Horton Dorset Family History Guide
Horton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset. Woodlands is a chapelry of Horton.
Other places in the parish include: Horton Heath and Haythorn.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1563
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1734
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Woodlands
- Chalbury
- Wimborne Minster
- Cranborne with Boveridge
- Gussage All Saints
- Wimborne St Giles
- Moor Crichel
- Edmondsham
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HORTON, a village and a parish in Wimborne district, Dorset. The village stands 4½ miles SSW of Cranborne, and 6 NNE of Wimborne r. station; and has a post office under Wimborne.
The parish comprises 2, 740 acres. Real property, £2, 201. Pop., 431. Houses, 95. The manor belongs to the Earl of Shaftesbury. Horton Park is a chief residence. A lofty brick tower, erected by Mr. Sturt of More-Critchell about the beginning of the present century, stands on a hill near the village, and command fine views of the surrounding country and the Isle of Wight. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Sherborne abbey, was founded at Horton, in 970, by Earl Orgar. A circular trench, several barrows, and traces of a chapel are here.
The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Woodlands, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £150. Patron, the Earl of Shaftesbury. The church was rebuilt in 1720; and is a peculiarly shaped structure, with a spire.
There is a free school.
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.
DRAPER, James Northover, of Twyford, 30, b., & Jane Hart, of Horton, co. Dorset,
27, sp., at T., 5 Oct., 1833. Aff.
Hart, George, of Horton, co. Dorset, husbandman, & Elizabeth Burt, of West Parley, co. Dorset, w., at Ellingham, 3 June, 1722.
Parish Records
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Directories
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.
HORTON
Thomas Stringer, clerk in holy orders
Joseph Atkins, church warden
Frederick James, grocer
George James, grocer’s assistant
Isaac Kail, carpenter
James Bush, draper
Elizabeth M. Osbaldstone, schoolmistress
John Arnold Atkins, miller
Joseph Lockyer, maltster
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.
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Wimborne
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pimperne
- Poor Law Union: Wimborne and Cranborne
- Hundred: Badbury
- Province: Canterbury