The Parish of
Symondsbury

Symondsbury is a parish and village situated to the east of Bridport. In the north it is adjacent to Netherbury and then runs to the coast between Chideock on the west and Allington, Bridport and Bothenhampton on the east. The church of St John the Baptist is in Early English style and cruciform shape, it has a nave, trancepts, south porch and square tower with 5 bells and a clock. The registers date from 1558.

There is also a chapel of ease of St Peter built at Eype, a small village closer to the coast, Higher Eype being 1 mile from Symondsbury and Lower Eype 1½ miles. Other hamlets are Miles Cross, half a mile south and Broadoak 2 miles north. There is also a chapel of ease at Broadoak erected in 1865. The land is rolling hills with cliffs to the sea edge. The soil is clay and sand and the chief crops are grass, wheat, barley and oats. There is an endowed school with a large schoolhouse erected in 1865. The population in 1891 was 1186 of which 186 were included in the municipal borough of Bridport. Information from Kelly's Directory 1895.

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