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Melcombe Regis is an area of Weymouth in Dorset, England. Situated on the north shore of Weymouth Harbour and originally part of the waste of Radipole , [ clarification needed ] it seems only to have developed as a significant settlement and seaport in the 13th century.
Melcombe Regis is an electoral ward in Dorset. Since 2019, the ward has elected 1 councillor to Dorset Council. [1] Geography. The Melcombe Regis ward is based on ...
The modern town of Weymouth originated as the two settlements of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, on opposite sides of Weymouth Harbour in Dorset.The older of the two, on the south side, was referred to as Weymouth as early as the 10th century, as part of the parish of Wyke Regis, and by 1252 had become a chartered borough and established seaport, trading in imported wine.
Lyme Regis Friary [52] Lytchett Minster pre-conquest monastic or secular community Melcombe Priory, Melcombe Regis Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of London) founded 1418 by Rogers Esq. of Brianston; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir John Rogers 1543/4 Milton Friary; Melcombe Regis Friary [5] [53
The towns continued to send the same number of MPs to the unreformed House of Commons as they had before the merger - two for each. The borough was stripped of its double representation by the Reform Act 1832, which reduced it to two seats, and then was remodelled by the Municipal Reform Act 1835.
A church on the site of St Mary's dates back to the 13th-century, when a Chantry chapel was first recorded there in 1299. [2] A new church was built on the site in 1605, which replaced St Mary's at Radipole as the parish church of Melcombe Regis in 1606. [3]
Weymouth and Portland was a local government district with borough status in Dorset, England from 1974 to 2019. It consisted of the resort of Weymouth and the Isle of Portland, and includes the areas of Wyke Regis, Preston, Melcombe Regis, Upwey, Broadwey, Southill, Nottington, Westham, Radipole, Chiswell, Castletown, Fortuneswell, Weston, Southwell and Easton; the latter six being on the Isle ...
The neighbouring village of Overcombe/(Sutton Poyntz), the principal location of TM, is sometimes called Budmouth-Regis in Hardy's novels, but that is more precisely Melcombe Regis, where George III popularised the watering place; Weymouth is the other side of the river.(TM) Casterbridge: South Wessex: Dorchester