West Quantoxhead, Somerset

Historical Description

Quantoxhead, West, or West Quantockshead St Audries, a parish in Somerset, on the coast, under the end of the Quantock Hills, 2 miles E by N of Williton station on the G.W.R., and 2 E by S of Watchet. It has a post office under Bridgwater; money order office, St Audries; telegraph office, Williton. Acreage, 1467; population, 248. The manor, with St Audries House, belongs to the Hood family. Weacombe House is a seat in the neighbourhood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £190. The church was rebuilt in 1856 at a cost of £8000, and consists of nave, aisles, chancel, chantry-chapel, crypt, and porch, with a tower.

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 West Quantoxhead from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Quantoxhead, West (St. Ethelred))

Maps

Online maps of West Quantoxhead 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.