Tarrant Monkton with Tarrant Launceston, Dorset Family History Guide
Tarrant Monkton with Tarrant Launceston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Tarrant Launceston.
Alternative names: Tarrant Monckton, Tarrant Monkton
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1564
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Presbyterian, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
- Winterbourne Clenstone
- Charlton Marshall
- Tarrant Rushton
- Long Crichel
- Tarrant Rawston
- Blandford St Mary
- Pimperne
- Tarrant Hinton
- Winterbourne Whitchurch
- Langton Long
- Moor Crichel
Parish History
Tarrant Monkton
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
MONCKTON, TARRANT (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Blandford, hundred of Monckton-upWimborne, Wimborne division of Dorset, 4¼ miles (E. N. E.) from Blandford; containing 246 inhabitants. This place derived its name from a monastic establishment which existed here, and the adjunct denotes its situation on the river Tarrant. The parish is in a valley; the soil is light and chalky, and the chief agricultural produce is wheat, barley, and turnips. The living is a discharged vicarage, with that of Tarrant-Launceston annexed, valued in the king’s books at £17. 16. 8.; net income, £55; patron and impropriator, J. J. Farquharson, Esq., whose tithes have been commuted for £500, and who has a glebe of 56 acres. There are 2½ acres of vicarial glebe.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Tarrant Launceston
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
TARRANT-LAUNCESTON, a parish, in the union of Blandford, hundred of Pimperne, Blandford division of Dorset, 5¼ miles (N. E. by E.) from the town of Blandford; containing 123 inhabitants. The parish comprises, with Tarrant-Monckton, 3818 acres, of which 119 are common or waste land. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Tarrant-Monckton.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Census
Census returns for Tarrant-Monckton, 1841-1891
Census returns for Tarrant-Launceston, 1841-1891
Church Records
Poorhouses & Poor Law
Miscellaneous civil records, 1797-1832 Author: Tarrant-Monckton (Dorset)
Public records
Miscellaneous civil records, 1797-1832 Author: Tarrant-Monckton (Dorset)
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Blandford
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pimperne
- Poor Law Union: Blandford
- Hundred: Monkton up Wimborne; Pimperne
- Province: Canterbury