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“FLEET, a parish in the hundred of Uggscombe, Dorchester division of county Dorset, 3 miles N.W. of Weymouth, its post town, and 8 S. of Dorchester. It is situated near the southern coast, close to a long strip of water called the Fleet, which runs along this part of the shore for about 5 miles, being separated from the English Channel by a narrow neck of land known as Chesil Bank. This was a demesne of the priory of Christchurch, at Twynsham, in the county of Hants. A market and fair were granted to this place by Henry III., but have long been discontinued. The village now consists of only a few farmhouses. The old church, with part of the adjacent houses, were destroyed by an inundation of the sea during a storm in 1824. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury, value £66. The church is a handsome modern edifice, built in the Gothic style of architecture, with beautiful E. window representing the Raising of the Widow's Son. It is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Copper coins of the Emperor Gallienus have been found here in large quantities. There are small charities, and a free school for boys and girls. Fleet House is the principal residence."
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from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
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- Michael Day provides photographs and bibliography for Fleet (Holy Trinity) on his Dorset Churches website
- A description of Fleet from the Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5 is available on the UK Genealogy Archives site
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Fleet to another place.
- The Dorset On-line Parish Clerks scheme (OPC) transcribe records relating to the county.
The Fleet pages contain many useful resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SY636802 (Lat/Lon: 50.620771, -2.516384), Fleet 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.