Buckland Newton, Dorset Family History Guide

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Buckland Newton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Other places in the parish include: Brockhampton and Knowle, Duntish, Minterne Parva, Brockhampton, Knoll, Knowle, Mintern Parva, Buckland Newton St John the Baptist, and Plush.

Alternative names: Buckland Abbas

Parish church: Holy Rood

Parish registers begin:

Buckland Newton

  • Parish registers: 1568
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Buckland Newton St John the Baptist

  • Parish registers: 1850
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Buckland Newton Parish Records

Buckland Newton Poor Law Apprenticeship Records, 1623-1898

Historical Directories

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.

BUCKLAND NEWTON

Henry E. Ravenhill, clerk in orders, Vicarage
Carr S. Glyn, church warden
John C. Foot, church warden
William S. Foot, farmer
J.W. Sanford, farmer
John Toop, farmer
Henry Galpin, farmer
William J. Birkbeck, clerk in orders

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.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BUCKLAND NEWTON, a tything, a parish, and a hundred in Dorset. The tything lies 3¼ miles NE by N of Cerne-Abbas, and 6 E by N of Evershot r. station; includes a village, which formerly was the seat of market; and has a post office under Dorchester.

The parish contains also the tythings of Plush, Duntish, Mintern-Parva, and Brockhampton and Knowle; and is in the district of Dorchester. Acres, 6,018. Real property, exclusive of Mintern-Parva, £8,446. Pop., 972. Houses, 193. The property is divided among a few.

The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Plush, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £496. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Wells. The parish church is early and later English; and has an embattled tower and a low spire. Plush church is a neat structure of 1848. There are a dissenting chapel, and charities £27. The hundred contains four parishes; and is in Cerne division. Acres, with part of Bindon liberty, 11,940. Pop. in 1851, 1,788. Houses, 360.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BUCKLAND-NEWTON (Holy Rood), a parish, in the union of Cerne, hundred of Buckland-Newton, Cerne division of the county of Dorset, 4 miles (N. E. by N.) from Cerne; comprising the tythings of Brockhampton, Buckland, Duntish, Knowle, Mintern Parva, and Plush; and containing 914 inhabitants, of whom 310 are in the tything of Buckland.

The parish is on the great road from Weymouth to Bath, and comprises by measurement 6018 acres, of which about 1241 are arable, 4085 meadow and pasture, 237 woodland, and 308 common. The substratum is chalk, in which are imbedded some few flints; and a little sandstone is found on the western confines.

The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £16. 19. 9½.; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Wells; impropriators, the representatives of Leonard Pount, Esq., who have commuted their tithes for £745: the vicarial tithes have been commuted for £550; 104 acres of glebe belong to the impropriators, and 19½ to the vicar. The church is in the early and later English styles; the chancel has lancet windows: a gallery, containing 120 sittings, was built in 1821.

At Plush is a chapel of ease, more ancient than the church. The Independents have a place of worship. There are some remains of a Roman camp.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Dorset
  • Civil Registration District: Dorchester
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Whitchurch
  • Poor Law Union: Cerne
  • Hundred: Buckland Newton
  • Province: Canterbury