Chaldon Herring Dorset Family History Guide
Chaldon Herring is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Chaldon Boys and West Chaldon.
Alternative names: East Chaldon
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1621
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHALDON-HERRING, or East Chaldon, a parish in Wareham district, Dorset; near the coast, 3¾ miles S of Moreton r. station, and 9½ WSW of Wareham. Post Town, Winfrith, under Dorchester. Acres, 2,981. Real property, with Chaldon-Boys and Holworth, £3,285. Pop., 341. Houses, 63. The property is all in one estate. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £62. Patron, Joseph Weld, Esq. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Wareham
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Dorchester
- Poor Law Union: Wareham and Purbeck
- Hundred: Bindon Liberty
- Province: Canterbury