessional division and county court district. Wareham and Purbeck union, rural deanary of Purbeck, arch-deaconary of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St Mary is a small cruciform ediface of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles, and consists of a chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, west porch, and a central bell-cott containing 2 bells: the north trasept was a chantry chapel, belongong to the manor house; the south transept is modern: there are three monuments of Caen stone, to the Rev. William Bond, formerly rector of Steeple with Tyneham, and canon of Bristol; to William Bond esq. metropolitan police magistrate and recorder of Poole and Wareham, and to the Rev. Henry Bond esq. barrister-at-law: there is a lso an ancient monument with eleven shields of arms, to Henry Williams, son of John Williams, of Herrington, d. 1641: divine service was formerly performed in this parish only once on each Sunday in the year, and on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and Christmas Day: in 1848 the Rev. William Bond, considering the increase of the population, gave the sum of £1,700 to the Govenors of Queen Anne's Bounty upon trust to pat the dividends half yearly to the rector of Tyneham, upon condition of his performing two full services, with a sermon, every sunday and also on Good Friday and Christmas Day: there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1654. the living is a rectory, with that of Steeple annexed, joint net yearly value £400, with residence and 25 acres of glebe, 19 of which are in Tyneham, in the gift of John Wentworth Garneys Bond esq. D.L., Coupe M.A. of selwyn College, Cambridge. Various intersting antiquities have been found in this parish and several of the barrows, which are very numerous in this neighbourhood, have been opened, and found to contain human remains, pottery and circular pieces of jet called coal money. Tyneham house, the residence of William Henry Bond esq. JP is a mansion of Purbeck ashlar, commenced in 1567 and mostly built in 1583, but considerable alterations and additions were made by the late Rev. William Bond in 1820; the east front has a porch and three gables, and a new enterance in a similar style has been made on the north side. There is no manor. The principal landowners are John Wentworth Garneys Bond esq DL, J. P. William H. Bond esq., J. P. Reginald Joseph Weld esq. and H. H. House esq. The soil is very various, but principally clay; subsoil, principally chalk. The chief crops are barley, wheat and oats; there is also some very good pasture land. The area is 2,966 acres of land and 1 of water; rateable value, £1,400; population in 1911, 209.
POVINGTON, one mile north, a hamlet, and formerly a manor, was, soon after the conquest, given by Robert Fitzgerald to the abbey of Bec, in Normandy. On the dissolution of alien priories by 2 Hen. V. (1416) it
was given by Henry VI to Eton College, and afterwards came by exchange to the Crown, and was given by Edward VI to the Duke of Somerset; after his attainder Queen Elizabeth granted it to Edward, Earl of Hertford, who sold the demenses and copyholds to the tenants and thus extingguished the manor.
EGLISTON, anciently a manor and a hamle, derives its name from Englin, its ancient owner; it now consists of two farms, known as North Egliston, three-quarters of a mile north-east and South Egliston 1 3/4 miles south-east and a portion of Tyneham farm.
WORBARROW is a hamlet, 1 mile south-west; BALINGTON is half a mile west; WHITEWAYadjoins Povington, and was anciently parcel of that manor.
GENTRY
BOND Miss Jane, Tyneham house
BOND Miss Mary, Tyneham house
BOND Thomas esq, Tyneham house
TRUELL Rev. Wm. BA [curate], Rectory
TRADERS
COOPER Joseph, farmer, Povington
DUGDALE Robert, farmer, Whiteway frm
HULL William, farmer, Tyneham farm
MILLER Joseph, shopkeeper, Warbarrow
SCUTT Rboert, farmer, Ballington
SPENCER Thos. beer retailer, Warbarrow
TUCK John, farmer, Povington
Letter through Wareham, which is also the nearest money order office
Private Residents
BOND Miss Jane, Tyneham house
BOND Miss Mary, Tyneham house
BOND Thomas esq, Tyneham house
TRUELL Rev. Wm. BA [curate], Rectory
Traders
BENNETT John, farmer, Whiteway farm
CHILCOTT James, farmer, Povington
COOPER Joseph, farmer, Povington
FARWELL Thomas, grocer, Whiteway
HULL William, farmer, Tyneham farm
MILLER Joseph, shopkeeper, Warbarrow
SCUTT Robert, farmer, Balington
SPENCER Thos. berr retailer, Warbarrow
BOND Rev. John MA Tyneham house
BOND Thomas JP, Tyneham house
BROWNE Rev. William Charles [curate]
WORDSWORTH Rev. Preb. Christr MA Rectry
BUTT Henry, farmer, West Whiteway
CHILCOTT Arthur, farmer, Balington farm
CHILCOTT William, farmer, Povington
COOPER William, farmer, Povington
HULL Esther Mary (Mrs), farmer
MORES Ann (Mrs), shopkeeper
ROPER Wm Henry farm baliff to Nathl. BOND esq. North Egliston farm
BOND Rev. John MA, Tyneham house
WORDSWORTH Rev. Canon Christopher MA, Rectory
CHILCOTT Arth., farmer, Balington frm
CHILCOTT William, farmer, Povington
COOPER Thomas, gardener & Taxidermist
COOPER William, farmer, Povington
HULL William, farmer
MEAD George, farm Baliff to Nathl. BOND esq., North Egliston farm
MORES Ann (Mrs), shopkeeper
Parish Clerk, William TAYLOR
Post & T Office - Mrs Edith HERD, Sub-postmistress.
Letters through Corfe Castle, 6 miles distant, which is the nearest money order
office
Wall Box, Warbarrow
Elementry School, built in 1856, for 60 children; Miss N WOODMAN, mistress
Private Residents
BOND Misses, South Egliston House
BOND William Hy. J. P. Tyneham ho
COUPE Rev. Thomas Openshaw MA (rector), Rectory
Commercial
* marked thus farm 150 acres or over
BURDEN Edward, farmer, Whiteway fm
HERD Edith (Mrs), shpkpr. Post office
HOUSE Albert, farmer, Povington
*HOWARD William, farmer, Povington
*LONGMAN Albert, farmer, Povington
*SMITH Walter, farmer
WRIXON Thomas, farmer, Povington