Stour Provost, Dorset Family History Guide

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Stour Provost is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Other places in the parish include: Stour Row.

Alternative names: Stower Provost

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1701
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic.

Adjacent Parishes

Stour Provost Parish Records

Stour Provost Poor Law Apprenticeship Records, 1623-1898

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STOWER-PROVOST, a parish in Shaftesbury district, Dorset; 3½ miles SSW of Gillingham r. station. Post town, Gillingham, under Bath. Acres, 2,777. Rated property, £4,868. Pop., 889. Houses, 195. The property is divided among a few. A nunnery, or cell to St. Leger de Pratellis in Normandy, was founded here in the time of King John; and was given to King’s college, Cambridge. The living is a rectory, united with Todbere, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £655. Patron, King’s College, Cambridge. The church is good. There is a slightly endowed school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

  • County: Dorset
  • Civil Registration District: Shaftsbury
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Shaftesbury
  • Poor Law Union: Shaftesbury
  • Hundred: Stour Provost Liberty
  • Province: Canterbury