Wyke Regis Dorset Family History Guide
Wyke Regis is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Alternative names: Weymouth All Saints
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1676
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Christians, Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WYKE-REGIS, a village and a parish in Weymouth district, Dorset. The village stands on an eminence, adjacent to the coast, 2 miles WSW of Weymouth r. station; commands a fine view of Portland island and bay; and has a post-office under Weymouth.
The parish is a liberty, called W.-R.-and-Elwell. Acres, 2,062; of which 440 are water. Real property, £11,243; of which £180 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 1,898; in 1861, 2,025. Houses, 391. The property is much subdivided. West Hill House, Belfield house, and West Down Lodge are chief residences.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £623. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is the mother church of Weymouth, serves as a landmark to mariners, and is of the 15th century. There are a partially endowed national school, and charities £5.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Flying Fish On The Coast Of Dorset
The following paragraph occurred in the Standard of August 11th last.
“The intensely hot weather of the past month is probably responsible for the capture of a flying fish on the Dorset coast, at the little village of Wyke Regis, just outside Weymouth. The specimen was taken by a fisherman named T. Hatcher in a mackerel seine. In the most recent treatise, ” British Salt Water Fish,” by F. G. Aflalo, it is stated “the flying fish (Exoccetus volitans) is doubtfully included with a second species in ‘ Day’s British Fishes,’ but the evidence of their presence alive on our coasts is too unreliable to make a detailed description desirable.”
The fish is a very good specimen, its total length being 11.¼in. From the nose to the top of the upper caudal fin it measures 10½in. The length of the pectoral fins is 6½in. Another rare visitor to English waters has been caught in a similar manner by Mr. Hunter, another fisherman of Weymouth. This is a file or trigger fish (Balistes capriscus). There are only two previous records of the fish having been caught on the Dorset coast, and they were taken at about the same place as the present specimen in the years 1873 and 1905.”
Source: Notes & queries for Somerset and Dorset Vol. XII September 1911
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Weymouth
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Dorchester
- Poor Law Union: Weymouth
- Hundred: Wyke Regis and Elwell Liberty
- Province: Canterbury