Combwich, Somerset

Historical Description

Combwich, Combewick, or Cummidge, a village on the river Parret, in Somerset, 6 miles NNW of Bridgewater station on the G.W.R. It has a post office of the name of Combwich under Bridgewater, and is a sub-port to that town. A Rosicrucian chemist of the 16th century lived and died here. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Somerset Archives & Local Studies, have images of the Parish Registers for Somerset online.

Maps

Online maps of Combwich 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.