Coleford, Somerset Family History Guide

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Coleford is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Somerset, created in 1834 from a chapelry in Kilmersdon Ancient Parish.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1831
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1831

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Coleford Parish Registers

Coleford Church of England Confirmations, 1843-1913

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COLEFORD, a small town and a chapelry in Kilmersdon parish, Somerset. The town stands near three large new collieries, 6 miles NW of Frome r. station; is a rising place; has a post-office under Bath, a church, and two Methodist chapels; and publishes a weekly newspaper. The chapelry was constituted in 1843. Pop., 1,387. Houses, 315. The living is a p. curacy in the dio. of Bath And Wells. Value, £120. Patron, the Vicar of Kilmersdon.

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

Maps

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

Administration

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