Winterbourne St Martin, Dorset Family History Guide
Winterbourne St Martin is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Winterborne Ashton.
Alternative names: Martinstown, St Martin Winterbourne, Winterborne St Martin
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1732
Nonconformists include: Presbyterian and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WINTERBOURNE-ST. MARTIN, a parish, with Martinstown village and Ashton tything, in Dorchester district, Dorset; 3 miles W by S of Dorchester r. station. It has a post-office, of the name of Martinstown, under Dorchester; and it formerly had a weekly market, and still has a fair on St. Martin’s day. Acres, 3,503. Real property, £3,724. Pop., 458. Houses, 90. Maiden Castle, noticed in our article on Dorchester, is here; and many tumuli are on Four-Barrow hill and Clandon. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £73. Patron, the Bishop of S. There are a national school, and charities £33.
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: Dorchester
- Poor Law Union: Dorchester
- Hundred: George
- Province: Canterbury