Melcombe Horsey Dorset Family History Guide
Melcombe Horsey is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Higher Melcombe and Hartsfoot Lane.
Alternative names: Melcombe Bingham
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1690
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MELCOMBE-HORSEY, a parish in Dorchester district, Dorset; 8½ miles WSW of Blandford r. station, and 9½ NE by N of Dorchester. It contains part of the hamlet of Hartsfoot-Lane; and has a post office, of the name of Melcombe-Bingham, under Dorchester. Acres, 2,151. Real property, £1,988. Pop., 208. Houses, 43. The property is divided among a few.
The manor belongs to Lord Rivers. Melcombe-Bingham belonged to the Turnbervilles; passed to the Binghams; and was the birthplace of Bishop Bingham, who died in 1246,-Sir Richard Bingham, who was at the siege of St. Quintin, and George Bingham, the theologian. Nettlecombe camp occupies a square space of 20 acres, and commands a fine view.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £300. Patron, Lord Rivers. The church has a low tower, and is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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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.
BINGHAM’S MELCOMBE
Charles W. Bingham, rector M.A., rural dean, J.P.
James J. Farquharson, jun., J.P.
V.B. Watts, farmer, Melcombe Horsey
Levi Groves, farmer, Newton
Mary Anne Crump, schoolmistress
A.C. Campbell, Dorchester
M. Bingham
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: Dorchester
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Whitchurch
- Poor Law Union: Cerne
- Hundred: Whiteway
- Province: Canterbury