Woodlands Dorset Family History Guide
Woodlands is a chapelry of Horton Ancient Parish in Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Knowlton.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: None
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WOODLANDS, a parish in Wimborne district, Dorset; 4½ miles WNW of Ringwood r. station. Post town, Horton, under Wimborne. Acres, 2,561. Real property, £2,078. Pop., 495. Houses, 93. The property belongs to the Earl of Shaftesbury. The Duke of Monmouth, after the battle of Sedgemoor, was taken here in a ditch. The living is a p. curacy annexed to Horton. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Marriage Allegations
The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.
HASKEL, John, of Woodlands, co. Dorset, husbandman, & Mary Lawrence, of the s.,
at Ellingham, 9 Aug., 1727.
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Wimborne
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pimperne
- Poor Law Union: Wimborne and Cranborne
- Hundred: Knowlton
- Province: Canterbury