Leigh Parish Dorset

	Leigh is a parish and a village 6 miles south west from Sherborne. To the north is Lillington with Holnest and Hilfield to the east, Batcombe to the south, with Chetnole and Yetminster to the west. Leigh was formerly a chapelry of Yetminster but was made a separate parish in 1842 and the vicarage was not built until 1857. The church of St Andrew had a nave, north aisle, south porch and embattled tower with pinnacles. The registers date from 1842, the registers of Yetminster date from 1683. There is a Wesleyan chapel, a school built in 1861, a police station and a post office. The parish covers 2025 acres and is mainly laid to grass. The population in 1891 was 395. Totnell is a hamlet in the parish.
The Online Parish Clerk (OPC) for Leigh is Lynne Penny Click on Lynne's name above to generate a correctly addressed email
Census	1841 Census is on site 1851 Census is on site 1861 Census is on site 1871 Census is on site 1881 Census 1891 Census is on site
Parish Registers	The parish registers date from 1842, the following have been transcribed so far: Baptisms 1677-1720, 1721-1760, 1761-1779, 1779-1846, 1847-1911 Marriages 1678-1799, 1801-1837, 1837-1849, 1849 - 1911 Burials 1847 - 1870, 1871-1911 Earlier records are in the Yetminster registers
Monumental Inscriptions	St Andrew's Monumental Inscriptions index
Postal Directories
Rectors	A full list of Vicars of the Parish
Photographs	A collection of photographs of the church & village
Other Records	Dorset Militia List 1798 Absent Voters 1918
Maps	The 1891 Ordnance Survey maps of the parish can be seen at the old-maps site, just enter 'Leigh' under place search.
	For modern location maps visit:- www.multimap.com