Nettlecombe, Somerset

Historical Description

Nettlecombe, a parish in Somerset, 1 mile from Road-water station on the West Somerset Mineral railway, and 2½ miles N by W of Wiveliscombe. Post town, Taunton; money order and telegraph office, Williton. It contains the hamlets of Baggearn Huish, Egypt, Coulton, Clitsome, Harpers, Holcombe Water, Ton", Slade, Vample Cross, Yean, andWoodford. Acreage, 3073; population of the civil parish, 269; of the ecclesiastical, 259. The manor, with Nettlecombe Court, belongs to the Trevelyan family. Nettlecombe Court is a very fine mansion, contains a grant deed of Nettlecombe estate of the time of Henry II., a miniature portrait of Charles I. worked with his own hair, and many other curiosities, and stands amid extensive and beautiful grounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £500 witli residence. The church consists of nave, aisles, and cliancel, with porch and tower.

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 Nettlecombe from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Nettlecombe 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.