Steeple Dorset Family History Guide
Steeple is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Creech Grange and West Creech.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1548
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Society of Friends/Quaker and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STEEPLE, a parish, with S. village and West Creech hamlet, in Wareham district, Dorset; near the coast, 5 miles S by W of Wareham r. station. Post town, Wareham. Acres, 3,362. Rated property, £1,498. Pop., 262. Houses, 63. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, united with Tyneham, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £382. Patron, the Rev. N. Bond. 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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Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Wareham
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Dorchester
- Poor Law Union: Wareham and Purbeck
- Hundred: Hasilor
- Province: Canterbury