Redlynch Somerset Family History Guide

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Redlynch is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Somerset, created in 1733 from a chapelry in Bruton Ancient Parish.

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: None
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

REDLYNCH, a chapelry in Bruton parish, Somerset; 1¾ mile SE by S of Bruton r. station. Post-town, Bruton, under Bath. Real property, with Discove, £1,571. Pop. of R. alone, 61. Houses, 16. R. Park is the seat of the Earl of Ilchester. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £59. Patron, Sir H. H. Hoare, Bart. A fair is held on 29 June.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

REDLYNCH, a chapelry, in the parish and hundred of Bruton, union of Wincanton, E. division of Somerset, 2 miles (S. E. by S.) from Bruton; containing 69 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £59; patron and impropriator, Sir H. R. Hoare, Bart. The chapel, which is of plain architecture, and dedicated to St. Peter, was originally a chapel of ease to Bruton. Redlynch gives the inferior title of Baron to the Earl of Ilchester.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

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