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Street, Somerset

Historical Description

Street, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, 1½ mile SSW of Glastonbury and Street station on the Somerset and; Dorset railway, and 131 miles from London. It has a post,. money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 2714; population of the civil parish, 3517; of ecclesiastical, 3535. There are extensive boot and shoe, and sheepskin and rug manufactories, also stone quarries (blue lias). The Crispin Hall Club and Institute is a handsome building of stone erected in 1885, and has a large hall capable of holding 800 persons, a smaller hall and gymnasium, library and museum. There is a district council which acts as the sanitary authority. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £290. Patron, the Marquis of Bath. The church is Later English. There are Congregational, Baptist, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels.

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 parishStreet Holy Trinity 
HundredWhitley 
Poor Law unionWells 

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 Street from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Street are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Somerset papers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Somersetshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictMendip
CountySomerset
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtBA3
Post TownRadstock

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