Stalbridge Dorset Family History Guide
Stalbridge is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Stalbridge Weston, Thornhill, Weston, Gommershay, and Gomershay.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1690
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1737
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Fifehead Magdalen
- Purse Caundle
- Stourton Caundle
- Sturminster Newton
- Henstridge Somerset
- Marnhull
- Lydlinch
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STALBRIDGE, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Sturminster district, Dorset. The town stands on an affluent of the river Stour, adjacent to the Somerset and Dorset railway, 6 miles E by N of Sherborne.
It was known, at Domesday, as Staplebridge; contains a beautiful ancient cross, about 30 feet high; and has a post-office under Blandford, a r. station with telegraph, an inn, a partially restored ancient church, Independent and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, a fortnightly market on Monday, and fairs on 6 May and 4 Sept.
The parish includes three tythings, and comprises 5,681 acres. Real property, £12,179; of which £50 are in quarries. Pop., 1,929. Houses, 411. The manor belonged to Sherborne abbey; passed to the Seymours, the Audleys, the Boyles, and the Walters; and belongs now to the Marquis of Westminster. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £888. Patron, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
The sub-district contains six parishes. Acres, 15,678. Pop. 4,422. Houses, 967.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Sturminster
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Shaftesbury
- Poor Law Union: Sturminster
- Hundred: Brownshall
- Province: Canterbury