Fontmell Magna Dorset Family History Guide
Fontmell Magna is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset. West Orchard is a chapelry of Fontmell Magna.
Other places in the parish include: Hargrove, Hartgrave, Hartgrove, Bedchester, and Bedcester.
Alternative names: Great Fontmell, Fontmell
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
FONTMELL, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Shaftesbury district, Dorset. The village stands 4 miles S of Shaftesbury, and 4 N by E of Shillingstone r. station; and has a post office under Salisbury.
The parish includes also the tythings of Bedcester and Hartgrove; and bears the name of Fontmell Magna. Acres, 2, 853. Real property, with Compton Abbas, £4, 796. Rated property of F. alone, £3, 338. Pop., 875. Houses, 189. The property is divided among a few.
The living is a rectory and a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of West Orchard, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £440. Patron, George Carr Glyn, Esq. The church was built in 1864, on the site of a previous edifice; is in the later English style, after designs by Mr. Evans; and is richly ornamented.
There is a Wesleyan chapel. The sub-district contains nine parishes. Acres, 14, 944. Pop., 3, 358. Houses, 745.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Marriage Allegations
The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.
BISHOP, Joseph, of Fontmell, co. Dorset, miller, a minor, with c. of his parents, Samuel & Martha Bishop, of the s., & Maria Lane, of Eling, a minor, with c. of her p., John and Betty Lane, of the s., at E., 14 Dec., 1808.
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Shaftsbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Shaftesbury
- Poor Law Union: Shaftesbury
- Hundred: Sixpenny Hadley
- Province: Canterbury