Watercombe Dorset Family History Guide

Watercombe is an extra-parochial place.

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Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Warmwell
• Woodsford
• Owermoigne
• Poxwell

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WATERCOMBE, an extra-parochial tract in Weymouth district, Dorset; 5½ miles SE of Dorchester. Pop., 37. Houses, 7.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Dorset, Watercombe – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Watercombe, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

Administration

• County: Dorset
• Civil Registration District: Weymouth
• Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
• Diocese: Not Applicable
• Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
• Poor Law Union: Dorchester
• Hundred: Winfrith
• Province: Canterbury