The Parish of Beer Hacket

	Beer Hackett is a small parish and village 4 miles south-west from Sherborne. To the north is the parish of Thornford, to the east is Lillington with Leigh at the southern tip, Yetminster is south-west and Bradford Abbas to the west. The parish church of St Michael is in Early English style and has a chancel, nave, south porch and west tower with 4 bells. With the exception of the tower it was rebuilt in 1882. It seats 100 people and the parish registers date from 1549.
The parish cover 918 acres and the soil is clay, therefore most of the land is laid to pasture. Included in the parish is the tything of Knighton. The children from Beer Hackett attended the school at Thornford. There was never any post office or shop in the village and the census regularly reveal a population engaged in agriculture. In 189 the population of the parish including Knighton was 85 persons.
The Online Parish Clerk (OPC) for Beer Hackett is Caryl Parsons Resources are available for look-up by contacting me. There are also some transcriptions on this site and more will be added. The list below represents the main transcriptions I have, there may well be other smaller items not listed, so it is always worth contacting me. I am familiar with the village and surrounding area. Please place the words 'OPC Beer Hackett' as your subject for e-mails. I will be building resources over the coming months so don't forget to come back regularly for the latest additions.
Census	1841, 1851, 1861 & 1901 are on line, I can also provide details from the 1871, 1881 and 1891 census
Parish Registers	Parish Register Baptisms 1549-1812, 1813-1860 & 1861 to 1900 Parish Register Marriages 1549-1812, & 1813-1900 Parish Register Burials 1549-1812 and Burials 1813 to 1900
Postal Directories	1859, 1911, 1923, 1931, 1935 and 1939 Directories are available.
Monumental Inscriptions	Indexed here please email the MI coordinator for futher details [link on page]
Militia	Names from the 1798 militia list available for look-up
Other Records	Thomas Gollop Accounts Book 1765-1784
Absent Voters 1918	The Absent Voters list provides some service details to enable further tracing of military records,
Maps	The 1891 ordinance survey maps of the parish can be seen at the old-maps site, just enter 'Beer Hackett' under place search.
	For modern location maps visit:- www.multimap.com Left. Tibbles Lane. There used to be some cottages at the end of this lane, now a track, by Tibbles Bridge, which is shown on the old-map site above. Photographs by Caryl Parsons © Below. Two cottages close to the church, the one on the left was the Church Farm.

Beer Hackett