Butccombe, Somerset

Historical Description

Butccombe, a parish in Somersetshire, near the river Yeo, 5 miles from Sandford and Banwell station on the G.W.R., and 8 NE of Axbridge. It has a post office under Wrington (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Blagdon. Acreage, 1110; population of the civil parish, 208; of the ecclesiastical, 189. Butcombe Court is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £127 with residence. The church is very ancient, and in good condition. There are remains of a Friend's burial-ground.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Butccombe from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Butcombe (St. Michael,)

Maps

Online maps of Butccombe 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.