Beer Hackett, Dorset Family History Guide

Beer Hackett is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Other places in the parish include: Knighton.

Alternative names: Beerhackett

Parish church: St. Michael

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1549
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1580

Nonconformists include:

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BEER-HACKETT, a parish in Sherborne district, Dorset; on the Dorchester and Yeovil railway, near Yetminster station, 5 miles SE by S of Yeovil. It includes the hamlet of Knighton; and its Post Town is Yetminster, under Sherborne. Acres, 903. Rated property, £1,024. Pop., 96. Houses, 16. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £201. Patrons, Sir J. Munden and Whelyar, Esq. The church needs repair.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BEER-HACKET (St. Michael), a parish, in the union and hundred of Sherborne, Sherborne division of Dorset, 5 miles (S. W. by S.) from Sherborne; containing 103 inhabitants, and comprising 907 acres, of which 53 are common or waste. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £6. 2. 8½., and in the gift of the family of Munden, and W. Helyer, Esq., the latter of whom has every fourth presentation: the tithes have been commuted for £164, and the glebe consists of 38 acres.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848