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Compton Dundon, Somerset

Historical Description

Compton-Dunden, a parish in Somerset, on the river Carey, 2¼ miles NNW of Somerton, and 4 S by W of Glas-tonbury station on the Somerset and Dorset railway. It includes the tithings of Compton and Dunden, and the hamlet of Littleton, and its post town is Somerton, under Taunton; money order and telegraph office, Somerton. Acreage, 2759; population, 504. The manor-house has been partitioned into small dwellings, and an out-building of it contains a richly-carved, ancient, circular window. Dunden Beacon, adjacent to it, is an entrenched eminence 360 feet high. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £278. Patron, the Bishop of London. The church is old but good. There is a Congregational chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient CountySomersetshire 
Ecclesiastical parishCompton-Dundon St. Andrew 
HundredWhitley 
Poor Law unionLangport 

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.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Compton Dundon from the following:


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Somersetshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictSouth Somerset
CountySomerset
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtTA11
Post TownSomerton

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