Place:Chickerell, Dorset, England

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NameChickerell
Alt namesWest Chickerellsource: built-up area of parish
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates50.624°N 2.505°W
Located inDorset, England
See alsoCulliford Tree Hundred, Dorset, Englandhundred in which it was located
Weymouth Rural, Dorset, Englandrural district 1894-1933
Dorchester Rural, Dorset, Englandrural district to which part was transferred in 1933
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, Dorset, Englandmunicipal borough to which part was transferred in 1933
West Dorset District, Dorset, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area 1974-2019
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Chickerell (#4 on map) is a town and civil parish in the south of the county of Dorset, England. In the 2011 census the parish and the electoral ward had a population of 5,515.

Although Roman remains have been found, indicating that there has been settlement in the area for many years, as a modern town, Chickerell is recent and one of Dorset's newest towns and has seen much development over the last twenty years.

The parish of Chickerell has to the west of it the Fleet Lagoon and the parishes of Fleet (#5) and Langton Herring (#6). To the northwest is Portesham (#9), to the east Weymouth, and to the south the Isle of Portland.

The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).

"CHICKERELL (West), a parish in Weymouth [registration] district, Dorset; on the coast, at the East Fleet, 3 miles NW by W of Weymouth town and [railway] station. It includes the tythings of East Chickerell and Putton; and has a post office under Weymouth. Acres: 1,812; of which 280 are water. Real property: £2,620. Population: 660. Houses: 143. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value: £320. Patrons: the Duke of Cleveland and the Dowager Countess of Sandwich. The church is tolerable."
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Governance

Chickerell was an ancient parish within the Culliford Tree Hundred. It was a civil parish in Weymouth Rural District from 1894 until the district council was abolished in 1933. It then became part of Dorchester Rural District. Also in 1933 its boundaries were redrawn when it absorbed small areas of surrounding parishes which were abolished as their remaining acreages were absorbed into Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, the neighbouring municipal borough.

In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, all urban and rural districts across England were abolished and counties were reorganized into metropolitan and non-metropolitan districts. Chickerell's links with Weymouth and Melcombe Regis were cut and it joined the non-metropolitan West Dorset District.

Under the local government reforms adopted on 1 April 2019, the district was abolished, and the county of Dorset (excluding Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole) became a unitary authority. Chickerell is now administered by Dorset Council, another unitary authority.

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