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Wrington, Somerset

Historical Description

Wrington, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands on a hill-slope, 3¾ miles SE of Yatton station on the G.W.R., and 6½ NNE of Axbridge. It was once a market-town and a seat of petty sessions, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office and two reading-rooms. The parish includes three hamlets, and comprises 5913 acres; population of civil parish, 1472; of ecclesiastical, 1316. Cowslip Lodge and Barley Wood, both built by Hannah More, Westhay, The Grove, and Havyatt Lodge are the chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £385 with residence. The church is a very fine edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, with a magnificent western embattled tower, and was well restored in 1862-63. A chapel of ease is at Redhill, and there are Wesleyan and Congregational chapels. Locke the philosopher was a native.

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 parishWrington All Saints 
HundredBrent with Wrington 
Poor Law unionAxbridge 

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 Wrington from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Wrington are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Somerset papers online:


Visitations Heraldic

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

CountyNorth Somerset
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtBS40
Post TownBristol

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