Longfleet Dorset Family History Guide
Longfleet is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Dorset, created in 1837 from Great Canford Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Creekmoor, Oakdale, Okedale, and Canford Heath.
Alternative names: Canford Magna St Mary
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1833
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1847
Nonconformists include: Methodist
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LONGFLEET, a tything and a chapelry in CanfordMagua parish, Dorset. The tything lies averagely 1 mile NNE of Poole town and r. station; and includes part of the town and of the harbour. Post town, Poole. Acres, 1,458; of which 285 are water. Real property, £4,635. Pop. in 1851,1,287; in 1861,1,417. Houses, 288.
The Poole workhouse is here; and, at the census of 1861, had 102 inmates. The manor belongs to Sir J. B. Guest, Bart. The chapelry is more extensive than the tything, and was constituted in 1836. Pop., 1,598. Houses, 317.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £85. Patron, Sir J. B. Guest, Bart. The church is recent, and was built chiefly at the expense of Lord de Mauley. There is a national school.
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: Poole
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Whitchurch
- Poor Law Union: Poole
- Hundred: Cogdean
- Province: Canterbury