Bathealton, Somerset

Historical Description

Bathealton, a parish in Somerset, 4 miles from Milver-ton station on the G.W.R., and 6 from Wellington. Acreage, 946; population, 123. There is a post office under Wiveliscombe (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £215. The church was rebuilt about 50 years ago, and is very good. Some remains of an old British camp are on a hill in the parish. Sharp's charity is distributed to needy inhabitants each year in the church porch on Candlemas Day. Bathealton Court is the chie½ residence.

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 Bathealton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bathealton, or Badialton (St. Bartholomew))

Maps

Online maps of Bathealton 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.