Netherbury Dorset Family History Guide

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Netherbury is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Other places in the parish include: Bowood, Waytown, Salway Ash, North Bowood, Loscombe, and Ashe.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1592
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1585

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish Registers

Marriage Allegations

The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.

EDWARDS, James, of Netherbury, co. Dorset, labourer, & Sarah Hunt, of Shorwell, 26, sp., 23 Aug., 1733.

Netherbury Parish Records

Netherbury Poor Law Apprenticeship Records, 1623-1898

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NETHERBURY, a tything, a parish, and a sub-district, in Beaminster district, Dorset. The tything lies on the river Brit, 1½ mile S SW of Beaminster, and 4¼ NW of Poorstock r. station; and has a post-office under Bridport. The parish contains also the tythings of Ashe, Bowood, and Melplash, and part of the hamlet of Loscombe. Acres, 6, 225. Real property, £15, 245. Pop. in 1851, 2,066; in 1861, 1,875. Houses, 419. The decrease of pop. was caused mainly by a decline in the flax and hemp trade. The property is much subdivided.

The manor-house, formerly the seat of the More family, is now a farm-house. Strode House and Parnham House are chief residences. The land is very fertile; and is watered by numerous stream-lets, traversing wooded ravines. A considerable area is occupied by cider orchards. Limestone, very rich in fossils, is quarried. Two flax mills were long in operation; and there is an iron foundry.

The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Ashe, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £400. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is later English, in good condition, with a tower; and the chancel was recently restored, and contains a monument to one of the More family.

The p. curacy of Melplash is a separate benefice. There was formerly a chapel of ease at Mangerton. There are several dissenting chapels, a mixed national school, a grammar-school with £140 a year from endowment, and charities £64. The sub-district contains also six other parishes. Acres, 20, 366. Pop., 4, 971. Houses, 1,051.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

  • County: Dorset
  • Civil Registration District: Beaminster
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Netherbury in Ecclesia
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – None, Post-1846 – Bridport
  • Poor Law Union: Beaminster
  • Hundred: Beaminster
  • Province: Canterbury