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Clutton, Somerset

Historical Description

Clutton, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands near Highbury Camp, 3 miles S of Pensford, with a station on the G.W.R., 121 from London, and has a post and money order office under Bristol; telegraph office, Temple Cloud. The parish comprises 1698 acres; population, 1095. There are extensive collieries. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £115 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Warwick. The church is Norman, with a modern tower, and there are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels. A school has £20 from endowment, and other charities. There is a workhouse in the parish.

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 parishClutton St. Augustine 
HundredChew 
Poor Law unionClutton 

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 Clutton from the following:


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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CountyBath and North East Somerset
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtBS39
Post TownBristol

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