West Chinnock, Somerset
Historical Description
Chinnock, West, a village and a parish in Somerset, on the river Parrett, 3 miles from Crewkerne station on the L. & S.W.R., with a post office under Ilminster; money order and telegraph office, Merriott. Acreage, 1161; population, 511. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the rectory of Chiselborough; joint value, £400. Patron, the Earl of Ilchester. The church is good, having been completely restored in 1889. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | West Chinnock St. Mary | |
Hundred | Houndsborough | |
Poor Law union | Yeovil |
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 West Chinnock from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Chinnock, West (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of West Chinnock 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.