Moorlinch, Somerset Family History Guide

Moorlinch is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset. Catcott, Stawell, and Sutton Mallet are chapelries of Moorlinch.

Alternative names: Moorlinch with Stawell and Sutton Mallet

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1653
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MOORLINCH, a village, a township, and a parish in Bridgewater district, Somerset. The village stands 3¾ miles ESE of Shapwick r. station, and 6¼ E of Bridgewater; and has a fair on 20 Aug. The township comprises 1,122 acres. Real property, £2,454. Pop. in 1851, 378; in 1861, 334. Houses, 81. The parish contains also the chapelries of Catcott, Edington, Sutton-Mallett, Stawell, and Chilton-upon-Polden; and its Post town is Ashcott, under Bath. Acres, 9,252. Real property, £19,368. Pop. in 1851, 2,439; in 1861, 2,329. Houses, 534. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to B. Greenhill, Esq. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelries of Stawell and Sutton-Mallett, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £500. Patron, the Rev. R. J. Luscombe. The church is partly early English; and consist of nave and chancel, with a tower. The p. curacies of Catcott, Burtle, and Edington-with-Chilton-upon-Polden, are separate benefices. There are independent chapels in Moorlinch and Chilton-upon-Polden, a Wesleyan chapel in Catcott, a Primitive Methodist chapel in Burtle, and national schools in Moorlinch and Catcott. The charities amount to £152.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

MOORLINCH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Bridgwater, hundred of Whitley, W. division of the county of Somerset, 7 miles (E.) from Bridgwater; containing 2281 inhabitants, of whom 331 are in the hamlet. This parish, which is situated on the Bath and Exeter road, comprises by measurement 1083 acres; the substratum consists of a blue and white lias, of excellent quality for building, and well adapted for mantel-pieces and other ornamental uses. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £10; net income, £440; patron and incumbent, the Rev. R. J. Luscombe; impropriators, Mr. Gould, Mr. Sherston, and the Rev. Mr. Baker. The church is a handsome structure, in the later English style. At Stawell and Sutton-Mallet are chapels of ease, of similar character; and at Burtle, Catcott, and Chilton-on-Poldon with Edington, are separate incumbencies: the living of Burtle is in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, with an income of £50. There are places of worship for Independents. A cell to the abbey of Glastonbury was maintained here.

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