Chew Magna, Somerset Family History Guide

Chew Magna or Bishops Chew is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset. Dundry is a chapelry of Chew Magna.

Other places in the parish include: Stone, North Elm, Bishop Sutton, Knighton Sutton, and Knowle.

Alternative names: Bishops Chew

Parish registers begin:

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

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

Adjacent Parishes

• Chew Stoke
• Dundry
• Norton Malreward
• Compton Martin
• Cameley
• Hinton Blewitt
• Whitchurch
• Clutton
• Chelwood
• Stowey
• Chewton Mendip
• Stanton Drew

Chew Magna Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers.

Chew Magna Somerset Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1531-1812

Chew Magna Somerset Church of England Baptisms 1813-1914

Bishop Sutton 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.

Chew Magna Somerset Marriage Registers Bonds and Allegations 1754-1914

Bishop Sutton 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.

Chew Magna Somerset Church of England Burials 1813-1914

Bishop Sutton Somerset Church of England Burials 1813-1914

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHEW-MAGNA, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Clutton district, Somerset. The village stands on an affluent of the river Avon, 3 miles W by S of Pensford, and 5 SE of Bourton r. station; has a post-office under Bristol; is a seat of petty sessions; and was once a borough and a market-town. The parish includes the tythings of Bishop-Sutton, North Elm, Stone, Knowle and Knighton-Sutton; and both it and the village are sometimes called Bishops-Chew.

The manor belongs to the Bishop of Bath and Wells. Chew Court is a ruined mansion of the middle ages. A Druidical circle is at Stanton-Drew; and a Roman camp, at Bow-Ditch. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Holy Trinity, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £634. Patron, alternately the Bishop and others. The church is decorated English; and was restored in 1860. The p. curacy of Dundry is a separate benefice. There is a chapel of ease at Bishops-Sutton. There are also chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, an endowed school, and charities £36.

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

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

• County: Somerset
• Civil Registration District: Clutton
• 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: Clutton
• Hundred: Chew
• Province: Canterbury