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Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Bridport lies in southwestern Dorset about 14 miles west of Dorchester. Bridport is a market town and port, albeit some 2 miles from the sea but accessed via the River Brit. Bridport has been the local market town for the area for many hundreds of years and has a pre-Conquest history as well as involvement in both the English Civil War and also the Monmouth Rebellion. Bridport is located on the A35 road which Dorchester with Exeter, the main road now passing in a bypass to the south of the town. Bridport was also a major port for Dorset, not only for the shipping out of local produce but also for allowing entry of coal and raw materials from the rest of Britain and Europe. The port was also a significant shipbuilding enterprise. Nowadays Bridport is still a thriving market town and also has a holiday function through its satellite settlement at West Bay. The area around Bridport would largely have been used for a mixed farming regime, cattle in the valley bottoms, sheep on the Downs and arable on the better soils. The River Brit drains the parish to the English Channel just two miles to the south. Bridport is sited between 5 and 20 metres above the sea and rolling chalky downs rise close by to local heights of over 160 metres on Quarry Hill. Bridport parish was extremely small in extent covering only the market town itself and was thus barely 70 acres in all, the population was almost 5,000 parishioners. In Domesday Book Bridport is shared by the Abbey of Saint Wandrille, the Bishop of Salisbury and the King himself. There are no detailed statistics specific to the parish but it was, even then, a thriving settlement and heavily taxed (nothing changes!). |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 25th April 1754 - 2nd November 1806 | Dorset Archives & Local Studies - Reference - PE-BT/RE/3/1 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 16th November 1806 - 24th December 1812 | Dorset Archives & Local Studies - Reference - PE-BT/RE/3/2 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
3 | 10th January 1813 - 14th July 1829 | Dorset Archives & Local Studies - Reference - PE-BT/RE/3/3 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
4 | 20th July 1829 - 27th June 1837 | Dorset Archives & Local Studies - Reference - PE-BT/RE/3/4 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Allington
St Swithun
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Bradpole Holy
Trinity
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Bradpole
Holy Trinity
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Allington St
Swithun
Symondsbury St John the Baptist |
Bothenhampton
Holy Trinity
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Symondsbury
St John the Baptist
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Bothenhampton
Holy Trinity
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Bothenhampton
Holy Trinity
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