Woolavington, Somerset
Historical Description
Woolavington, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, 2 miles from Cossington station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, and 4½ NW of Bridgwater. It has a post office under Bridgwater; money order office, Dunball; telegraph office, Cossington railway station. Acreage, 1708; population of the civil parish, 293; of the ecclesiastical, 314. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £162 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is good, and was thoroughly restored in 1882. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Somerset | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Woolavington St. Mary | |
Hundred | Whitley | |
Poor Law union | Bridgwater |
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 Woolavington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Woolavington (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Woolavington 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.