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CHIDEOCK, a parish in Bridport district, Dorset; on the coast, 2½ miles W of Bridport. It has a post office under Bridport town and r. station. Acres, , 052; of which 70 are water. Real property, with Stanton-St. Gabriel, £, 309. Pop., 794. Houses, 187. The property is divided among a few. Chideock House is the seat of the Welds. A Roman road crosses the parish westwards; and a streamlet traverses a deep valley southward to the sea, near Down Cliffs. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Whitchurch-Canoni-curum, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is pretty good; and there are chapels for Baptists and Roman Catholics.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Chideock Parish Bridport Poor Law Union/Registration District Dorset Ancient County |
| Place: | Chideock |
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