Langridge, Somerset Family History Guide

Langridge is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.

Parish church: St. Mary Magdalene

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1756
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1603

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LANGRIDGE, a parish, with a village, in Bath district, Somerset; adjacent to Gloucestershire, and near Lansdown Hill, 4 miles NNW of Bath r. station. Post-town, Bath. Acres, 655. Real property, £1,029. Pop., 102. Houses, 19. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £111. Patron, G. W. Blathwayt, Esq. The church measures only 50 feet by 18; has a beautiful Anglo-Norman entrance; and was recently in bad condition.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

LANGRIDGE (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, in the union of Bath, hundred of Bath-Forum, E. division of Somerset, 4 miles (N. by W.) from Bath; containing 109 inhabitants. This place is distinguished as the scene of the sanguinary though indecisive battle which occurred on Lansdown Hill, at the extremity of the parish, between the royalist and parliamentarian armies, in 1643, and which is commemorated by a monument, erected on the spot, to Sir Bevill Grenville, who fell in that engagement. The parish comprises 647 acres, of which 32 are common or waste. The soil is rocky, and the surface diversified with hill and dale; the scenery is in parts enriched with wood, and the lower grounds are watered by a rivulet, which bounds the parish. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £5. 19. 4½., and in the gift of William Blathwayt, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £112; the glebe comprises 25 acres. The church is an ancient structure with a square tower, and consists of a nave and chancel, between which is a highly-enriched Norman arch; there is a Norman arch of plainer character in the south porch. In rebuilding the rectory-house a few years since, several coffins and skulls, and a silver-mounted battle-axe, were discovered.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

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