Fiddington, Somerset
Historical Description
Fiddington, a parish in Somerset, 3½ miles SSW of Bridgwater Bay, and 7 WNW of Bridgwater town and station on the G.W.R. Post town, Bridgwater. Acreage, 1314; population of the civil parish, 249; of the ecclesiastical, 194. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £196 with residence. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.
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 | Fiddington St. Martin | |
Hundred | Cannington | |
Poor Law union | Bridgwater |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Fiddington 1706-1812, Somerset is available to browse online.
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 Fiddington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fiddington (St. Martin))
Maps
Online maps of Fiddington 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.