Priddy, Somerset
Historical Description
Priddy, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, on the top of the Mendip Hills, 4 miles from Westbury or Lodge Hill station on the Cheddar Valley branch of the G.W.R. There is a post office under Wells; money order and telegraph office, Wells. Acreage, 1375; population of the civil parish, 199; of the ecclesiastical, 406. There is a Roman camp. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £290 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, and contains some slabs to the Hopkins family; the building was restored at considerable expense in 1883. There is an old building known as the " Round House," and once used as a farmhouse. A fair is held on 21 Aug.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Somersetshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Priddy St. Lawrence | |
| Hundred | Wells-Forum | |
| Poor Law union | Wells |
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.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Priddy from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Priddy (St. Lawrence))
Maps
Online maps of Priddy 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.