Tarrant Crawford, Dorset Family History Guide

Tarrant Crawford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Alternative names: Preston Crawford, Tarrant Crawford with Preston

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1597
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1732

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TARRANT-CRAWFORD, a parish in Blandford district, Dorset; 1¼ mile ENE of Spetisbury r. station, and 3¼ SSE of Blandford. Post town, Blandford. Acres, 600. Real property, £750. Pop., 67. Houses, 15. A Cistertian nunnery was founded here in the time of Richard I.; was the burial-place of Joan, daughter of King John, and Joan, queen of Alexander II.; and was given, at the dissolution, to the Wyatts. The living is a donative in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £50. Patron, J. S. Drax, Esq. Bishop Poore, of the 13th century, was a native.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

CRAWFORD, TARRANT (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Blandford, hundred of Badbury, Wimborne division of Dorset, 4 miles (S. E. by E.) from Blandford; containing, with the tything of Preston, 67 inhabitants, and comprising about 1000 acres. The living is a donative; net income, £50; patron and impropriator, J. S. W. S. E. Drax, Esq. Richard Poor, successively Bishop of Chichester, Salisbury, and Durham, founded an abbey of Cistercian nuns, in honour of the blessed Virgin and All Saints, about 1230; at the Dissolution its revenue was estimated at £239. 11. 10.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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Administration

County: Dorset
Civil Registration District: Blandford
Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
Diocese: Salisbury
Rural Deanery: Pimperne
Poor Law Union: Blandford
Hundred: Badbury
Province: Canterbury