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"Is a village and parish in the hundred of its name, 12 miles from London, and 8 from Blandford. Its name is derived from the small river Beer, upon which it is seated; and from its having been anciently a royal demesne. Queen Elfrida had a seat here, to which she retired immediately after the murder of her son-in-law, Edward the Martyr, This place had the charter of a market granted to it by King John, and was constituted a borough by Edward 1, it may hence be supposed that Beer was of more importance in those days than at present, for it is now so inconsiderable that the market has fallen into disuse. The inhabitants are mostly employed in agriculture, and the cutting of wood for making faggots ; the country around here being more rich in wood than any other part in the south of Devon, The parish church is a small edifice; the living is a vicarage, of which the Rev. Carrington Ley is the incumbent. Here are two meeting-houses for dissenters, and an endowed school for educating and clothing eight boys, A fair is held at Woodbury hill, about half a mile distant, on the 18th of September and three following days. The parish of Beer-Regis, including the tything of Shy-Herton, contained by the last returns, 1,080 inhabitants." Source: Pigot & Co.'s Directory of Dorset, 1830. Transcribed by Nigel Batty-Smith ©2003
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- Michael Day provides photographs and bibliography for Bere Regis (St. John the Baptist) on his Dorset Churches website
- The Dorset History Centre hold the Parish Registers for Bere Regis:
Baptisms: 1788-1981 Marriages: 1788-1989 Burials: 1788-1927 (DHC Ref: PE/BER see also Milborne)
- A description of Bere Regis from the Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5 is available on the UK Genealogy Archives site
- Roger Shirley has kindly provided a transcript of the Bere Regis entry from Robsons 1835 Directory of Dorset
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bere Regis to another place.
- The Dorset On-line Parish Clerks scheme (OPC) transcribe records relating to the county.
The Bere Regis pages contain many useful resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SY847949 (Lat/Lon: 50.753672, -2.218723), Bere Regis which are provided by:
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