Winterbourne Abbas Dorset Family History Guide
Winterbourne Abbas is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Alternative names: Winterborne Abbas
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1754
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Presbyterian
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WINTERBORNE-ABBAS, a parish, with a village, in Dorchester district, Dorset; 4½ miles W of Dorchester r. station. It has a post-office under Dorchester, and an inn. Acres, 1,500. Real property, £1,571. Pop., 205. Houses, 40. The property is divided among a few.
There are a Druidical circle and numerous barrows. The name Winterborne arose to this parish and to others from the periodicity of streams, issuing from chalk formations, disappearing in summer, and flowing copiously in winter.
The living is a rectory, united with W.-Steepleton, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £435. Patron, Lincoln College, Oxford. The church is tolerable. Bishop Ironside was rector.
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: Dorchester
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Bridport
- Poor Law Union: Dorchester
- Hundred: Eggerton
- Province: Canterbury