Cucklington, Somerset

Historical Description

Cucklington, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands on the boundary with Dorsetshire, 3½ miles from Wincanton station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, and was once a market-town. It has a post office under Bath; money order office, Wincanton; telegraph office, Sandley. Acreage of the civil parish, 1795; population, 290; of the ecclesiastical, 665. The living is a rectory, united with Stoke-Trister and Bayford, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; joint net value, £324. The church is Early English; consists of nave, aisles, transept, and chancel, with tower and spire, and is good. It was well restored in 1880.

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 Cucklington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cucklington (St. Lawrence))

Maps

Online maps of Cucklington 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.