Buckland Dinham, Somerset Family History Guide

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Buckland Dinham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.

Alternative names: Buckland Denham

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1540
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1603

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Buckland Dinham Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers.

Buckland Dinham Somerset Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1531-1812

Buckland Dinham Somerset Church of England Baptisms 1813-1914

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Buckland Dinham Somerset Marriage Registers Bonds and Allegations 1754-1914

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Buckland Dinham Somerset Church of England Burials 1813-1914

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BUCKLAND-DENHAM, a village and a parish in Frome district, Somerset. The village stands near the Frome river, 2½ miles NNW of Frome r. station; and has a post-office under Frome. It formerly was a market-town; and still has a fair on 10 Oct. The parish comprises 1,399 acres. Real property, £2,444. Pop., 459. Houses, 108. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £181. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church was recently restored. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £11.

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

Maps

National Library of Scotland Maps – includes OS 25 inch 1892-1918 maps, a vast range of other historical OS maps and land use maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

  • County: Somerset
  • Civil Registration District: Frome
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Buckland Dinham
  • Diocese: Bath and Wells
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Frome
  • Poor Law Union: Frome
  • Hundred: Kilmersdon
  • Province: Canterbury