Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset

Historical Description

Shepton Beauchamp, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, 4 miles WSW of Martock station on the G.W.R., and 4 ENE of Ilminster. It has a post and money order office under Ilminster; telegraph office, South Petherton. Acreage, 841; population, 670. There is a parish council of five members and a chairman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £240. The church is Later English. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a home for girls.

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

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Shepton Beauchamp 1558-1812, Somerset is available to browse online.

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 Shepton Beauchamp from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shepton-Beauchamp (St. Michael))
• Kelly's Directory of Somerset, 1914

Maps

Online maps of Shepton Beauchamp 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.