North Wootton Dorset Family History Guide
North Wootton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Dorset, created in 1812 from a chapelry in Sherborne Ancient Parish.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1585
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WOOTTON (North), a parish in Sherborne district, Dorset; 1½ mile SSE of Sherborne r. station. Post town, Sherborne. Acres, 619. Real property, £767. Pop., 76. Houses, 17. The manor belongs to G. D. W. Digby, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £51. Patron, G. D. W. Digby, Esq. The church is tolerable.
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: Sherborne
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Shaftesbury
- Poor Law Union: Sherborne
- Hundred: Sherborne
- Province: Canterbury