Walton in Gordano, Somerset
Historical Description
Walton-in-Gordano, a parish in Somerset, on the coast, 1¾ mile NE of Clevedon station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Clevedon; money order and telegraph office, Clevedon. Acreage, 1263; population, 705. The manor belongs to the baronet family of Miles. Walton Castle belonged to the Mortimers, passed to the Seymours, the Thynnes, and others, and is now an extensive ruin. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £150 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1870, and has an embattled western tower; an ancient stone cross, 20 feet in height, stands in the churchyard. The church of St Peter and St Paul, Old Walton, was rebuilt in 1839 and restored in 1874; it is a small building of stone in the Early English style. A convalescent home was erected in 1873.
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 | Walton-In-Gordano St. Paul | |
Hundred | Portbury | |
Poor Law union | Bedminster |
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 Walton in Gordano from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Walton-In-Gordano (St. Paul))
Maps
Online maps of Walton in Gordano 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.