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“SWYRE, a parish in the hundred of Uggscombe, Dorchester division of county Dorset, 5½ miles S.E. of Bridport, its post town. The village is situated about a mile from the coast of the English Channel. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Sarum, value £140. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The register dates from 1754. The parochial charities produce about £4 per annum. A National school was erected in 1851, at the expense of the Duke of Bedford, who is lord of the manor."
"BERWICK, a village in the parish of Swyre, liberty of Frampton, in the county of Dorset, 4 miles to the S.E. of Bridport. It is seated on the coast of the channel."
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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 Swyre (Holy Trinity) on his Dorset Churches website
- A description of Swyre 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
"BERWICK, a village in the parish of Swyre, liberty of Frampton, in the county of Dorset, 4 miles to the S.E. of Bridport. It is seated on the coast of the channel."
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Swyre to another place.
- The Dorset On-line Parish Clerks scheme (OPC) transcribe records relating to the county.
The Swyre pages contain many useful resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SY527883 (Lat/Lon: 50.692414, -2.67101), Swyre which are provided by:
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- 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.