In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described West Fordington like this:
FORDINGTON (West), a chapelry in Fordington parish, Dorchester district, Dorset; in the western vicinity of Dorchester town and r. station. Post town, Dorchester. The chapelry was constituted in 1847. Pop., 1, 059. Houses, 113. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, not reported. Patron, the Vicar of Fordington.
"Christ Church was built in 1846 next to the old Royal Horse Artillery Barracks which were to the North of Poundbury Road with a large frontage stretching from just past where the car park is today up to the Railway Line. On the South side of Poundbury Road was the Infantry Barracks which still exist today and now house the Dorset History Centre. The church with its adjoining vicarage was to the east side of the RHA Barracks fronting onto "The Grove" (now the B3147)." (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fordingtondorset/Files/WFordingtonHistoryChristchurch.html, accessed 22 Sept 2011). Additional information about this locality is available for Dorchester
West Fordington through time
West Fordington is now part of West Dorset district. Click here for graphs and data of how West Dorset has changed over two centuries. For statistics about West Fordington itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of West Fordington in West Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25799
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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