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Dorset 1891 Census on CD

A transcription of the census for the entire county. Contains 194,482 entries.

£10.00

Follies

(Jonathan Holt)  Dorset’s follies are amongst its greatest architectural delights.  Some, like the Horton Tower and Hardy’s Monument, are famous landmarks. Throughout the county there are grottoes, obelisks, temples, shell gardens, fake forts, arches, pavilions and even a sham chapel……

£4.95

Charlinch Parish Registers

A transcription of: Christenings 1593-1946, Marriages 1593-1946, Burials 1593-1981.

£7.20

Fossils

(Richard Edmonds)  Few places in the British Isles are as rich in fossils as Dorset. Thanks to its remarkable geology and the instability of much of the coast, new and often important discoveries continue to be made, often by amateur…..

£4.95

Somerset 1891 Census on CD

A transcription of the census for most of the county.  Excludes the area around Bristol. Contains 298,397 entries.

£10.00

Bridges

(David McFetrich & Jo Parsons)  Dorset’s bridges form a rich architectural legacy that is all too often overlooked. Those pictured and described in the book span 800 years, from the Middle Ages to the present, and range from the simple…..

£4.95

Cassini Revised New Series Map – Sheet 182, Weston-super-Mare – 1899-1900

The map covers the same area, is reproduced to the same scale (1:50,000), carries the same map number and uses the same British National Grid Reference, as the corresponding Ordnance Survey Landranger© map.

£7.99

Heathlands

(Lesley Haskins)  Dorset’s heaths are internationally renowned as the finest example of this most fragile of habitats anywhere in Britain.  They embrace an ever-changing mosaic of dry sandy ridges, bogs, pools and streams, which together support an exceptional wealth of…..

£4.95

Castles & Forts

(Colin Pomeroy)  Dorset’s surviving castles and forts are the visible record of a past that stretches back for more than a thousand years. They belong to three main periods: those dating to the Middle Ages, the coastal castles built during…..

£4.95

Chelborough, East and West, Parish Registers

A transcription of: East Chelborough: Christenings 1732-1879, Marriages 1690-1846, Burials 1730-1879. West Chelborough: Christenings 1732-1879, Marriages 1673-1835, Burials 1740-1879.

£4.95

Bradford Abbas Parish Records CD

Parish Registers – Baptisms 1653-1900, Marriages 1680-1900, Burials 1653-1900 Clifton Maybank Parish Registers Electoral registers for 1843, 1914 and 1920 Directories for 1859, 1865, 1903, 1923, 1935 and 1939 Quaker marriages 1658-1838, Quaker links in Bradford Abbas Rev. Wickham’s scrapbook,…..

£10.00

Cassini Revised New Series Map – Sheet 193, Taunton & Lyme Regis – 1898-1900

The map covers the same area, is reproduced to the same scale (1:50,000), carries the same map number and uses the same British National Grid Reference, as the corresponding Ordnance Survey Landranger© map.

£7.99

Georgians, The

(Jo Draper)  Two centuries of agricultural change and the growth of the towns have transformed Dorset’s Georgian landscape. Using contemporary illustrations and concentrating on those who lived in the eighteenth century Dorset, the author has superbly captured the character of…..

£4.95

Railway Worker, My Ancestor was a

(Frank Hardy)  A complete guide to using railway records, covering all aspects of this hugely significant industry. The book includes a brief history of our railways from the start to 1948, an explanation of the job titles used by the…..

£8.99

WORLD WAR I ARMY ANCESTRY

4th EDITION 2003 (Norman Holding & Iain Swinnerton) This book sets out to provide family history researchers with a list of sources available to them so that they may reconstruct the career of a soldier. Although it provides a few…..

£6.95

Cassini Revised New Series Map – Sheet 194, Dorchester & Weymouth – 1899

The map covers the same area, is reproduced to the same scale (1:50,000), carries the same map number and uses the same British National Grid Reference, as the corresponding Ordnance Survey Landranger© map.

£7.99