Ashwick, Somerset Family History Guide

Ashwick is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Somerset, created in 1826 from chapelry in Kilmersdon Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Oakhill.

Status: Ecclesiastical Parish

Parish church: St. James

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1701
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1595

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian, Protestant Dissenters, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Parishes adjacent to Ashwick

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ASHWICK, a parish in Shepton-Mallet district, Somerset; on the Fosseway, near Masbury camp, 3¾ miles NNE of Shepton-Mallet r. station. It includes part of the hamlet of Oakhill, which has a post office under Bath. Acres, 1,525. Real property, £4,179. Pop., 778. Houses, 201. The property is divided among ten. Ashwick Grove is the seat of the Stracheys. Coal is worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £113. Patron, the Vicar of Kilmersdon. The church is good; and there are three dis senting chapels, and charities £13.

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

Ashwick, 4 miles N.N.E. Shepton-Mallet. P. 945.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ASHWICK (St. James), a parish, in the union of Shepton-Mallet, hundred of Kilmersdon, E. division of Somerset, 3¾ miles (N. by E.) from Shepton-Mallet; comprising 1527a. 2r. 34p., and containing 945 inhabitants. There are many quarries, supplying a material for building and for making lime. At the village of Oakhill, which stands partly in this parish and partly in Stoke-Lane and Shepton-Mallet, are some good residences, and a public brewery; and the road from Bath to Exeter, and another from Bristol to Weymouth, run through the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £113; patron, the Vicar of Kilmersdon; impropriator, J. Twyford Jolliffe, Esq. The great tithes have been commuted for £28. 10., and those of the incumbent for £59. 15.; the glebe consists of 2½ acres. The curacy was separated from the vicarage of Kilmersdon in 1826, at which time also the church was rebuilt, with the exception of the tower; it is a neat structure, accommodating about 550 persons. There are places of worship for Independents, Unitarians, and Methodists. On the south-western side of the parish, near the Fosseway, is a Roman camp, with a double intrenchment, called Masbury Castle.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

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

England, Somerset, Ashwick – Church records ( 7 )
Births, baptisms and burials, 1761-1837 Author: Presbyterian Church (Ashwick, Somerset)
Bishop’s transcripts for Ashwick, 1595-1812 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashwick (Somersetshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Ashwick, 1595-1873 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashwick (Somersetshire)
Churchwardens’ accounts, 1724-1825 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashwick (Somersetshire)
England, Somerset, Shepton Mallet, Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, Church records, 1838-1907 Author: Wesleyan Church. Shepton Mallet Circuit (Gloucestershire); Bristol Record Office (Gloucestershire)
Parish registers for Ashwick, 1701-1900 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ashwick (Somersetshire)
Parish registers for Oakhill, 1866-1901 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Oakhill (Somersetshire)

England, Somerset, Ashwick – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Ashwick, Somerset, England
Parish register printouts of Ashwick, Somerset, England (Presbyterian) ; christenings, 1761-1837 Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

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

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