Kingston Dorset Family History Guide
Kingston is a chapelry of Corfe Castle Ancient Parish in Dorset.
Alternative names: Corfe Castle St James
Parish church: St. Andrew
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1865
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1877
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KINGSTON, a village in Corfe-Castle parish, Dorset; 1½ mile S by W of Corfe-Castle town. It has a post-office under Wareham, and a chapel of ease. Encombe House, the seat of Lord Eldon, is in the southwestern vicinity.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
KINGSTON, or Kinson, a district chapelry, in the parish of Canford-Magna, union of Poole, hundred of Cogdean, Wimborne division of Dorset, 1¾ mile (S.) from Corfe-Castle; containing 846 inhabitants. The river Stour runs on the northern side of the chapelry. A rent-charge of £403. 10. has been awarded as a commutation of the impropriate tithes, and one of £380 in lieu of the vicarial; there is a glebe of 19 acres. The chapel, dedicated to St. Andrew, was built in 1833, and is a handsome edifice, containing the remains of Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, governor of Malta.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Wareham
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Corfe Castle
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – None, Post-1846 – Dorchester
- Poor Law Union: Wareham and Purbeck
- Hundred: Corfe Castle
- Province: Canterbury