Ashington Somerset Family History Guide

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Ashington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.

Parish church: St. Vincent

Parish registers begin:

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

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Adjacent Parishes

Ashington Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers.

Ashington Somerset Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1531-1812

Marriage and Banns Records

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Ashington Somerset Marriage Registers Bonds and Allegations 1754-1914

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ASHINGTON, a parish in Yeovil district, Somerset; on the river Yeo, and on the Durston and Yeovil railway, 3½ miles N of Yeovil. Post Town, Ilchester under Taunton. Acres, 554. Real property, with Draycott, £1,957. Pop., 57. Houses, 10. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £162. Patron, not reported. The church is good.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ASHINGTON (St. Vincent), a parish, in the union of Yeovil, hundred of Stone, W. division of Somerset, 3 miles (E. S. E.) from Ilchester; comprising by computation 560 acres, and containing 71 inhabitants. The parish is finely wooded and fertile, the land rising gently from the river Yeo, which bounds it on the east and north; and looking over a rich and extensive vale, the view is terminated at unequal distances by a bold range of hills from the south-east to the north-west.

The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £6. 3. 4., and in the patronage of the family of Williams: the tithes have been commuted for £125, and there are 32 acres of glebe, with a house. The church is a small neat structure, having a turret with two bells; at the eastern end, on the outside, is a small niche with three human figures, which admit a conjecture that they refer to the history of St. Vincent, who was burnt alive at Valentia, in Spain, in the year 304.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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Administration

  • County: Somerset
  • Civil Registration District: Yeovil
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Wells
  • Diocese: Bath and Wells
  • Rural Deanery: Merston
  • Poor Law Union: Yeovil
  • Hundred: Stone
  • Province: Canterbury