Bincombe, Dorset
Historical Description
Bincombe, a parish in Dorsetshire, under the Downs, 1½ mile from Upwey station on the G.W.R. Post town, Dorchester; money order and telegraph office, Upwey. Acreage, 982; population, 202. Good stone is quarried, and there is a mineral spring. Numerous barrows are on the Downs. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Broadway, in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value of the living of Bincombe, £176. The rectory house is at Broadway. Patron, Caius College, Cambridge. The church is old but good, and has a tower.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Dorsetshire | |
| Diocese | Bristol | 1542 - 1836 |
| Diocese | Salisbury | 1836 - |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Bincombe Holy Trinity | |
| Liberty | Frampton | |
| Poor Law union | Weymouth | 1836 - |
| Registration district | Weymouth | |
| Registration sub-district | Upway |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register of baptisms, marriages and burials begins in 1650. The original register books are now deposited with the Dorset Archives Service, but have been digitised by Ancestry.co.uk and made available on their site (subscription required).
Churches
Church of England
Holy Trinity (parish church)
The parish church of the Holy Trinity is a small building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower containing 2 bells: there is a memorial window to the late Mrs. Howship: the church affords 80 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Bincombe was in Weymouth Registration District from 1837 to 1974
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bincombe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bincombe (Holy Trinity))
- Hunt & Co.'s Directory of Dorsetshire, Hampshire, & Wiltshire 1851
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Dorset is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bincombe are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the Dorset County Chronicle and the Sherborne Mercury online.
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Dorset, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.