Gussage St Andrew, Dorset Genealogy

Guide to Gussage St Andrew, Dorset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
GUSSAGE St Andrew, a tything and a chapelry in Handley parish, Dorset. The tything is conjoint with Minchington, and lies 5½ miles W by N of Cranborne, and 8 NE of Blandford railway station. The chapelry bears the name of Gussage St. Andrew; and its post town is Gussage, under Cranborne.

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Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

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