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West Lulworth

Part of the Dorset OPC network

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Added in October 2011

• Families - The Whittle Family courtesy of Roy Martin

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.

Welcome

Introduction to West Lulworth

 

 

West Lulworth is a coastal parish surrounded by Chaldon Herring on the west and then Winfrith Newburgh and East Lulworth. The village is close to the shore and the renowned circular bay called Lulworth Cove. The Church of the Holy Trinity has registers dating form the 16th century, there is also a Congregational Chapel built in 1835. St Andrews, Burngate, Bindon Hill and Belhuish are hamlets in the parish. There is a school built in 1862 and a Coastguard Station. Population in 1891 was 464.
                                                                                         Information from Kelly's Directory 1895

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Added in February 2012

• Families - The Williams Family courtesy of Victoria Thorpe

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

Victoria Thorpe’s great grandmother, Amy Williams, was born Amy Esther James in Paddington, West London on 30 January 1863. She became nursemaid to the wealthy Hambro family of London bankers in the early 1880’s and accompanied them on holiday to Lulworth. There she met Robert Orchard Williams and on 27 November 1884 they married and moved into a cottage adjoining the Castle Inn.

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1914 ELECTORS

OLD GRAVEYARD MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS

BAPTISMS* FROM 1837 to 1905

*These are currently being checked and are available for look up now by emailing info@westlulworth.org.uk