Loders Dorset Family History Guide
Loders is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Uploders, West End, and Up Loders.
Alternative names: Lothers
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1636
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1732
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Allington
- Netherbury
- Walditch
- Askerswell
- Litton Cheney
- Symondsbury with Eype and Broadoak
- Burton Bradstock
- Bradpole
- Shipton George
- Melplaish
- Powerstock with West Milton
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LODERS, a village and a parish in Bridport district, Dorset. The village stands adjacent to the Bridport railway, on a small affluent of the river Brit, 2 miles NE of Bridport; and has a post office under Bridport.
The parish comprises 2,241 acres. Real property, with UpLoders, Mattravers, and Askerswell, £7,127. Rated property of L. alone, £4,498. Pop. in 1851,986; in 1861, 1,053. Houses, 218. The property is divided among a few.
Loders Court is the seat of Sir M. H. Nepean, Bart. A priory, subordinate to Montsburgh abbey in Normandy, was founded here in the time of Henry II.; and was given, by Henry V., to Sion abbey. Building stone is quarried. A large flax and hemp mill is at West End.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £315. Patron, alternately the Lord Chancellor and Sir M. H. Nepean, Bart. The church has a low massive W tower, and is good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £12.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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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: Loders and Bothenhampton Liberty
- Province: Canterbury