Camerton, Somerset
Historical Description
Camerton, a parish in Somersetshire, on the Fosse Way, and on the G.W.R., 123 miles from London. The parish includes part of Carlingcott hamlet. It has a post office under Bath; money order and telegraph office, Timsbury. Acreage, 1782; population of the civil parish, 1877; of the ecclesiastical, 866. Camerton Park is the seat of the Jarrett family. Coal is worked. Roman pottery, glass, and other relics, and remains of Roman villas have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £393 with residence. The church was restored and a new chancel built in 1891-92. It contains several very fine tombs of the Carews. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans.
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 | Camerton St. Peter | |
Hundred | Wellow | |
Poor Law union | Clutton |
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 Camerton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Camerton (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Camerton 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.