Littlebredy Dorset Family History Guide
Littlebredy is a chapelry of Long Bredy Ancient Parish in Dorset.
Alternative names: Little Bredy
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1717
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1732
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BREDY (Little), a parish in Dorchester district, Dorset; on the downs, at the source of the Bredy stream, 5 miles SSW of Grimstone and Frampton r. station, and 6¾ W by S of Dorchester.
It has a post office under Dorchester. Acres, 1,636. Real property, with Kingston-Russell, £2198. Pop, 199. Houses, 41. The property is all in one estate. Stone is quarried.
The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Long Bredy, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Kelly’s Directory of Dorsetshire 1880
LITTLE BREDY is a parish in the hundred of Uggscombe petty sessional division, union and county court district of Dorchester, rural deanery of Bridport first portion, archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury, 7 miles west by south from Dorchester and 6 south west from Grimston station on the Great Western railway.
The church of St Michael is a stone building, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle and transept, with central tower. The register dates from the year 1717. The living is annexed to Long Bredy, tithe rent charge £225, in the gift of Robert Williards esq. and held by the Rev Henry Pigou MA of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Meller’s charity of £2 10s yearly is expended for the poor.
The Little Bourne, which flows through the village of Winterbourne Abhas, rises from a spring two miles distant from Bridehead House, and close to this spring is a Druidical circle of stones. At this place is a large quarry from which the stone for erecting Winterbourne Abbey was taken. Bridehead House the seat of Robert Williams esq. D.L., is a mansion situated in a valley and surrounded by a well wooded park of 450 acres; the river Bride, or Brede runs out of the Bridehead Lake, close to Bridehead House. Robert Williams esq. is lord of the manor and sole landower. The soil is varied, principally light and heavy loam; subsoil, chalk.
The chief crops are wheat oats barley and roots. The area is 1,636 acres; rateable value £1,517; the population in 1871 was 204.
Parish Clerk James Slade
Post Office – Obadiah Barrett, receiver. Letters by mail cart from Dorchester to Winterbourne & by foot post from Winterbourne at 7.10 am; dispatched at 7 pm. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Abbotsbury.
National School, Miss Ellen Gillingham mistress
Meadows Rev Robert Rust B.A.
Williams Robert DL Bridehead house
Palmer William, tailor
Roper Norris, farmer
Tabor John, steward to R. Williams esq.
Source: Kelly’s directory of Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire (the Isle of Wight, and the Channel Islands).
By Kelly’s directories, ltd · 1880
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Dorchester
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Bridport
- Poor Law Union: Dorchester
- Hundred: Uggscombe
- Province: Canterbury