Winterbourne Clenstone Dorset Family History Guide

Winterbourne Clenstone is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Alternative names: Clenstone Winterborne, Winterborne Chenstone, Winterborne Clenston, Winterborne Clenstone, Winterborne Phillopston, Winterborne St Nicholas

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1684
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Presbyterian 

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WINTERBORNE-CLENSTONE, a parish in Blandford district, Dorset; 4 miles SW of Blandford r. station-Post town, Blandford. Acres, 1,406. Real property, £1,350. Pop., 106. Houses, 20. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £160. Patrons, alternately the Pleydelland the Damer families. Three churches formerly were here; and the present church was rebuilt in 1840.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Dorset, Winterborne-Clenstone – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Winterborne-Clenstone., 1731-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Winterborne-Clenstone (Dorsetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts, 1836-1870
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Winterborne-Clenstone (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Winterborne-Clenstone, 1684-1992
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Winterborne-Clenstone (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

England, Dorset, Winterborne-Clenstone – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Overseers of the poor account books, 1836-1879
Author: Winterborne-Clenstone (Dorset)

Administration

  • County: Dorset
  • Civil Registration District: Blandford
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Whitchurch
  • Poor Law Union: Blandford
  • Hundred: Coombs Ditch
  • Province: Canterbury