Withypool, Somerset

Historical Description

Withypoole, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, adjoining Exmoor Forest, 8 miles from Dulverton station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Taunton; money order office, Exford; telegraph office, Dulverton. Acreage, 3900; population of the civil parish, 197; of the ecclesiastical, 299. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to Hawkridge. The church is Early English, and was restored in 1887. A small Wesleyan chapel was erected in 1881.

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 Withypool from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Withypoole (St. Andrew))

Maps

Online maps of Withypool 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.