Winterborne Steepleton

WINTERBORNE STEEPLETON, is a parish and pretty village, pleasantly situated in a vale, on the high road between Bridport and Weymouth, 4 1/2 miles west-by-south from Dorchester. 

The church of St. Michael is a long narrow building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel and nave, south porch,  and a tower with hexagonal spire and four pinnacles and containing one bell; the north and south doorways are Norman; there are 100 sittings. 

The register dates from the year 1558. The soil is light gravel; subsoil, chalk.  The chief crops are corn and pasture.  The area is 1,829 acres of land and 2 of water; the population in 1911 was 103.

The Online Parish Clerk (OPC) for Winterborne Steepleton is Stephen Plowman
    
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Census

1841, 1851 & 1861 online
1871 to be transcribed.
1881 is available free online at www.familysearch.org
1891 to be transcribed.
1901 is available online at nationalarchives.gov.uk the index is free but you have to pay to view the pages

Parish Registers

 Baptisms
Marriages - Extracts 1559-1754 by Richard Crumbleholme.
Burials

Postal Directories

1855, 1859, 1875, 1889, 1905, 1911 & 1915

Land Records

 A copy of the Tithe Records is available on another site

Protestation Returns

 A list of men from the parish taking the Protestation Return 1641 by Richard Crumbleholme
Tudor Muster Rolls A list of men from the parish mentioned in the Tudor Muster Rolls of 1539, 1542, 1569, by Richard Crumbleholme.
Tudor Lay Subsidies Extracts from Tudor Lay Subsidies for 1523-1593
Hearth Tax Hearth Tax Returns for the parish in 1662
Depositions Details of Depositions [law suits etc.] 16th & 17th century
Winterborne Steepleton The name of the Village and its origins
Winterbourne Steepleton Mill by Richard Crumbleholme

Maps

The 1890 ordnance survey maps of the parish can be seen at the old-maps and for modern location maps visit:-  www.multimap.com

Photographs

 

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