Bournemouth Hampshire Family History Guide
Bournemouth St Peter is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Hampshire, created in 1845 from Holdenhurst chapelry and part of Christchurch Ancient Parish.
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- Parish registers: 1845
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BOURNEMOUTH, a watering-place in Christchurch parish, and two chapelries in Christchurch and Holdenhurst parishes, Hants. The watering-place stands at the mouth of the Bourne rivulet, on Poole-bay, 4 miles WSW of Christchurch r. station, and 5 E of Poole.
It has a head post office; and public conveyances run to it from Poole and Christchurch. It is of recent origin; has no street; and includes villas, lodging-houses, fine hotels, a sanatorium, baths, a small infirmary of 1869, two churches, three dissenting chapels, and a library and reading room.
The sanatorium is an Italian edifice, with accommodation for 40 patients.
St. Peter’s church was built in 1844; is in the early decorated style; and was altered and greatly enlarged in 1864. The churchyard contains the remains of Godwin, the novelist, Mrs. Godwin, better known as Mary Wolstonecraft, author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,”, and Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley, widow of the poet Shelley.
The beach is one of the best in England; the environs comprise chines, woods, open heaths, and variety of walks and drives; and the views, inland, and to Purbeck and the Isle of Wight, are very fine.
A local newspaper is published every Saturday.
The chapelries were constituted in 1845 and 1867. Pop., 1,940 and 350.
The livings are vicarages in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £60 and £150. Patrons, Sir G. Gervis, Bart., and Trustees.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Hampshire
- Civil Registration District: Christchurch
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
- Diocese: Winchester
- Rural Deanery: Fordingbridge
- Poor Law Union: Bournemouth and Christchurch
- Hundred: Westover Liberty
- Province: Canterbury