Chilton Cantilo, Somerset

Historical Description

Chilton-Cantelo, a parish in Somerset, on the river Yeo, 5 miles N of Yeovil station on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R. Post town, Ilchester; money order and telegraph office, Rimbton. Acreage, 634; population of the civil parish, 116; of the ecclesiastical, 148. The living is a rectory, with that of Ashington annexed, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; joint net value, £204. The church is very good.

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

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Chilton Cantilo from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Chilton-Cantilo (St. James))

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.