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Winterborne Steepleton |
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Winterborne Steepleton |
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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 registers date from 1558. The soil is light gravel and the 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
Steven Plowman
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Census |
1841,
1851 &
1861 online
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Parish Registers |
Baptisms Marriages - Extracts 1559-1754 by Richard Crumbleholme. Burials |
Postal Directories |
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Land Records |
A copy of the Tithe Records is available on another site |
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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 |
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