Wrington, Somerset
Historical Description
Wrington, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands on a hill-slope, 3¾ miles SE of Yatton station on the G.W.R., and 6½ NNE of Axbridge. It was once a market-town and a seat of petty sessions, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office and two reading-rooms. The parish includes three hamlets, and comprises 5913 acres; population of civil parish, 1472; of ecclesiastical, 1316. Cowslip Lodge and Barley Wood, both built by Hannah More, Westhay, The Grove, and Havyatt Lodge are the chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £385 with residence. The church is a very fine edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, with a magnificent western embattled tower, and was well restored in 1862-63. A chapel of ease is at Redhill, and there are Wesleyan and Congregational chapels. Locke the philosopher was a native.
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 | Wrington All Saints | |
Hundred | Brent with Wrington | |
Poor Law union | Axbridge |
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.
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 Wrington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wrington (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Wrington 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.