Monkton Wyld Dorset Family History Guide
Monkton Wyld is an Ecclesiastical Parish partly in Devon and partly in Dorset; Created in 1850 from Whitchurch Canonicorum Ancient Parish (Dorset) and Uplyme Ancient Parish (Devon).
Alternative names: Monckton Wyld, Whitchurch Canonicorum St Andrew
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1851
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1851
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Charmouth
- Lyme Regis
- Catherston Leweston
- Axminster Devon
- Monkton Wyld
- Wootton Fitzpaine
- Whitchurch Canonicorum
- Uplyme Devon
- Hawkchurch
Parish History
Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895
Monkton, Wyld, an ecclesiastical parish in Dorsetshire, 4 miles from Axminster station on the L. & S.W.R. Post town, Charmouth. Population, 220.
For civil purposes it is considered as one parish with Wotton Fitzpaine. It sends three members to Wotton parish council. Viscount Bridport is lord of the manor.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £184 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is a handsome building of flint in the Pointed style, with a very richly decorated interior; it was enlarged in 1887.
Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Axminster; Bridport
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Bridport
- Poor Law Union: Bridport
- Hundred: Whitchurch Canonicorum
- Province: Canterbury