Bere Regis Village Website

Bere Regis 1871 Census


The 1871 census for England was taken on the night of 2 April 1871.
The information requested on the census included:

" Address (name of the street, avenue, or road; house number)
" Occupant (name of each person who spent the night in the house; their birthplace and relationship to head of family)
" Residence (whether home was inhabited; number of rooms occupied)
" Personal (sex, age, marital status)
" Occupation (whether employer, employee, or neither)
" Health (whether blind, deaf, dumb, imbecile, idiot, or lunatic)
Enumeration forms were distributed to all households a few days before the census night and the household members were required to complete the forms themselves.
The next day, the enumerators collected the completed forms.
All of the details from the individual forms were later sorted and copied into enumerators’ books.
The original census schedules that were completed by household members were destroyed.

Census records are divided into groups by county, then by parish, and in many cases, such as in Bere Regis, by Enumeration districts as well.
An enumeration district was considered to be roughly equivalent to the area that a census worker or "enumerator" could cover in one day.

Our village was split into 2 Enumeration districts.
They are outlined below

The files are all included in one VERY LARGE PDF file

Enumeration District A

Covers the Parish of Bere Regis from Battrick Cottage through West Street & North Street to Chaffreys House, Towns End, Court Farm, Mr Scutts House to Snow Hill, Barrow Hill, Butt Lane & Mr Scutts New Buildings in the Bere Field, Shitterton Hamlet, West Roke Cottages, Roke Down, Roke Farm (& Cottages), Bere Down Cottages, Broadwater Cottage & Old Mill House


Enumerator - Henry Hallett

Enumeration District B

Covers Southbrook Cottages, Rye Hill Farms (& Cottages), Joiners Cottage, Bucket Hill Cottages, Hollow Oak Farm (& Cottages), Doddings Mill Farm (& Cottages), Brick Hill, Snaford and Bere Heath Cottages, Philiols, Stockley and Culeaze Farms (& Cottages), Lane End Cottages, Chamberlaines Mill Farm (& Cottages), Warren Keepers Cottage, Buddens Farm, Hyde Houses Lodge (& Cottages), Lodge on Wareham Road, Keepers Cottages in Bere Wood and Woodbury Hill


Enumerator - John Hallett