Shapwick Dorset Family History Guide
Shapwick is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Alternative names: Shapwicke
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1654
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Tarrant Rushton
- Spetisbury
- Wimborne Minster
- Tarrant Crawford
- Witchampton
- Tarrant Keynston
- Sturminster Marshall
- Moor Crichel
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SHAPWICK, a parish, with a village, in Wimborne district, Dorset; on the river Stour, 2¼ miles S E of Spetisbury r. station, and 4½ SSE of Blandford. It has a post-office under Bland ford. Acres, 3, 670. Real property, £4, 256. Pop., 446. Houses, 89. The manor belongs to E. G. Banks, Esq. A Carthusian priory, a cell to Sheen in Surrey, was founded here in 1414. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £379. Patron, E. G. Banks, Esq. The church is ancient. There is a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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.
KERSLEY, Henry, of Shapwick, co. Dorset, farmer, 21, b., & Elizabeth Dowling, of Leckford, 21, sp., at L., 15 July, 1816. Robert Dowling, of Goodworth Clatford, miller, bondsman.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Maps
OS Grid Reference: ST9380802061 (all-numeric format: 393809 102061)
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Wimborne
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pimperne
- Poor Law Union: Wimborne and Cranborne
- Hundred: Badbury
- Province: Canterbury