Ashill Somerset Family History Guide

Ashill is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.

Parish church: St Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1558
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598

Nonconformists include:

Parishes adjacent to Ashill

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ASHILL, a village and a parish in Chard district, Somerset. The village stands near Chard canal, and near the Chard and Taunton railway, 4 miles NW of Ilminster, and 8 SSE of Taunton. It has a post office under Ilminster, and fairs on Easter-Wednesday, and on 12 Sept. or the following Wednesday. The parish comprises 1,790 acres. Real property, £3,324. Pop., 445. Houses, 92. The property is much subdivided. A spring which ebbs and flows is near the village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is ancient, and was recently restored.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Ashill, 3 miles N. W. Ilminster. P. 438.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ASHILL, a parish, in the union of Chard, hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, W. division of Somerset, 4 miles (N. W.) from Ilminster; containing 438 inhabitants. This place, which is situated on the road from Bridport to Taunton and Tiverton, belonged in the reign of Edward II. to Thomas de Multon, who obtained for the inhabitants the grant of a weekly market on Wednesday, and of fairs on the festivals of the Virgin Mary, St. Simon and St. Jude. A portion of ground which for many years has been contested by the parishes of Ashill and Broadway, was in 1685 the scene of a conflict between Monmouth, on his retreat from Sedgemoor, and a party of the king’s forces. The parish comprises by admeasurement 1790 acres of profitable land, under good cultivation; the scenery is pleasantly diversified, and in some parts enriched with wood. A fair is still held in the village on the Wednesday in Easter-week. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £6. 0. 10.; patron, the Prebendary of Ashill in the Cathedral of Wells. The great tithes have been commuted for £204. 10. 8., with a glebe of 60 acres; the vicarial tithes have been commuted for £118. 13. 4., and there are 24 acres of land attached, at Bewley Down, Dorset. Some remains exist of an ancient seat belonging to Nicholas Wadham, founder of Wadham College, Oxford. A chalybeate spring is carefully preserved.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Somerset, Ashill – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Ashill, 1841-1891 Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Somerset, Ashill – Church records ( 7 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Ashill, 1598-1757 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashill (Somersetshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Ashill, 1598-1832 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashill (Somersetshire)
The Church of St. Mary, Ashill Author: Booker, John M.
England, Somerset, Ashill, parish registers, 1558-1960 Author: Somerset Record Office
Marriages at Ashill, 1558-1815 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashill (Somersetshire)
Parish registers for Ashill, 1558-1885 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashill (Somersetshire)
Vestry minutes and other church papers, 1673-1869 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashill (Somersetshire)

England, Somerset, Ashill – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Ashill, Somerset, England

England, Somerset, Ashill – Land and property ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Ashill, 1766-1831 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Somersetshire)

England, Somerset, Ashill – Occupations ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1687-1832 Author: Ashill (Somerset)

England, Somerset, Ashill – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1687-1832 Author: Ashill (Somerset)

England, Somerset, Ashill – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Ashill, 1766-1831 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Somersetshire)
Vestry minutes and other church papers, 1673-1869 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashill (Somersetshire)

Administration

  • County: Somerset
  • Civil Registration District: Chard
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Ashill
  • Diocese: Bath and Wells
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Crewkerne
  • Poor Law Union: Chard
  • Hundred: Abdick and Bulstone
  • Province: Canterbury