Burrington, Somerset Family History Guide

Burrington is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Somerset, created in 1758 from chapelry in Wrington Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Berington

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1685
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599

Nonconformists include: Society of Friends/Quaker and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BURRINGTON, a village and a parish in Axbridge district, Somerset. The village stands amid romantic scenery, at the northern skirt of the highest part of the Mendip hills, 5 miles NE by N of Axbridge, and 5½ SE of Yatton r. station; and has a post-office, of the name of Burrington, Somerset. The parish comprises 2,009 acres. Real property, £2,455. Pop., 477. Houses, 106. The property is divided among a few. A romantic rocky hollow leads from the village up the Mendips; and is flanked by ribbed masses of mountain limestone. A descending cavern, at the side of this, about a ¼ of a mile from the village, was discovered in 1795 to contain about fifty human skeletons, supposed to have been entombed here by the ancient Britons; and discovered afterwards to contain bones of horses, sheep, and other animals, supposed to have taken refuge in it after it ceased to be a place of sepulture. An earthwork, called Burrington Ham, occurs on a hill further up; and is Thought to have been a scene of Druidical rites. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £147. Patrons, the Inhabitants. The church is later English, and was restored in 1856. There are a national school and charities £18.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Somerset, Burrington – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Burrington, 1598-1868
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Burrington (Somersetshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Burrow-Bridge (Somersetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts and vestry minutes, 1605-1861
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Burrington (Somersetshire)

England, Somerset, Burrington, parish registers, 1687-1945
Author: Somerset Record Office

Parish registers for Burrington, 1687-1945
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Burrington (Somersetshire)

Transcript of the bishop’s transcripts and the baptism, marriage and burial registers of the Holy Trinity Church, Parish of Burrington, Somerset
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Burrington (Somersetshire); White, Theodore

England, Somerset, Burrington – Land and property ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Burrington, 1766-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Somersetshire)

England, Somerset, Burrington – Occupations ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1619-1836
Author: Burrington (Somerset)

England, Somerset, Burrington – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1619-1836
Author: Burrington (Somerset)

England, Somerset, Burrington – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Burrington, 1766-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Somersetshire)

Maps

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

Administration

  • County: Somerset
  • Civil Registration District: Axbridge
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Bath and Wells (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Bath and Wells
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Redcliffe and Bedminster, Post-1846 – Chew
  • Poor Law Union: Axbridge
  • Hundred: Brent with Wrington
  • Province: Canterbury