Ditcheat, Somerset

Historical Description

Ditcheat, a tithing and a parish in Somerset. The tithing lies on the Fosse Way, near the river Brue, 1¼ mile from Evercreech station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, and 5 S by E of Shepton Mallet, and has a post office under Bath; money order and telegraph office, Evercreech. The parish includes also the tithings of Allhampton and Lottisham, and the hamlet of Wraxhall. Area, 3703 acres; population, 718. Ditcheat Manor, the seat of the Dawe family, is in the neighbourhood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £565 with residence. The church is Early English, and consists of nave, aisles, and transept, with porch and tower. 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 Ditcheat from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Ditcheat 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.