Frome St Quintin Dorset Family History Guide
Frome St Quintin is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset. Evershot is a chapelry of Frome St Quintin.
Alternative names: Froome St Quintin, Little Frome, St Quentin Frome
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1661
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
FROOME-ST. QUINTIN, a parish in Dorchester district, Dorset; on the river Frome, and on the Dorchester and Yeovil railway, adjacent to the Roman road from Dorchester, near Evershot r. station, 5 miles WNW of Cerne-Abbas. Post town, Evershot, under Dorchester. Acres, 1, 025. Real property, £1, 410. Pop., 129 Houses, 30.
The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged once to the St. Quintins. Caldwell here, now a farm, was formerly a chapelry.
The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Evershot, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £324. Patron, the Earl of Ilchester. 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: Dorchester
- Probate Court: Court of the Manor and Liberty of Frampton
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Whitchurch
- Poor Law Union: Cerne
- Hundred: Tollerford
- Province: Canterbury