Over Compton Dorset Family History Guide
Over Compton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1726
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1579
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Presbyterian.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
COMPTON (Over), a parish in Sherborne district, Dorset; at the boundary with Wilts, 2½ miles ENE of Yeovil r. station, and 3½ W by N of Sherborne. Post town, Compton, under Sherborne.
Acres, 788. Real property, £1, 983. Pop., 150. Houses, 29. The property is all in one estate. Over Compton House is the seat of John Goodden, Esq.
The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Nether Compton, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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OS Grid Reference: ST5897416986 (all-numeric format: 358974 116986)
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Sherborne
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – None, Post-1846 – Shaftesbury
- Poor Law Union: Sherborne
- Hundred: Sherborne
- Province: Canterbury