Raddington Somerset Family History Guide

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Raddington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset. 

Parish church: St. Michael

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1814
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1603

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Adjacent Parishes

Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RADDINGTON, a parish in Wellington district, Somerset; adjacent to Devon, 4¼ miles W by S of Wiveliscombe, and 7½ WNW of Wellington r. station. Post-town, Wiveliscombe, under Wellington, Somerset. Acres, 1,505. Real property, £1,315. Pop., 121. Houses, 20. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £180. Patron, J. Hayne, Esq. The church is early English, and was restored in 1845 and 1852.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

RADDINGTON (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Wellington, hundred of Williton and Freemanners, W. division of Somerset, 4¾ miles (W. S. W.) from Wiveliscombe; containing 126 inhabitants. It comprises 1345 acres, of which 155 are common or waste land. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £8. 7. 8½.; net income, £191; patron, the Rev. E. Otto Trevelyan.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

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