England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Wimborne St Giles lies in the far east of Dorset not too far from its border with neighbouring Hampshire. Wimborne St Giles is located roughly 8 miles west of the small Hampshire town of Fordingbridge and sits just over a mile west of the B3078 road which connects Fordingbridge with Wimborne Minster. Wimborne St Giles is a small and slightly linear village lying on the eastern banks of the infant River Allen with most properties stretching northwards along both sides of the valley from the church and the estate of St Giles House. Like many Dorset parishes Wimborne St Giles was a farming parish, arable in the main but with a healthy percentage of pastoral making for a mixed regime. The lower reaches of the parish, away from the chalk substrate are often left to common & heathland reminiscent of nearby New Forest lands. The River Allen drains the parish southwards passing through Wimborne Minster to join the Dorset Stour and reach the English Channel through Christchurch Harbour. Wimborne St Giles is sited at around 50 metres above the sea in its valley setting, land rises away from the Allen in gentle chalk downs reaching to just over 100 metres. Wimborne St Giles parish had an elongated shape with the east to west width being narrow but extending for some distance from north to south, the whole being fairly typically sized for eastern Dorset covering just over 1,700 acres which would have supported a population of around 500 parishioners. In Domesday times Wimborne St Giles was an altogether more important place and one of the 20% largest settlements recorded in that book, shared by no fewer than 6 landholders with the major portion retained by King William the parish had a phenomenal level of recorded assets, collectively the parish held 38 ploughs, extensive meadows, pasture & woodland and a hugely profitable 10 mills, a wealthy series of holdings and one of the largest recorded in that book, a complete contrast to today's small village. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
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23rd June 1754 - 22nd October 1812 |
Dorset Record Office - Reference - PE-WSG/RE/5/1 |
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 NB a scatter of entries are recorded into a plain unruled book rather than the main register, this fragment is assigned reference PE-WSG/RE/5/2 |
2 | 5th July 1813 - 9th May 1837 | Dorset Record Office - Reference - PE-WSG/RE/5/3 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Sixpenny
Handley St Mary
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Pentridge
St Rumbold
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Cranborne
St Mary & St Bartholomew
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Cranborne
St Mary & St Bartholomew
Edmondsham St Nicholas |
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Horton
St Wolfreda
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Horton
St Wolfreda
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