Buckhorn Weston, Dorset Family History Guide
Buckhorn Weston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1677
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist
Adjacent Parishes
- Cucklington, Somerset
- Gillingham
- Abbas Combe, Somerset
- Kington Magna
- Wincanton, Somerset
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BUCKHORN-WESTON, a parish, in the union of Wincanton, hundred of Redlane, Shaston division of Dorset, 8 miles (W. by N.) from Shaftesbury; containing 460 inhabitants. It comprises by computation 1700 acres: the soil is mostly clay, but fertile, and the meadows on the banks of the river Cale are luxuriantly rich. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £10. 1. 3., and in the patronage of Lady Stapleton: the tithes have been commuted for £310, and the glebe comprises 63 acres. In the chancel of the church is an ancient statue, supposed to be that of the father-in-law of Gascoigne, lord chief justice in the reigns of Henry IV. and V.; the gallery of the church is said to have been painted by Sir James Thornhill.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Census
Census returns for Buckhorn-Weston, 1841-1891
Church Records
Churchwardens’ accounts Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Buckhorn-Weston (Dorsetshire)
Poorhouses & Poor Law
Surveyors’ accounts, 1756-1838, 1853-1859 Author: Buckhorn-Weston (Dorset)
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Wincanton
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Shaftesbury
- Poor Law Union: Wincanton
- Hundred: Redland
- Province: Canterbury