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West Lulworth

Part of the Dorset OPC network

DORSET OPC

Welcome to the West Lulworth OPC website, hosted by Martin White, as part of the Dorset OPC network.

The aim of this site is to provide historical information about West Lulworth and the people who have lived here over the centuries. As well as making information from old parish registers and census returns available, we include old postcard views and photographs, and lots more besides.

If you have any information about West Lulworth which you would like to share, be it stories or old photographs etc., please email us at info@westlulworth.org.uk  

The information on this website is provided for private research only. None of the information may be used for commercial purposes.

See our sister sites for East Lulworth and Tyneham.




Added in October 2011











• Probate records after 1858: Richard SHUTLER died 25 May 1937

• Probate records after 1858: John WINZAR died 24 February 1866


Added in July 2011


Added in June 2011

• Probate records after 1858: George Henry SINNECK died 1 November 1909

• Tourism & Transport: Bus & Coach Services - updated courtesy of Peter Roberts


Added in May 2011


Added in April 2011

• Probate records after 1858:

   Charles BUDDEN died 30 June 1911

   George Alfred BUDDEN died 13 October 1982

   Frederick George HARVELL died 16 March 1915

   Jane Esther HARVELL (nee Charles) died 31 August 1893

   Phoebe Sophia HARVELL (nee Sinnick) died 12 July 1935

   Amelia Sophia RANDALL (nee Read) died 2 August 1938

   Matthew RANDALL died 16 March 1886

   George RICHARDS died 1 August 1903

   Mary RICHARDS (nee Ingram) died 3 June 1915

   Priscilla WILLIAMS (nee Collins) died 18 January 1917


Added in March 2011

• Census 1841 - alphabetical index plus ‘as enumerated’ schedule

• Census 1851 - alphabetical index plus ‘as enumerated’ schedule


Added in December 2010

• Places - Castle Inn - Innkeepers


Added in October 2010

• Probate records after 1858:

  Samuel Smith BARNES died 13 November 1876

  William Collins BARNES died 5 October 1872

  Levi Charles MILLER died 28 April 1937

  Martha Louisa MILLER died 18 November 1930

  Edward RANDALL died 29 January 1872


Added in August 2010

• Graveyard (New) - Listing of graves


Added in July 2010:

• Census - 2001 Census Statistics

• Did you know? - two West Lulworth men, Ernest Budden and Bertie Whittle, were both killed during WW1 in action in Gallipoli on the same day in 1915

• Video Clips - showing West Lulworth, The Cove and Durdle Door

• Local Groups - new section added including First Responders, Garden Society, HM Coastguards, Over 60’s Club, The Lulworth Players, The Lulworth Society, Village History Group, Women’s Institute

• News  - new pages added for ‘Lulworth in the news’ and other news items

• Places - Newlands Farm - information on listed buildings and past residents including wartime memories of Lilian Pidgeon

 • Places - Local Landmarks - new section added including Bindon Hill, Dungy Head, Durdle Door, Fossil Forest, Hambury Tout, Mupe Bay, Scratchy Bottom, Stair Hole & St. Oswalds Bay


Added in June 2010:

• Families - Photograph of Solomon Selby & the Solomon Selby Clock - courtesy of of Mike Smith of the Portsmouth Royal Naval Dockyard Historical Trust



 

 





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For information on parish council matters, present day transport services, tourist accommodation and local businesses, village hall bookings etc., please visit the new West Lulworth Parish Council website


George and Mary Whittle moved to Sunnyside, West Lulworth before 1891. In 1911 the family were living at Redberry Cottage. This photograph, taken on the occasion of the wedding in 1913 of George and Mary’s eldest son William Whittle to Annie Stevens includes West Lulworth’s first car, owned by Fred Charles.

If you would like your family featured next, email info@westlulworth.org.uk today.