Langport, Somerset Family History Guide
Langport is a chapelry of Huish Episcopi Ancient Parish in Somerset.
Alternative names: Langport Eastover
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1619
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605
Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Independent/Congregational, and Particular Baptist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LANGPORT-EASTOVER, a parish in Langport district, Somerset; containing part of Langport town. Acres, 171. Real property, £5,704; of which £549 are in canals. Pop., 1,133. Houses, 211. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Huish-Episcopi, in the diocese of Bath and Wells.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LANGPORT, a town, a sub-district, and a district, in Somerset. The town stands on the river Parret, and on the Yeovil branch of the Bristol and Exeter railway, 14 miles E by N of Taunton. It was known at Domesday as Lanporth; was then a royal borough; sent members to parliament in the time of Edward I.; was occupied, for some time in 1644, by the royalists; and, under a charter of James I., is governed by a portreeve, two bailiffs, and other officers. It was anciently much larger than now; and it is said to have been engirt with moated fortifications; but it now shows no trace of having been fortified. It stands partly in Langport-Eastover parish, partly in Huish-Episcopi parish; and is divided into two parts, called Langport-Eastover and Langport-Westover. It is situated mostly on a small ascent, contiguous to a rich plain extending northward, westward, and southward; and it possesses two fine commons and a moor. It consists chiefly of two streets; and the main one is very narrow, but leads up to an extensive and beautiful view. The town has a post-office under Taunton, a railway station with telegraph, a banking office, a good inn, a stone bridge over the Parret, a town-hall and marketplace, a subscription reading-room, a museum, two churches, Independent and Baptist chapels, a free grammar school, and charities £81; is a seat of petty sessions, a seat of county courts, and a polling-place; and publishes a weekly newspaper. The museum is in an old building called the Hanging Chapel, over an archway; so situated there as to appear overhanging or uplifted. The two churches are those of Huish-Episcopi and Langport-Eastover; the former later English, comprising nave, aisles, transept, and chancel, with a very fine tower: the latter Tudor, comprising nave, aisles, transept, chancel, and two chapels, with a tower, and having an ancient stained-glass E window. The grammar school was founded, in 1675, by Thomas Gillett; and has an endowed income of £73 a-year. A lepers’ hospital was founded at the town in 1312; and an intention was, for a time, entertained by Henry I. of founding here the abbey which he afterwards founded at Reading. A weekly market is held on Tuesday; cattle markets are held on the second Tuesday of every month; and large markets are held on the second Tuesday of March and December. Considerable transit traffic is carried on, both by the railway and by the river; and there is an iron foundry.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
Langport Baptisms, Burials and Marriages 1753 to 1837
Sarah Hawkins Genealogy Site – Langport Somerset
Somerset Archives & Family History Groups
Weston-super-Mare & District FHS
Somerset Online Parish Clerk Project
Newspaper Archives
Bath Chronicle Newspaper 1770-1800
Forums
Somerset
Roy Parkhouse’s indexed parish register transcriptions
Somerset Pages Parish Register Transcripts
West Somerset Parish Register Transcriptions
Prisoners for Trial at Assizes 1810-1905
Prisoners in Ilchester Gaol 1821-44
Somerset Quarter Sessions 1625-1639
Visitations of Somerset 1531 & 1573
Somerset Historical Directories
Somerset Workhouse Admissions and Discharges
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.1
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.2
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.3
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.4
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.5
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.6
Somerset Medieval Wills 1501-1530
Records for England
Births and Baptism Records
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Great Britain, Births and Baptisms, 1571-1977
England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
Marriage Records
England Marriages, 1538–1973
Great Britain Marriages, 1797-1988
England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
Death Records
England Death Records, 1998-2015
England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
Great Britain Deaths and Burials, 1778-1988
England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957
England and Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1640-1660
Non-Conformist Records
England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977
Census
England and Wales Census, 1841
England and Wales Census, 1851
England and Wales Census, 1861
England and Wales Census, 1871
England and Wales Census, 1881
England and Wales Census, 1891
England and Wales Census, 1901
England and Wales Census, 1911
Occupations
United Kingdom, Merchant Navy Seamen Records, 1835-1941
War and Conflict
Great Britain, War Office Registers, 1772-1935
United Kingdom, Chelsea Pensioners’ Service Records, 1760-1913
United Kingdom, Royal Hospital Chelsea: Discharge Documents of Pensioners 1760-1887 (WO 122)
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
United Kingdom, Militia Service Records, 1806-1915
United Kingdom, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920
United Kingdom, World War I Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Records, 1917-1920
Newspaper Archives
British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices
British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries
Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Somerset
- Civil Registration District: Langport
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Wells
- Diocese: Bath and Wells
- Rural Deanery: Ilchester
- Poor Law Union: Langport
- Hundred: Pitney
- Province: Canterbury