West Chelborough
West Chelborough is located in Dorset
West Chelborough
West Chelborough
Location within Dorset
Area2.38 km2 (0.92 sq mi)
Population42 (2001 census)
• Density18/km2 (47/sq mi)
Civil parish
  • West Chelborough
Unitary authority
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom

West Chelborough is a village and civil parish 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Dorchester,[1] in the Dorset district, in the county of Dorset, England. In 2001, the parish had a population of 42.[2] The parish touches Corscombe and East Chelborough.[3]

Name

"Chelborough" may mean "Ceola's Hill" or "Throat Hill."[4] The Domesday Book records the place as Celberge/Celberga.[5]

Church

The church of St Andrew was rebuilt in about 1640 and restored in 1894. It consists of a chancel, nave, and a tower on the south side. The embattled tower has a pinnacle at each corner and contains two bells. The font is Norman. In 1915, the church had fifty sittings.[6]

The restoration of 1894 was paid for by George Troyte Chafyn Grove of North Coker House, East Coker, who was the lord of the manor and patron of the living.[7] He raised the height of the chancel and re-roofed the entire church. He also renewed the side windows of the chancel, replaced the west windows, and filled the east windows with stained glass. Formerly known as George Bullock, he first added "Troyte" to his name and then, in 1892, "Chafyn-Grove."[8]

Rectors 1795-1944

Name From To Patron Died or resigned Place of birth College
Charles Buckland 1795 1821 Died Newton Abbot Sydney Sussex, Cambs.
Champness Pleydell Bragge 1822 1839 John Bragge Resigned Thorncombe Jesus, Cambs.
Francis Duncan 1839 1872 John Lord Rolle Died Marylebone Trinity, Cambs.
Edmund Wyndham 1872 1873 George Bullock Resigned Bramshaw, Hants Magdalen, Oxford
Isaac Penruddock 1873 1877 George Bullock Resigned Bath Peterhouse, Cambs.
Henry Horatio Pace 1878 1886 George Bullock Resigned Madras Saint Bees'
Edward Richard Godley 1886 1934 George Bullock Died Southampton Queen's, Oxford
Stuart Miles Morgan 1934 1944 Resigned Forest Hill Keble, Oxford

The above information is based on the census enumerator books, Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, Venn, J. A., comp.. Alumni Cantabrigienses. London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954, and newspaper reports.[9] [10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

Buckland and Bragge were non-resident pluralists. Duncan lived at Maiden Newton in 1841 before moving to West Chelbough a few years later, probably soon after the construction of the rectory house.[17]

The Rev. Edward Richard Godley served as rector for nearly fifty years, living at the rectory with his Welsh wife, Florence Emily, with whom he had seven children. For the last twenty years, he celebrated holy communion daily.[18][19] From 1927 to 1932, the Rector of Closworth (the Rev. C. J. Neale) helped him with his duties, and from 1932 to 1934, an assistant curate performed all his duties. He died at West Chelborough on 28 February 1934, aged 93.[20]

Population

The population as recorded by the decennial census was as follows:

Males Females Total
1801 23 22 45
1811 23 21 44
1821 31 25 56
1831 35 27 62
1841 29 29 58
1851 30 34 64
1861 33 40 73
1871 32 40 72
1881 32 30 62
1891 30 27 57
1901 30 32 62
1911 21 37 58
1921 25 27 52
1931 23 23 46
1941 No census taken
1951 17 14 31
1961 15 14 29
1971 20 23 43

Summary of 1871 census

Males Females
Rector 1
Farmers 5 Farmers' wives 3
Farmers' sons 2 Farmers' daus 1
Dairymen 2 Dairymen's wives 2
Schoolmistress 1
Shopkeeper 1
Farm labourers 11 Dairymaid 1
Gardener 1 Glovers 3
Dressmaker 1
Domestic servants 7
Other wives 3
Rector's daus 2
Retired dairyman 1 Annuitant 1
Pauper 1
Children 8 14
Total 32 40

Tithe map

The tithe map, dated 1839, is at the scale of one inch to six chains.[21]

School

George Bullock built a "small cottage National school" in the village soon after he became lord of the manor in 1860.[22] [23] Mrs. Charlotte Whitty served as the schoolmistress for more than twenty years, after which it closed, and the children transferred to Corscombe.[24][25][26]

The grave of Private Frederick William Varder at .Etretat in Normandy. He is also commemorated on his son's gravestone at Halstock.

First World War

In August 1916, Private Joseph Hawkins was awarded the Military Medal for distinguished conduct on the battlefield in France and promoted to full corporal.[27] He was the fiancé of Alma Mary Dowton of Corscombe and the father of her daughter, who was about to be born. The couple married at West Chelborough on 11 July 1917 and, after the war, lived in the village at Ewens Farm.

At a tribunal in September 1916, 27-year-old Frederick William Varder of West Chelborough applied for exemption from military service because he managed his stepfather's holding at Ewens Farm. [28]The tribunal ruled that the three-month exemption previously granted should end on 31 October. On 12 July 1918, he died of influenza while serving with the 6th battalion of the Dorset regiment in France, leaving a widow and three young children.[29]

Listed buildings

There are 6 listed buildings in West Chelborough.[30]

References

  1. ↑ "Distance from West Chelborough [50.845893, 2.653112]". GENUKI. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  2. ↑ Neighbourhood Statistics
  3. ↑ "West Chelborough". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "East and West Chelborough Key to English Place-names". The University of Nottingham. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "Dorset A-G". The Domesday Book Online. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  6. ↑ Kelly's Directory of Dorset, 1915. 1915. p. 67.
  7. ↑ "News Jottings". Somerset Standard. 20 October 1894. p. 8.
  8. ↑ "Death of Mr G. Troyte-Chafyn-Grove". Western Gazette. 3 October 1913. p. 12.
  9. ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine. F. Jefferies. 1843. p. 440.
  10. ↑ "Died". Oxford Journal. 20 January 1821. p. 3.
  11. ↑ "Bridport". Somerset County Gazette. 21 December 1839. p. 3.
  12. ↑ "Salisbury Cathedral". Salisbury and Winchester Journal. 21 December 1872. p. 5.
  13. ↑ "Dorchester". Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram. 28 June 1878. p. 3.
  14. ↑ "Preferments and appointments". Salisbury and Winchester Journal. 3 April 1886. p. 5.
  15. ↑ "Vicar of Ferring". Worthing Gazette. 4 April 1934. p. 8.
  16. ↑ "Diocese of Salisbury". Western Gazette. 2 June 1944. p. 5.
  17. ↑ HO 107, piece 285, book 7, folio 12, page 18.
  18. ↑ "West Chelborough, 48 Years as Rector". Western Gazette. 2 March 1934. p. 6.
  19. ↑ England & Wales Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1995. The will of the Rev. Edward Richard Godley, proved at Bristol on 27 March 1934.
  20. ↑ Certificate for disposal on ancestry.com
  21. ↑ Kain, Roger J. P.; Oliver, Richard R. (20 July 1995). The Tithe Maps of England and Wales: A Cartographic Analysis and County-by-County Catalogue. Cambridge University Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-521-44191-9.
  22. ↑ "County of Dorset. Manor, Advowson, and Farm". Sherborne Mercury. 3 April 1860. p. 4.
  23. ↑ Post Office Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire & Dorset, 1875. p. 782.
  24. ↑ RG9, piece 1362, folio 24, page 3; RG10, piece 2022, folio 38, page 29; RG11, piece 2119, folio 33, page 21.
  25. ↑ Kelly's Directory of Dorsetshire, 1889. p. 58.
  26. ↑ Charlotte Whitty moved to Wimbledon, probably between March 1883, when her son, Thomas James, joined the Metropolitan Police (Metropolitan Police Pension Registers, 1852-1932) and September 1888, when her daughter, Sarah, died at 34 Gladstone Road, Wimbledon (burial register of St Mary, Wimbledon,1876-1891).
  27. ↑ "West Chelborough". Western Gazette. 25 August 1916. p. 2.
  28. ↑ "Dorset County Tribunal". Western Gazette. 6 October 1916. p. 5.
  29. ↑ UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947.
  30. ↑ "Listed Buildings in West Chelborough, West Dorset, Dorset". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
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