Buckhorn Weston, Dorset Family History Guide

Buckhorn Weston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

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Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1677
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BUCKHORN-WESTON, a parish in the district of Wincanton and county of Dorset; on the verge of the county, and on the Salisbury and Yeovil railway, 3¼ miles WSW of Gillingham r. station, and 4 SE of Wincanton. Post Town, Gillingham, under Bath. Acres, 1,632. Real property, with Kington-Magna, £7,920. Pop., 509. Houses, 117. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £360. Patron, Lady Stapleton.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BUCKHORN-WESTON, a parish, in the union of Wincanton, hundred of Redlane, Shaston division of Dorset, 8 miles (W. by N.) from Shaftesbury; containing 460 inhabitants. It comprises by computation 1700 acres: the soil is mostly clay, but fertile, and the meadows on the banks of the river Cale are luxuriantly rich.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £10. 1. 3., and in the patronage of Lady Stapleton: the tithes have been commuted for £310, and the glebe comprises 63 acres. In the chancel of the church is an ancient statue, supposed to be that of the father-in-law of Gascoigne, lord chief justice in the reigns of Henry IV. and V.; the gallery of the church is said to have been painted by Sir James Thornhill.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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Administration

County: Dorset
Civil Registration District: Wincanton
Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
Diocese: Salisbury
Rural Deanery: Shaftesbury
Poor Law Union: Wincanton
Hundred: Redland
Province: Canterbury