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"BELLCHALWELL, a parish, in the union of STURMINSTER, hundred of CRANBORNE, Sturminster division of DORSET, 8 miles (W. N. W.) from Blandford-Forum, containing 225 inhabitants, and comprising 1308 acres, of which 222 are common or waste. The living is a discharged rectory, united in 1776 to the rectory of Fifehead-Neville, and valued in the king's books at £7. 15. The tithes have been commuted for £260, and there are 3 acres of glebe." Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, 7th edition, 1848. Transcribed by Nigel Batty-Smith ©2014
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- Michael Day provides photographs and bibliography for Belchalwell (St. Aldhelm) on his Dorset Churches website
- The Dorset History Centre hold the Parish Registers for Belchalwell:
Baptisms: 1842-1998 Marriages: 1760-1971 Burials: 1821-1998 (DHC )
- A description of Belchalwell from the Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5 is available on the UK Genealogy Archives site
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Belchalwell to another place.
- The Dorset On-line Parish Clerks scheme (OPC) transcribe records relating to the county.
The Belchalwell pages contain many useful resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference ST791097 (Lat/Lon: 50.886656, -2.298288), Belchalwell which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.