Emborrow, Somerset

Historical Description

Emborrow or Emborough, a parish in Somerset, under the Mendip Hills, 1½ mile from Binegar station on the Somerset and Dorset railway. It has a post office under Bath; money order office, Chewton Mendip; telegraph office, Midsomer Norton. Acreage, 1877; population, 131. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Chewton Mendip, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £250. The church is small, and was restored in 1886.

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 Emborrow from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Emborough, In and Out (St. Mary))

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.