Chideock Dorset Family History Guide
Chideock is a chapelry of Whitchurch Canonicorum Ancient Parish in Dorset.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Giles
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1654
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHIDEOCK, a parish in Bridport district, Dorset; on the coast, 2½ miles W of Bridport. It has a post office under Bridport town and r. station. Acres, 2, 052; of which 70 are water. Pop., 794. Houses, 187. The property is divided among a few. Chideock House is the seat of the Welds. A Roman road crosses the parish westwards; and a streamlet traverses a deep valley southward to the sea, near Down Cliffs. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Whitchurch-Canoni-curum, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is pretty good; and there are chapels for Baptists and Roman Catholics.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CHIDEOCK (St. Giles), a parish, in the union of Bridport, hundred of Whitchurch-Canonicorum, Bridport division of Dorset, 2¾ miles (W.) from Bridport; containing 826 inhabitants. It is bounded on the south by the English Channel. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed, with the livings of Marshwood and Stanton St. Gabriel, to the vicarage of Whitchurch-Canonicorum. There is a place of worship for Roman Catholics.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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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