Chilton Polden, Somerset Family History Guide

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Chilton Polden is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Somerset, created in 1828 from chapelry in Moorlinch Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Burtle.

Alternative names: Chilton super Polden, Chilton upon Polden

Parish registers begin:

Chilton Polden

  • Parish registers: 1710
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605

Burtle

  • Parish registers: 1839
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

Chilton Polden Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers.

Chilton Polden Somerset Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1531-1812

Chilton Polden Somerset Church of England Baptisms 1813-1914

Burtle 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.

Chilton Polden Somerset Marriage Registers Bonds and Allegations 1754-1914

Burtle 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.

Chilton Polden Somerset Church of England Burials 1813-1914

Burtle Somerset Church of England Burials 1813-1914

Parish History

Chilton Polden

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHILTON-UPON-POLDEN, a village and a chapelry in Moorlinch parish, Somerset. The village stands 3½ miles SSW of Edington-Road r. station, and 5 ENE of Bridgewater; and has a post-office, of the name of Chilton, under Bridgewater. The chapelry includes also part of the hamlet of Burtle. Acres, 1,856. Real property, £3, 717. Pop., 511. Houses, 118.

A narrow hill-ridge here, called Cockhill, commands extensive and brilliant views; and is crowned by a museum, called Chilton Priory, containing some curious local antiquities. The living is a p. curacy, united with Edington, in the dio. of Bath and Wells. Value, £120. Patron, the Rev. R. J. Luscombe. There is an Independent chapel.

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

Burtle

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BURTLE, a chapelry in Moorlinch parish, Somerset: 3½ miles SSW of Edington-Road r. station, and 5½ ENE of Bridgewater. Post Town, Chilton, under Bridgewater. Pop., 248. Houses, 47. It was constituted in 1856. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £100. Patron, Miss Field. The church is very good.

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

Burtle Church

In 1838 Miss Ann Ruscombe Field (d. 1864) gave money for a church to be built in the part of Burtle in Edington parish. Its parish was created from Edington and Chilton Polden in 1856, and the living was a single benefice from its foundation until 1903 when it was joined with Catcott. In 1974 it became part of a new benefice of Shapwick with Ashcott.

The patronage of the living descended from Ann Ruscombe Field to Gabriel Stone Poole and from him c. 1875 to his son Arthur Ruscombe Poole. It remained in the Poole family until 1946 when G. S. Poole transferred it to the bishop of Bath and Wells, who after 1974 presented every second turn to the benefice then created. A vicarage house was built in 1894, remained in use until 1974, and was sold in 1976. In 1997 it was occupied by Edington school.

Source ‘Edington’, in A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 8, the Poldens and the Levels, ed. Robert Dunning (London, 2004), pp. 50-63. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol8/pp50-63 [accessed 17 November 2020].

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

Chilton Polden – Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

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

Administration

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