Thurloxton, Somerset
Historical Description
Thurloxton, a parish in Somerset, 3½ miles W by N of Durston Junction station on the G.W.R., 5½ SSW of Bridgwater, and 5½ from Taunton. It has a post office under Taunton; money order and telegraph office, North Petherton. Acreage, 563; population, 210. The manor belongs to Viscount Portman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £170 with residence. Patron, Viscount Portman. The church is an ancient building of stone, and has been enlarged.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Somersetshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Thurloxton St. Giles | |
Hundred | North Petherton | |
Poor Law union | Bridgwater |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Thurloxton 1559-1812, Somerset is available to browse online.
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Somerset Archives & Local Studies, have images of the Parish Registers for Somerset online.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Thurloxton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thurloxton (St. Giles))
Maps
Online maps of Thurloxton 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.