Aller, Somerset
Historical Description
Aller, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands near the river Parret, and the Durston and Yeovil branch of the G.W.R., 2½ miles N of Langport; and has a post office under Langport, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 3605; population of the civil parish, 444; of the ecclesiastical, 429. This is said to be the place where Guthrum and his Danes were baptized after their defeat by Alfred at Edington. The parish includes also the tithing of Oath. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £480. Patron, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church was restored in 1861. There is a Congregational chapel. Dr Ralph Cudworth, the author of the "Intellectual System of the Universe," was a native, and his father was rector. A detachment of Goring's army was defeated, in 1645, on Aller Moor.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Somersetshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Aller St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Somerton | |
Poor Law union | Langford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Somerset Archives & Local Studies, have images of the Parish Registers for Somerset online.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Aller from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Aller (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Aller are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Somerset papers online:
- Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette
- Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser
- Western Gazette
- Wells Journal
- Somerset County Gazette
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Somersetshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.