Preston or Preston-cum-Sutton Poyntz Dorset Family History Guide
Preston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Sutton Poyntz and Littlemore.
Alternative names: Preston with Sutton Poyntz, Preston-cum-Sutton Poyntz
Parish church: St. Andrew
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1693
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1592
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
PRESTON, a parish in Weymouth district, Dorset; on Weymouth bay, 3¼ miles N E of Weymouth r. station. It includes the tything of Sutton-Poyntz; and its post town is Weymouth. Acres, 2, 679; of which 70 are water. Real property, £4, 766. Pop., 723. Houses, 164. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to J. Weld, Esq. There is a coast-guard station. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £202. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is old, was recently restored, and has a tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
PRESTON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Weymouth, liberty of Sutton-Pointz, Dorchester division of Dorset, 2½ miles (N. E. by N.) from Weymouth; containing, with the tything of Sutton-Pointz, 672 inhabitants.
The parish comprises by measurement 2609 acres, and is intersected by the road from Weymouth to Wareham. Stone for ordinary purposes is obtained. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £8. 18.; patron, the Prebendary of Preston in the Cathedral of Salisbury: the great tithes have been commuted for £270, and the vicarial for £250; the impropriate glebe comprises 64 acres, and the vicarial 3. The church is very ancient, and had formerly ten pensionary chapels belonging to it. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Registers
Marriages at Preston cum Sutton Poyntz 1695 to 1837
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Dorset Historical Directories
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Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Weymouth
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Preston and Sutton Poyntz
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – None, Post-1846 – Dorchester
- Poor Law Union: Weymouth
- Hundred: Sutton Poyntz Liberty
- Province: Canterbury