Charminster Dorset Family History Guide
Charminster is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Burton and Forston.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1561
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1591
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Godmanstone
- Puddletown
- Piddlehinton
- West Fordington
- Nether Cerne
- Dorchester Holy Trinity with Frome Whitfield
- Piddletrenthide
- Stratton
- Bradford Peverell
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHARMINSTER, a village and a parish in Dorchester district, Dorset. The village stands on a branch of the river From, adjacent to the Dorchester and Yeovil railway, 2 miles NNW of Dorchester; and has a post-office under Dorchester.
The parish contains also the hamlets of Burton and Forston, and the county lunatic asylum. Acres, 4,095. Real property, £2,608. Pop., 1,020. Houses, 148. The property is divided among a few.
The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Stratton, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £137. Patron, Henry Pickard, Esq. The church is very good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Dorchester
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Whitchurch
- Poor Law Union: Dorchester
- Hundred: George
- Province: Canterbury