Easthams, Somerset
Historical Description
Easthams, a tithing in Crewkerne parish, Somerset, near Crewkerne. It was formerly a parish, and the living is now a sinecure rectory in the diocese of Bath and "Wells.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Somersetshire | |
Civil parish | Crewkerne | |
Hundred | Crewkerne | |
Poor Law union | Chard |
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 Easthams from the following:
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.