Timberscombe, Somerset

Historical Description

Timberscombe, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, 3 miles from Dunster station on the G.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Dunster; telegraph office, Dunster. Acreage, 2858; population of the civil parish, 382; of the ecclesiastical, 307. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £250. Patron, the Bishop. The church is of the 14th century, and was well restored in 1882. There is a Bible Christian chapel.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Timberscombe from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Timberscombe 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.