Wimborne
 

Wimborne and Cranborne Poor Law Union and Workhouse

Board Day, every alternate Friday, at the Poor Law Institution, at 122 noon.
The Union comprises the following Parishes:

• Alderholt
• Almer
• Chalbury
• Colehill
• Corfe Mullen
• Cranborne
• Edmondsham
• Gussage All Saints
• Gussage St Michael
• Hampreston
• Handley
• Hinton Martell
• Hinton Parva
• Holt
• Horton
• Long Critchel
• Moor Critchel
• Pamphill
• Pentridge
• Shapwick
• Sturminster Marshall
• Verwood
• West Parley
• Wimborne Minster
• Wimborne St Giles
• Witchampton
• Woodlands
• Woodyates West
• Woodyates East

The area is 81,533 acres; rateable value £99,673; the population in 1911 was 18,675.
Chairman of the Board of Guardians, Henry John Mills, The Knoll, Corfe Mullen, Wimborne.
Clerk to the Guardians and Assessment Committee, Montagu Luff M.A. Church Street, Wimborne.
The Poor Law Institution, East Borough, is a structure of brick, built about 1780, to hold 186 inmates; 
Rev. Taku John Constable Parry-Evans A.K.C.L., Chaplain.
Alfred Henry Wareham, Master.
Mrs Alice Mary Wareham, Matron.
Miss Florence Elizabeth Bonning, Caretaker of Children.
Source: Kelly's Directory 1915

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