Tolpuddle, Dorset Family History Guide
Tolpuddle is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Park and Southover.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1718
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1732
Nonconformists include:
Adjacent Parishes
- Milborne St Andrew
- Bere Regis
- Burleston
- Athelhampton
- Affpuddle
- Dewlish
- Tincleton
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
TOLPUDDLE, a parish, in the union of Dorchester, hundred of Piddletown, Dorchester division of Dorset, 7 miles (E. N. E.) from Dorchester; containing 368 inhabitants. The parish comprises 1856 acres, of which 169 are common or waste; the soil is chalky. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £15. 7. 3½.; net income, £240; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford, whose tithes have been commuted for £400, and who have a glebe of 10 acres. The church is a small ancient fabric, built of rubble. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Census
Census returns for Tolpuddle, 1841-1891
Church Records
History
Pidela : an account of the village of Tolpuddle, Dorset, from early times Author: Wirdnam, Audrey
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: Puddletown
- Province: Canterbury