Broadwindsor Dorset Family History Guide

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Broadwindsor is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Other places in the parish include: Littlewinsor, Little Winsor, Drimpton, Dibberford, Deberford, Childhay, Blackdown, Venn, and Netherhay.

Alternative names: Broadwinsor

Parish church: St. John the Baptist

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1562
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Presbyterian, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Broadwindsor Parish Records

Broadwindsor Poor Law Apprenticeship Records, 1623-1898

Historical Directories

Kelly’s Directory of the Leather Trades 1880

BROAD WINDSOR

Boot & Shoe Makers

Holt Thomas

Smith William

Saddler & Harness Maker

Kerslake Joseph 

An Address from the County of Dorset on the Elementary Education Bill, May 9 1870

To the Right Honourable The EARL de GREY and RIPON President of Her Majesty’s Privy Council and To the Right Honourable W. E. FORSTER MP Vice President

We the undersigned Clergy and Laity of the Archdeaconry and County of Dorset, accepting the principle of the Elementary Education Bill now before Parliament, by which in existing Schools perfect liberty of Religious Teaching is guaranteed to the Managers, together with perfect liberty of withdrawal from such Teaching to the Parents of the Children, do earnestly deprecate any Alteration in the Bill which may affect such principle.

At the same time we are prepared to concede, if necessary, the substitution for the so-called Conscience Clause, of an Enactment which shall confine the Teaching of the Formularies of any Denomination to the first part of the School Hours.

BROADWINSOR

F. Parham, M.A., clerk, curate
Charles Jean Stockdale, gentleman
Alfred Edsall, gentleman
Charles Edwards, master of endowed school, Blackdown
William Churchill
Robert Bailey
William Bailey
Richard Dening
Joel Studley, schoolmaster
John Wright, yeoman
James Wright, yeoman
Edward Wright, yeoman
John Harris
Robert Taylor, yeoman

Source: An Address from the County of Dorset on the Elementary Education Bill, May 9 1870 by Dorset. Published by H. Spicer, Dorset County Chronicle Office, 1870.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BROADWINSOR, a village and a parish in Beaminster district, Dorset. The village stands 3 miles WNW of Beaminster, and 5 S of Crewkerne r. station; and has a post-office under Bridport, and a fair on Trinity Monday. The parish includes also the tythings of Childhay, Dibberford, Drimpton, and Little Winsor. Acres, 6,214. Real property, £11,810. Pop., 1,538. Houses, 311.

The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Blackdown, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £558. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is ancient, and has a tower. There are an Independent chapel; an endowed school, with £23; and other charities, with £18. Thomas Fuller, author of the “History of the Holy War,” was vicar.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BROADWINSOR (St. John the Baptist), a parish and liberty, in the union of Beaminster, Bridport division of Dorset, 3 miles (W. by N.) from Beaminster; containing, with Little Winsor, which is in Redhone hundred, 1661 inhabitants. It comprises by admeasurement 6215 acres, of which 1222 are arable, 4579 meadow and pasture, and 292 wood and orchards.

The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £15. 8. 9., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Salisbury: the tithes have been commuted for £1282. 10., of which £750 are paid to the vicar, who has a glebehouse, and 9 acres of land; the impropriators have a glebe of 85 acres. A chapel of ease was erected at Blackdown in 1840, in the early English style, and dedicated to the Holy Trinity; it is a neat and substantial building, and will accommodate 300 persons.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Dorset
  • Civil Registration District: Beaminster
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Bridport
  • Poor Law Union: Beaminster
  • Hundred: Broadwinsor Liberty
  • Province: Canterbury