Catherston Leweston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Alternative names: Catherston Lewston, Chatherston Lewston
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1837
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1837
Nonconformists include:
Adjacent Parishes
- Charmouth
- Stanton St Gabriel
- Monkton Wyld
- Wootton Fitzpaine
- Whitchurch Canonicorum
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CATHERSTON-LEWSTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Bridport, hundred of WhitchurchCanonicorum, Bridport division of Dorset, 2¾ miles (N. E.) from Lyme-Regis; containing 36 inhabitants. This place was the residence of a branch of the Wadhams, by one of whom, Nicholas Wadham, and Dorothy his wife, Wadham College, Oxford, was founded. The parish is situated on the great road from London to Plymouth, adjoining the post-town of Charmouth, and comprises by measurement 248 acres. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £2. 16. 10½.; net income, £67; patrons, the Executors of Jones Ross, Esq. The church, rebuilt lately by subscription of the rector and his friends, is a neat small edifice.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Census
Census returns for Catherston-Leweston, 1841-1891
Church Records
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Bridport
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Bridport
- Poor Law Union: Bridport
- Hundred: Whitchurch Canonicorum
- Province: Canterbury