Askerswell, Dorset Family History Guide
ASKERSWELL is a small village and parish in the union, petty sessional division and county court district of Bridport, hundred of Eggerton, rural deanery of Bridport second portion, archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese Salisbury, 4 miles east from Bridport, situated on the Asker brook.
Parish church: St. Michael
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1560
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ASKERSWELL, a parish in Bridport district, Dorset; on an affluent of the river Brid, 5 miles E of Bridport r. station. It has a post office under Bridport. Acres, 1,161. Real property, with Loders, Up-Loders, and Mattravers, £7,127. Pop., 223. Houses, 48. The surface is a pleasant valley surrounded by hills. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £160. Patron, Mrs. H. T. Bower. The church was built in 1858, but has a tower which belonged to a previous edifice. Charities, £6.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ASKERSWELL (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Bridport, hundred of Eggerton, Bridport division of Dorset, 4 miles (E.) from Bridport; containing 233 inhabitants. It contains about 1200 acres; the soil is chalky, and the surface hilly. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £9. 2. 6.; net income, £160; patron, the Rev. James Cox. The glebe contains 23 acres, with a house.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Kelly’s Directory of Dorsetshire 1880
ASKERSWELL is a small village and parish in the union, petty sessional division and county court district of Bridport, hundred of Eggerton, rural deanery of Bridport second portion, archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese Salisbury, 4 miles east from Bridport, situated on the Asker brook.
Parish Clerk, Mark White
POST OFFICE – Miss Annie Nobbs, receiver. Letters received through Bridport at 10.35 a.m. dispatched at 4.45 p.m. Bridport is the nearest money order & telegraph office
County Police Station, James Hill, sergeant
National School, Miss Fanny Fry, mistress
Conway Richard
Fox Rev Edward Walter BA rector
Way George
Bishop Jane Mrs miller
Bishop William farmer
Dawe Ellis farmer South Eggardon
Legg Edward Gapper farmer
Nobbs Annie Miss dress maker post office
Osmant John miller & baker
Shepherd John farmer Court farm
Vine Job dairyman
White Mark shopkeeper
Williams John Three Horse Shoes & blacksmith
Woodsford Joseph boot & shoe maker
Source: Kelly’s directory of Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire (the Isle of Wight, and the Channel Islands). By Kelly’s directories, ltd · 1880
An Address from the County of Dorset on the Elementary Education Bill, May 9 1870
To the Right Honourable The EARL de GREY and RIPON President of Her Majesty’s Privy Council and To the Right Honourable W. E. FORSTER MP Vice President
We the undersigned Clergy and Laity of the Archdeaconry and County of Dorset, accepting the principle of the Elementary Education Bill now before Parliament, by which in existing Schools perfect liberty of Religious Teaching is guaranteed to the Managers, together with perfect liberty of withdrawal from such Teaching to the Parents of the Children, do earnestly deprecate any Alteration in the Bill which may affect such principle.
At the same time we are prepared to concede, if necessary, the substitution for the so-called Conscience Clause, of an Enactment which shall confine the Teaching of the Formularies of any Denomination to the first part of the School Hours.
ASKERSWELL
E.W. Fox, rector
John Shepherd, church warden
Source: An Address from the County of Dorset on the Elementary Education Bill, May 9 1870 by Dorset. Published by H. Spicer, Dorset County Chronicle Office, 1870.
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Bridport
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Bridport
- Poor Law Union: Bridport
- Hundred: Eggerton
- Province: Canterbury