Kingston (near Corfe Castle)
Part of the Dorset Online Parish Clerk network
DORSET OPC
Links
OPC pages for nearby parishes:
Church Knowle OPC -
Corfe Castle OPC -
Kimmeridge OPC -
Langton Matravers OPC -
Worth Matravers OPC -
The Dorset History Centre is in Dorchester and holds the registers for most parishes in Dorset, along with many other records.
Dorset Life
This magazine is published monthly and many articles are available in abridged form online.
Two articles featuring Kingston are no longer available online:
Roads to the Isle -
Natural gifts -
The Museum has a Local Studies Centre that offers a wide range of material for study and research. They also have volunteers with detailed local knowledge who can help to answer specific Local and Family History enquiries.
The Dubber is a monthly publication full of local news that is delivered to homes in the parishes of Kingston, Langton Matravers and Worth Matravers. It is also published online.
As its name suggests, this site provides information on locations throughout the Purbecks.
A website with a mass of photographs of places across England including Graham Rains pictures of Kingston
This site has lots of information about towns and villages in Dorset and includes many historical maps.
Since the beginning of 1999 David Cotton has made over 800 walks throughout the UK, totalling over 14,000 miles. This website details all of these walks, including a circular walk from Worth Matrevers to Kimmeridge that passes through Kingston and Hill Bottom.
Dorset Historic Churches Trust
Dorset Historic Churches Trust assists, by grant or interest free loan, repairs to the fabric of Dorset's Christian churches of all denominations. Since the Trust was founded in 1959 it has assisted more than 250 churches in the County.
