Hardington Mandeville, Somerset

Historical Description

Hardington Mandeville, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village is 3 miles from Sutton Bingham station on the L. & S.W.R., 2 from the boundary with Dorsetshire, and 4 SW of Yeovil, and has a post office of the name of Harding-ton, under Yeovil; money order and telegraph office, West Coker. Acreage, 2677; population, 459. The manor belongs to Viscount Portman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value,, £380 with residence. The church, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1864, and is in the Decorated English style. There is a Bible Christian 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 Hardington Mandeville from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Hardington Mandeville 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.