Description
Radipole, a village and a parish in Dorsetshire. The village stands on the river Wey, at the inlet to Weymouth Harbour, 2 miles NNW of Weymouth station on The G.W.R.; is embowered in trees, and has a sulphurous mineral spring. Post town, Weymouth. The parish is partly within Weymouth borough, and comprises 1333 acres; population of the civil parish, 1782; of the ecclesiastical, with Melcombe Regis, 5754. The manor belonged to Cerne Abbey. Villas and other houses have been built on the road leading to Weymouth. A pretty walk goes along the shore toward Weymouth. The living is a rectory, annexed to Melcombe Regis, in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £280 with residence. Tha church has been restored. The churchyard contains the graves of eighty persons, drowned in the wreck of the Abergavenny, off Portland, in 1805.
Parish Church
The church of St. Mary, the mother church to Melcombe Regis, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and a western turret: the roof of the church was restored in 1893: there are 250 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1560. The earliest registers are kept at St. Mary's, Melcombe Regis.
