West Coker, Somerset
Historical Description
Coker, West, a parish in Somerset, 2¼ miles from Sutton Bingham station on the L. & S.W.R., and 3 W by S of Yeovil. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Yeovil. Acreage, 1419; population, 892. West Coker House, Westlake, and Brotherton, are the chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £392 with residence. The church is Later English. There are a Wcsleyan chapel and a working men's reading-room. Twine is manufactured.
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 Coker St. Martin | |
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 Coker from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Coker, West (St. Martin))
Maps
Online maps of West Coker 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.