Winsford, Somerset

Historical Description

Winsford, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, 5 miles N by W of Dulverton station on the G.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Dulverton; telegraph office, Dulverton. Acreage, 8740; population, 418. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the baronet family of Acland. Iron ore was formerly worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £360. Patron, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, and was thoroughly restored in 1891. A Wesleyan chapel was erected in 1889.

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 Winsford from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Winsford (St. Mary Magdalene))

Maps

Online maps of Winsford 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.