The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-08-29 00:00:00

R MOHAN AND MS RELIGION HOMMEL

The paper entered miuutely into the social his.
tory of Wareham' from A.D. 8 10, when lisorhlrie,
king of Wawa:, was buried there, noticing the
ravages of the Danes and Vikings, the visit of Canute,
the re-building of Wareham C.Atie in 1015, which had
been destroyed by the Danes 876, the horning of the
town in 1142 by ritephen, the mute of Kase delin sad
Edward 1., the fact that in 1486 Beery VII. settled on
Elisabeth of York the prelim' on the sale of salmon
caught here, the part Wareham took daring the
Oommonwealth,tbat Nome Walpole was born here in
1717, and talcums to a doeum.mt between A.D. 1426
and 1436 whereby the Bishup of Norwich and others
agreed to let the manor of Wareham with others to
the Doke of York. turning to the religicits bowies.,
the writer poitit.,l out that the ..... lry tir.s founded
&le..' 86, it wet destrot..4 by the Da. s, but rebuilt
iu 915. Aerie about 1015 the are buppo eI to
hayo de.stroyei the house. In the time of 11-nry I.
was settled here a calk of Benedictine monks. In 1414
was suppressed.
The nest subj it W*4 lill/44reVel I by ordnance maps
oi the west of Cornwall, eget of Dorset. and east of
Keut, &Imaged on a cii line, which passed from the
North Foreland, /I ut through to the
LimaiA Point an I Lhgan stone in Uornwsil.

W. U. 131.A0c, Iq., F. 3.11., rood s pipet on

WAIUMAN AND THE ILlthlfar HISTOIUO .31011117111011:11

11l DOIUSIT.

The lecturer referred to • vast number of the anelent
monumente of the county, such a. the Cern° 'giant,
the White Rome, Aggloscono, Ito., the character and
intenain of which had been hitherto unintelligible
end put forward theory that it:ay wore to ba explained
as ancient gennetiiial fond marks of tho it imam
engineers. Too aitn-u•ioui ot var,oo. parts of the
Curtis giant, which he said eel the g 1 of
wore taken to express the distautiel botw ea distend
Lime otbs, well knuw ofitlum, o.tcref f otiro, •r
pert Of IL troll/ a gruel ininlinie ul
z.,n trail 11,1•,1 ebb aru n 414 -• says be
:h • 11,1114141. and p.lt.'ol 'Mania:m.ly I ,
able 1,0513100 which War. haw .0011p11.11 between'
tile Lizard in Cornwall and the North For.lignd end
• hint it wool l be found to be clammy half•wity
between ihnSo pOllllll.

Mr. tilkks p-roduord a piece of • modern survey, of
part of the Mersey and the neighbournool, and the
map was interaected all over by • 'midi of lutes far
inure intricate tossi those Yr. Mack hit op of.
lie (IL.. little) wrote to hie own brottler, a mud mut-
mender in the n•vy, grim was, he ventured to say
although he was his own brother, second to none in the
accuracy of kis observatioos : wanting to know oy
toutation whether Wwfdlllllll3 hiss es wily in tbe etraight
line between the L man stone and the North Fore-
land. lie fancied toot lit. Black might have been
mistaken in the auto.. ,toint, and that t in line should
~e drawn to trust is edlot the Pharoi of Ittotilsorongh
In K mte kits brotner had sent accurate o enputations,
and the result WM teat Wareh.tu twa, ot. in ...to
•treigut Line train tile Level to toe Piiarat of ltioh•
borough ; but there had Weis • singular noultrui.tion
so Lo the distant:at between Wareham al.l ttr• otter
two points, an as to th., lino it hut on. Mr. Mills
then read tile following computation. :
Memorandum ou lb° ru!stive IMMitil). of Riehborough
Phan" trio town c 4 Wareham in Dorset...hire, and the LOlllll
thiek 1,, Cornwall, in au.wer to a question (nail 0. M Hills,
• Eat., Treasurer liritieb dretteJlokeal Ateaciatiou. by Captain
Graham 11. Hills, U.N.. . _

Liverpool. 2214 July, 1871.
The p4ssitions of the several pl tees hero lee:Wooed, IN well
OA ail others referral to in the following routersç are assumed
from tho latitudes and •• measured on the
ortiosmuf MIN of tho survey of England, published on the
sede of one statute mile to the inch -and LI, inessurinuents
hereafter given are LII geo4raplocal utile, awl doxilaal
parts.
Fur the Richborou/h Pharos, I hove AMUTIVA the middle of
the east side of the qusdratigle ; for Warenain I have taken
In the first Inusitoe the north swat • .gle of the quadrso4le ;
the putitiou of the Logan Rock is soffiesenUy dellune to mike •
the mos,urements of its positios with tolersbie precision ; the
following are You latitudes and lougitudes thus obtained—

Iticliborougla
• L°F"l''
• ' • '
latitudo .... 51 17 23 GO al 10 N 65 2 7N
Longitude .. 1 20 19 E 2 7 0 W 5 37 35 W
Os Osseo dale your question is answered as follow
.
IL 000.
.. 275 20
.. 13.5 44
113 96

Wareham.

Richborough Logan Rock..
RAcltta.md o W.ruitato N.W. Anglu
1.0.4.6 n ItokLo Watuhatn N.W. Anglo

Thew three distances from he throe sole. •.1 an acme spherical
triangle theapes of which is at WirYllllll2 atortli.wrvq. nog e) and
on the meridian of Wareham dm 2.5de.41es amtii he wait u
which On+ said mondisn is intersected lie Ula ULa.l II 0 from
litichborough to Lo,rac It,clt. Tao n0m..., 11 kat, 01.101. has,
Line to the apes ic lath, to the westward ot too uteridian of
Wareham, and le 2.44 miles from the apex.
On your suggestion that pusibly the computation ottlijitt to
be made from the North F .relsod laslithoune, instead of trout
Itielitsorough, 1 how g3v4 y.mi the remit. obtained by substi-
tution of tins former It the latter --priatudo,g that the lIMLUde
IcalgtilUdu of I.e Nurtli Foreland is chocked toy that giros
oi the Adinirsity 11.1 a Ihiush
North Ihrhlaahl Lighthou.o.

Latitude
iludo

lltou—

M. Geo.
North Foreland to Logan Rock •
210 4
N .rtn Forei.u.l I, Wadi JO N. W. 511'{iU .. 111 61
Logan 'tone to Vianntatu (no before) ia• gg

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In this irtanglo Uoalmtonou on tho anondaan from this lianm
Lo I.lle . 4.1.; 0111.1 nth' Wu nuarult d.LiulCu from spox 1.0
Wow as mina.

Tun two Hula* of the triangle al bore • h4wn, are on nearly
equal Glut kite obvious that very near LI this apex, as bore con-
...inroad, beld• Oxide otioulistaint (toil! each sod of the base—.
this nitiound MO to Gry suoUlor triangle .1 MII.OII U.S CJUKO
of the encloatog quadrant° G 4 Warunam, a-curtained by Lao
iotoraectiou of ItoUO drawn from curia to curve. is takson a.
spas--

Wareham Umtruz