Place:Almer, Dorset, England

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NameAlmer
Alt namesCombe Almersource: hamlet in parish
Mapperton (near Almer)source: hamlet in parish
Mapperton (near Sturminster)source: another name for above
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates50.78°N 2.12°W
Located inDorset, England     ( - 1933)
See alsoCranborne Hundred, Dorset, Englandhundred in which it was located
Loosebarrow Hundred, Dorset, Englandhundred in which it was also located
Wimborne and Cranborne Rural, Dorset, Englandrural district 1894-1933
Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, Englandparish into which it was absorbed in 1933
East Dorset District, Dorset, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area 1974-2019
source: Family History Library Catalog
the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Almer was a civil parish and a village in Dorset, England located on the A31 road near Winterborne Zelston, Huish Manor, Sturminster Marshall and opposite the Drax estate. The seven residential properties in Almer are owned and let by the Charborough (Drax) Estate.

Almer Parish Church is dedicated to St Mary and is a Grade 1 listed building.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of West Chelborough from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"ALMER, a parish in Blandford [registration] district, Dorset; on an affluent of the Stour, 3½ miles S by W of Spettisbury [railway] station, and 7 W by S of Wimborne-Minster. It contains the hamlet of Mapperton. Post Town: Shapwick under Blandford. Acres: 1,161. Real property: £2,686. Population: 155. Houses: 34. The manor belongs to T. S Drax, Esq. of Charborough; and much of the surface is included in Charborough Park. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value: £284. Patron, Miss Drax."

In 1933 the civil parish was abolished and the area absorbed into Sturminster Marshall. Immediately prior to its abolition the parish had an 1170 acres (473 hectares or 1.83 sq miles) and a population of 108.

Note: The hamlet of Mapperton (near Almer) referred to by John Marius Wilson and described here in WeRelate is not the parish of Mapperton in the west of Dorset.

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Dorset Research Tips

One of the many maps available on the website A Vision of Britain through Time is one from the Ordnance Survey Series of 1900 illustrating the parish boundaries of Dorset at the turn of the 20th century. This map blows up to show all parishes and many of the small villages and hamlets. The internal boundaries on this map are the rural districts which are indicated in WeRelate's "See Also" box for the place concerned (unless it is an urban parish).

The following websites have pages explaining their provisions in WeRelate's Repository Section. Some provide free online databases. Some are linked to Ancestry.

  • GENUKI makes a great many suggestions as to other websites with worthwhile information about Dorset, but it has left the 19th century descriptions of each of the ecclesiastical parishes to UK Genealogy Archives which presents facts differently. Neither GENUKI or UK Genealogy Archives deal with the more modern civil parishes.
  • FamilySearch Wiki provides a similar information service to GENUKI which may be more up-to-date, but UK Genealogy Archives may prove more helpful.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time has
  1. organization charts of the hierarchies of parishes within hundreds, registration districts and rural and urban districts up to 1974
  2. excerpts from gazetteers of the late 19th century outlining individual towns and parishes
  3. reviews of population through the time period 1800-1960
  • The contents of the Victoria County History is provided by British History Online for many English counties, but not for Dorset. Instead they have provided the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England (RCHME Inventory Volumes) published in 1972 in five volumes covering the county in geographical areas. Thes articles describe buildings rather than towns and villages, but may be of use in researching a manor-owning family.
  • More local sources can often be found by referring to "What Links Here" in the column on the left.
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