Chideock
Chideock | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Bridport | |
Postcode district | DT6 | |
Police | Dorset | |
Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire | |
Ambulance | South Western | |
UK Parliament |
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Website | Village website | |
Chideock (
Chideock's economy mostly comprises agriculture (arable and pastoral) and tourism. The parish includes part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site.
During much of its history Chideock has had a strong tradition of Catholicism; in the late 16th century four Chideock men were executed for their faith and became known as the Chideock Martyrs. There is a memorial to the men in the village.
The A35 trunk road passes through the village, which means the main street can have high volumes of traffic.
History
In 1086 Chideock was recorded in the
During the
In 1802 the Arundells were succeeded by the Weld family of Lulworth Castle who in 1810 built Chideock Manor.[2] The Welds were also Catholic and in 1870-2 Charles Weld designed and built the village's Roman Catholic church in an unusual Romanesque style. It is dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, and St Ignatius and remains in trust to the Weld family.[2][6]
Among other surviving relics claimed by this location is St. Thomas More's hair shirt, sent to Margaret Roper the day before his martyrdom and later presented for safe keeping by Margaret Clement.[7] This was long in the custody of the community of Augustinian canonesses who, until 1983, lived at the convent at Abbotskerswell Priory, Devon.[8][9] More recent sources, however, state that the shirt is now preserved at the Roman Catholic Buckfast Abbey, part of a Benedictine monastery, in Devon.[10][11][12]
Governance
Chideock is in the
Geography
Chideock is situated in the
Demography
Dorset County Council's 2013 estimate of the parish population is 550.[1]
The population of the parish in the censuses between 1921 and 2001 is shown in the table below:
Census Population of Chideock Parish 1921—2001 (except 1941) | ||||||||||||||
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Census | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | ||||||
Population | 548 | 542 | 610 | 559 | 560 | 650 | 690 | 600 | ||||||
Source:Dorset County Council[14] |
Results of the
Transport
The A35 trunk road between
References
- ^ a b "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
- ^ ISBN 0-7091-8135-3.
- ^ ISBN 0-7063-5494-X.
- ^ a b c d e f g Peter Booton (May 2012). "Booton Foot Trails: Chideock, Golden Cap and Seatown". Dorset Life Magazine. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
- ISBN 0-7153-6371-9.
- ^ "History - Chideock Martyrs Church". Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ "St. Thomas More". Catholic Encyclopaedia..
- ISBN 978-0-7524-6265-3.
- ISBN 978-0-85244-603-4.
- ^ "With public rosaries, priest prays for peace, healing after shooting". 15 April 2021. Archived from the original on 22 November 2016.
- ^ "St Thomas More's Hair Shirt Enshrined for Public Veneration – Royal Central". royalcentral.co.uk. Archived from the original on 27 November 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "Hair-shirt worn by St Thomas More is enshrined for public veneration for possibly the first time - the Diocese of Shrewsbury - the Diocese of Shrewsbury". Archived from the original on 25 September 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ^ "Chideock and Symondsbury ward 2011". Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^ "Parishes (A-L), 1921-2001- Census Years". Dorset County Council. 17 March 2010. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
- ^ "Area: Chideock (Parish). Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
- ^ ISBN 9781608196722.
- ^ "Protest pensioner halts traffic". 5 May 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2016 – via bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Light at the end of tunnel for Dorset road campaign?". 3 June 2011. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2016.