Motcombe

including Enmore Green


Motcombe Church, photograph © J G Kennedy 2003-2011

Motcombe is a large scattered parish 2 miles north from Shaftesbury. As early as the 19th century the parish was described as being well supplied with water, the source of which is a spring rising on the hills close to Cowherds Shute. The area is noted for numerous apple orchards and cider is manufactured; it was also a great cheesemaking area and market gardening, dairy farming and brick making were also carried on. Motcombe House is a handsome red brick structure in the Tudor style. 

The church of St Mary was rebuilt in 1846 and seats nearly 400 people. The registers date from 1676. At Enmore Green the church of St John the Evangelist was erected in 1843, it is in the Norman style and seats 300 persons. There was a Wesleyan and a Primitive Methodist chapel in Motcombe and a Primitive Methodist chapel and Life Boat Mission at Enmore Green. The population of the parish in 1891 was 1309 persons and the area is 4837 acres


Enmore Green Church, photograph © J G Kennedy 2003-2011



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Census 1841
1851 [Jan Genge Kennedy]
1861
1871 [Jan Genge Kennedy]
1881 [Terry Smith]
1891 [Jan Genge Kennedy]
Parish Registers
Baptisms 1675-1752, 1753-1812, 1813-1835, 1836-1875
Marriages 1672-1836, 1837-1875
Burials 1676-1744, 1745-1812
Enmore Green Baptisms 1843-1875
Enmore Green Marriages 1863-1875
Enmore Green Burials 1843-1875
Postal Directories Directories 1851, 1865, 1895 & 1935 
Monumental Inscriptions Persons commemorated on Burial Monuments at Motcombe
Persons commemorated on Burial Monuments at Enmore Green
Land Tax & Land Owners Owners of Land 1873
Other Records Motcombe Bill Posters
Motcombe Bastardy Orders
Motcombe Methodist Chapel Indenture (Gillingham Manor Court Rolls, 1828) [Mary Bird]
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Records held at the Dorset History Centre
[Ref PE-MOT] Motcombe
[Ref PE-ENG] Enmore Green
Registers
Christenings 1675-1951. Marriages 1676-2000. Burials 1676-1924.
Christenings 1843-1887. Marriages 1863-1974. Burials 1843-1963.
Registration District
(for the purpose of civil registration births, marriages & deaths)
1 Jul 1837-31 Mar 1937: Shaftesbury
1 Apr 1937-31 Mar 1974: Sturminster
1 Apr 1974-17 Oct 2005: North Dorset

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