Winterbourne Monkton Dorset Family History Guide

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

Alternative names: Monkton, Winterborne Monckton, Winterborne Monkton

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1754
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Presbyterian 

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WINTERBOURNE-MONKTON, a parish in Dorchester district, Dorset; 1¾ mile SSW of Dorchester r. station. Post town, Dorchester. Acres, 631. Real property, £910. Pop., 86. Houses, 18. An alien priory, a cell to Cluny abbey, was founded here in the time of King John. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £157. Patron, the Earl of Ilchester. The church is good.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Dorset, Winterborne-Monkton – Church records ( 1 )
Parish registers for Winterborne-Monkton, 1756-1996
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Winterbourne-Monkton (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

England, Dorset, Winterborne-Monkton – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Overseers’ accounts, 1729-1836
Author: Winterborne-Monkton (Dorset)

Administration

  • County: Dorset
  • Civil Registration District: Dorchester
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Dorchester
  • Poor Law Union: Dorchester
  • Hundred: Culliford Tree
  • Province: Canterbury