Corscombe Dorset Family History Guide

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Corscombe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Other places in the parish include: Toller Whelme.

Parish church: St. Michael

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1595
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Corscombe Parish Registers

Corscombe Marriages 1595 to 1837 Dorset Parish Registers: Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., and Edmund Nevill, B.A., F.S.A. Vol 6. 1912. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Corscombe Parish Records

Corscombe Poor Law Apprenticeship Records, 1623-1898

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.

CORSCOMBE

W. Locock, rector
William Snayden, churchwarden
Henry Salisbury, farmer
John Dunning, Urless Farm
Henry Legg, butcher
Jonathan Meech, farmer
Thomas Griffin, farmer
Blakley Barrett, carpenter
James Rowe, grocer
Jonathan Pyne, relieving officer

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

CORSCOMBE, a parish in Beaminster district, Dorset; 4 miles NE of Beaminster, and 5¼ W of Evershot r. station. It has a post office under Dorchester. Acres, 5, 003. Real property, with Benville, Chelborough, and Halstock, £12, 104. Pop., 753. Houses, 165. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to the Disneys. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £514. Patron, the Rev. T. B. Ferris. The church is of the time of Henry VII., and is good.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

CORSCOMBE (St. Michael), a parish, in the union and hundred of Beaminster, Bridport division of Dorset, 3½ miles (N. E.) from Beaminster; containing 810 inhabitants. The parish comprises by computation 5000 acres; the soil is various, in some parts chalky, in some clayey, and in others a rich black mould.

The village is situated on the north side of a hill, and commands extensive views over the county of Somerset to the Bristol Channel, and the mountains of Wales. The Court-house, belonging to the lord of the manor, and now occupied as a farmhouse, is nearly encompassed by a moat, over which was a drawbridge. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £21. 3. 4., and in the gift of W. Maskell, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £573, and the glebe comprises 61 acres. The church is a neat edifice, erected about 1675.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Dorset
  • Civil Registration District: Beaminster
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Bridport
  • Poor Law Union: Beaminster
  • Hundred: Beaminster
  • Province: Canterbury