Theale, Somerset

Historical Description

Theale, an ecclesiastical district in Wedmore parish, Somerset, 4½ miles NNE of Shapwick station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint railway, and 5½ W of Wells. It has a post office under Cheddar; money order and telegraph office, Wedmore. It was constituted in 1844. Population, 645. For civil purposes Theale sends three members to the Wedmore parish council. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Wedmore. The church is modern.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Theale from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Theale)

Maps

Online maps of Theale 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.