Chewton Mendip, Somerset

Historical Description

Chewton-Mendip, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village lies on a spur of the Mendip Hills, 3 miles from Binegar station on the Somerset and Dorset railway. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bath. It was the Ciwtune of Alfred's will. Acreage, 5855; population of the civil parish, 687; of the ecclesiastical, 897. The parish includes also the tithing of North Widcombe. Chew-ton Priory is a seat on the site of an ancient monastery. There are lime works and quarries. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Emborough, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £249 with residence. The church is partly Norman, and has a very fine Late English tower, 126 feet high. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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.

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 Chewton Mendip from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Chewton-Mendip (St. Mary Magdalene))

Maps

Online maps of Chewton Mendip 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.