Halstock Dorset Family History Guide
Halstock is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1693
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1579
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Adjacent Parishes
- Sutton Bingham, Somerset
- Melbury Osmond
- South Perrot
- Corscombe
- Hardington Mandeville, Somerset
- Pendomer, Somerset
- East Coker, Somerset
- Chedington
- East Chelborough
- Closworth, Somerset
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HALSTOCK, a village and a parish in Beaminster district, and a liberty in Bridport division, Dorset. The village stands near the boundary with Somerset, 5½ miles SSW of Yeovil r. station, and 6 NE by N of Beaminster; and it has a post office under Yeovil.
The parish comprises 3,181 acres. Real property, with Benville, Chelborongh, and Corscombe, £12,104. Rated property of H. alone, £1,676. Pop., 532. Houses, 117. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to Lord Abinger.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £200. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church was rebuilt in 1846, and has a tower. Charities, £10. The liberty is conterminate with the parish.
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: Beaminster
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Lyme Regis and Halstock
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – None, Post-1846 – Shaftesbury
- Poor Law Union: Beaminster
- Hundred: Halstock Liberty
- Province: Canterbury