Powerstock with West Milton Dorset Family History Guide
Powerstock with West Milton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Nettlecombe, Nettlescombe, South Poorton, Powerstock St Mary Magdalene, West Milton, Mappercombe, Loscombe, and South Poorton cum Loscombe.
Alternative names: Poorstock, Witherstone, Powerstock
Parish church:
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Powerstock with West Milton
- Parish registers: 1568
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1732
West Milton
- Parish registers: 1837
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Powerstock
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
POORSTOCK, a village and a parish in Beaminster district, Dorset. The village stands on an affluent of the river Brit, near the Bridport railway, 4 miles NE of Bridport; was once a market-town; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Brid port.
The parish includes the tythings of West Milton, Mappercombe, Nettlescombe, South Poorton, Witherston, and part of Loscombe; and is a liberty. Acres, 4,078. Rated property, £4, 639. Pop., 1,067. Houses, 229. The property is subdivided.
The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of West Milton, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £195. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. The church was rebuilt in 1866, at a cost of more than £15,000; is in the style of the 14th and 15th centuries; and consists of nave, aisles, transept, chancel, and porch, with a tower 106 feet high. There is a parochial school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
West Milton
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MILTON (WEST), a chapelry in Poorstock parish, Dorset; on the river Asker, 1½ mile W by N of Poorstock r. station, and 3½ NE by N of Bridport. Post town, Poorstock, under Bridport. Rated property, about £1,000. Pop., 244. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Poorstock, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is ancient.
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: Beaminster
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Bridport
- Poor Law Union: Beaminster
- Hundred: Eggerton; Poorstock Liberty
- Province: Canterbury