Mappowder Dorset Family History Guide
Mappowder is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1650
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MAPPOWDER, a parish in Dorchester district, Dorset; 6 miles NE by E of Cerne-Abbas, and 6 SW of Sturminster-Newton r. station. Post town, Blandford. Acres, 1,887. Real property, £2,538. Pop., 238. Houses, 48. The property is chiefly in one estate. Stone is quarried. The parish is a meet for the Blackmoor Vale harriers.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £390. Patron, G. D. W. Digby, Esq. The church is a fine edifice, with a tower; was about to be restored in the summer of 1867; and contains a Norman font, an effigies of a crusader, and monuments of the Cokers. John Coker, author of the “Survey of Dorset, ”was a native.
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: Dorchester
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Whitchurch
- Poor Law Union: Cerne
- Hundred: Buckland Newton
- Province: Canterbury