Stowey, Somerset

Historical Description

Stowey, a parish in Somerset, l¼ mile from Glutton station on the G.W.R. Post town, Clutton, under Bristol; money order and telegraph office, Bishops Sutton, Somerset. Acreage, 1269; population, 183. Sutton Court, the seat of the Strachey family, is in the parish. The living is a rectory or discharged vicarage, held with Bishops Sutton, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £160 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is dedicated to St Nicholas and St Mary.

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 Stowey from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Stowey are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey 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.