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Name | Chickerell |
Alt names | West Chickerell | source: built-up area of parish |
Type | Ancient parish, Civil parish |
Coordinates | 50.624°N 2.505°W |
Located in | Dorset, England |
See also | Culliford Tree Hundred, Dorset, England | hundred in which it was located | | Weymouth Rural, Dorset, England | rural district 1894-1933 | | Dorchester Rural, Dorset, England | rural district to which part was transferred in 1933 | | Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, Dorset, England | municipal borough to which part was transferred in 1933 | | West Dorset District, Dorset, England | district municipality covering the area 1974-2019 |
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
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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Categories: Dorset, England | Chickerell, Dorset, England | Culliford Tree Hundred, Dorset, England | Weymouth Rural, Dorset, England | Dorchester Rural, Dorset, England | Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, Dorset, England | West Dorset District, Dorset, England
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