Aisholt, Somerset
Historical Description
Aisholt or Asholt, a parish in Somerset, 8 miles from Bridgewater station on the Bristol and Exeter section of the G.W.R. It has a post office under Bridgewater; money order and telegraph office, Nether Stowey. Acreage, 875; population of the civil parish, 82; of the ecclesiastical, 127. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £223. The church is good. It contains two new stained glass windows, and a new organ was erected in 1893. Detached parts of this parish were amalgamated with Spaxton in 1885.
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 | Aisholt All Saints | |
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 Aisholt 1654-1811, 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 Aisholt from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Aisholt, or Asholt (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Aisholt 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.