Todbere, Dorset Family History Guide

Updated onOctober 17, 2024

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Todbere is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Alternative names: Todber

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1754
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include:

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Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TODBERE, a parish in Shaftesbury district, Dorset; 3¾ miles N by E of Sturminster r. station. Post town, Shaftesbury, under Salisbury. Acres, 384. Rated property, £638. Pop., 122. Houses, 25. The living is a rectory, annexed to Stower-Provost. The church is tolerable.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

TODBERE, a parish, in the union of Shaftesbury, hundred of Redlane, Sturminster division of Dorset, 4½ miles (S. W. by W.) from Shaftesbury; containing 138 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, united in 1746 to that of Stower-Provost, and valued in the king’s books at £5. 19. 4.: the tithes have been commuted for £105, and the glebe contains 23 acres. The church was considered a chapel to Gillingham till 1434, when it was made parochial, though the inhabitants, by ancient custom, bury at Stower.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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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: Redland
Province: Canterbury