Holnest Dorset Family History Guide

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Holnest is a chapelry of Long Burton Ancient Parish in Dorset.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1589
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1603

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Holnest Parish Registers

The Registers of Holnest, Dorset 1589 to 1812 by Charles Herbert Mayo Introduction, Registers, Index Publisher: Edw. Alex Fry; George Samuel Fry Date of publication: 1894 – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HOLNEST, a parish in Sherborne district, Dorset; 4 miles E of Yetminster r. station, and 4¾ S by E of Sherborne. Post town, Long Burton, under Sherborne. Acres, 2, 062. Real property, £2, 274. Pop., 147. Houses, 29. Holnest Lodge is a chief residence. The parish is a meet for the Charborough hounds. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Long Burton, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church has an embattled tower. There is a national school.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

HOLNEST (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Sherborne, Sherborne division of Dorset, 4¾ miles (S. by E.) from Sherborne; containing 139 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the road from Bath to Weymouth, comprises about 2000 acres. Most of the females are employed in glove making at their own dwellings. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Long Burton: the great tithes of Holnest have been commuted for £140, and the small for £108; the incumbent has also a glebe of 11 acres. The church is a handsome structure in the later English style of architecture, with a square embattled tower.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Dorset, Holnest – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Holnest, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Dorset, Holnest – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Holnest, 1603-1866
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Holnest (Dorsetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts, 1850-1916
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Holnest (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Holnest, 1589-1996
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Holnest (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

The registers of Holnest, Dorset, from 1589 to 1812
Author: Mayo, Charles Herbert, 1845-1929

England, Dorset, Holnest – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Holnest, Dorset, England

England, Dorset, Holnest – History ( 1 )
Spotlight in Holnest and Lewiston
Author: Nineham, Alan

England, Dorset, Holnest – Land and property ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1842, 1890-1898
Author: Holnest (Dorset)

England, Dorset, Holnest – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1842, 1890-1898
Author: Holnest (Dorset)

England, Dorset, Holnest – Taxation ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1842, 1890-1898
Author: Holnest (Dorset)

Administration

  • County: Dorset
  • Civil Registration District: Sherborne
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Shaftesbury
  • Poor Law Union: Sherborne
  • Hundred: Sherborne
  • Province: Canterbury