England &
Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Oare is the most westerly within its county of Somerset and forms part of the border with neighbouring Devon. Oare is located about 6 miles west of the small fishing port of Porlock and sits, in lanes, about a half mile south of the A39 coastal road which links Porlock through to Lynton in Devon. There is very little to modern day Oare, little more than a hamlet, and it would appear that has been ever so. Set deep within the heart of Exmoor yet sheltering deep within the valley of the Weir water Oare has always been a small community kept alive by the grazing of sheep on the slopes of Exmoor. Estimates vary but some sources state that 3/4 of the parish acreage was "waste", rough moorland. Despite this remoteness Oare has literary connections being the site of Lorna Doone's doomed marriage in that novel closely associated with the moor. The Weir Water drains the parish northwestwards joining the east Lyn River and squeezing through the hills to reach the outer Bristol Channel at Lynmouth. Despite being less than 2 miles from the coast Oare is sited at 240 metres above the sea and land rises ever higher to top out at just over 400 metres on the moors to Oare's south. By Somerset standards Oare parish was large in extent, covering close to 4,000 acres it could support a mere 50 parishioners. In Domesday times Oare was held by one Ralph de Pomeroy and was equally small, offering just 6 ploughs plus the usual small meadows, pastures and woodland. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 8th March 1766 - 17th May 1803 | Somerset Archives & Local Studies - Reference - D/P/oare/2/1/1 | Plain, unruled book, a continuation of the extant composite register in contravention of Hardwicke's segregation & wording requirements | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 31st March 1805 - 8th September 1812 | Somerset Archives & Local Studies - Reference - D/P/oare/2/1/2 | 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 This register is bound together with the extant composite register into a single archival deposit |
3 | 16th April 1813 - 10th June 1826 | Somerset Archives & Local Studies - Reference - D/P/oare/2/1/3 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Countisbury
St John the Evangelist, Devon
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Brendon St
Brendon, Devon
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Culbone
St Culbone
Porlock St Dubritius |
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Extra-parochial
Exmoor
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Extra-parochial
Exmoor
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Porlock
St Dubritius
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