Queen Camel, Somerset
Historical Description
Camel, Queen, a village and a parish in Somersetshire. The village stands near the river Yeo, on an affluent of that river, 1 mile SW of Sparkford station on the G.W.R., and 6 miles ENE of Ilchester. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bath. Acreage of parish, 2303; population, 502. A sulphurous spring of some note is half a mile to the west. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £200 with residence. The church is very good, and was restored by Pearson in 1887 at a cost of £3000.
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 | Queen Camel St. Barnabas | |
Hundred | Catsash | |
Poor Law union | Wincanton |
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 Queen Camel from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Camel, Queen (St. Barnabas))
Maps
Online maps of Queen Camel 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.