Dewlish is a chapelry of Milborne St Andrew Ancient Parish in Dorset.
Alternative names:
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1627
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1732
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
Adjacent Parishes
- Puddletown
- Milborne St Andrew
- Milton Abbas
- Cheselbourne
- Burleston
- Tolpuddle
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
DEWLISH (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Dorchester, liberty of Dewlish, Dorchester division of Dorset, 7 miles (N. E.) from Dorchester; containing 389 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of Milbourne St. Andrew: the vicarial tithes of Dewlish have been commuted for £100. The church is an ancient structure.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Census
Census returns for Dewlish, 1841-1891
Church Records
Land and property
Taxation
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Dorchester
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Whitchurch
- Poor Law Union: Dorchester
- Hundred: Dewlish Liberty
- Province: Canterbury