Chickerell Dorset Family History Guide
Chickerell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Padington, Podington, Putton, East Chickerell, and Charlestown.
Alternative names: West Chickerell
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1699
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHICKERELL (West), a parish in Weymouth district, Dorset; on the coast, at the East Fleet, 3 miles NW by W of Weymouth town and r. station.
It includes the tythings of East Chickerell and Putton; and has a post office under Weymouth. Acres, 1,812; of which 280 are water. Real property, £2, 620. Pop., 660. Houses, 143. The property is much subdivided.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £320. Patrons, the Duke of Cleveland and the Dowager Countess of Sandwich. The church is tolerable.
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: Weymouth
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Dorchester
- Poor Law Union: Weymouth
- Hundred: Culliford Tree; Sutton Poyntz Liberty
- Province: Canterbury