Chardstock

Chardstock is one of the most westerly parishes in Dorset. Parishes in Devon are to the north and south of it, the parish of Wambrook lies to the west and Thorncombe and Hawkchurch to the east. The church of St Andrew was rebuilt on 1864 and there is the College of St Andrew adjoining. The parish registers date from the year 1590 and are considered to be in an excellent state of preservation. Chardstock was in Dorset until transferred to the county of Devon in 1896, but remains in the Diocese of Salisbury. Chardstock All Saints (in Smallridge) is a modern ecclesiastical parish and the church erected in 1845 with registers starting from that date. It was  created from Chardstock and Axminster.  Wambrook was a chapelry of this parish. The parish covers 5618 acres and the chief crops are wheat barley, oats and apples. The population of All Saints parish was 533 in 1871.

There is no OPC for Chardstock at present

Donations of further material to go on-site are very welcome, please contact the Co-ordinator on the home page.

Census

1841 Census Districts 10 & 11, 12 & 13 Transcribed by Jacqui Bowen.
1851 Census Transcribed by Maria Almond
1861 Census, Districts 1B, 2C & 3B
1871 Census
1881 Census this can be searched free on the LDS Site.
1891 Census on this site
1901 Census. An index is available on the PRO site but you have to pay to view pages. This also applies to Ancestry Com  indexes.

Parish Registers

Directories

Links

Village Web Site with a history section.
1873 Owners of Land on GenUKI
Kelly's 1923 on GenUKI

Maps

The 1891 ordinance survey maps of the parish can be seen at the old-maps site, just enter 'Chardstock' under place search.

For modern location maps visit:-  www.multimap.com