Rodden Somerset Family History Guide

Rodden is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Somerset, created in 1802 from a chapelry in Boyton Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1659
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1634

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RODDEN, a parish in Frome district, Somerset; 1½mile E by S of Frome r. station. Post-town, Frome. Acres, 990. Real property, £1,831. Pop., 234. Houses, 50. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £220. Patron, Mrs. E. Edgell. The church is good.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

RODDEN, a parish, in the union and hundred of Frome, E. division of Somerset, 1 mile (E. by S.) from Frome, on the road to Warminster; containing 270 inhabitants. The population are chiefly employed in the manufacture of kerseymere. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £240; patron and incumbent, the Rev. Edward Edgell. The church was built by order of Archbishop Laud, in 1640, at the expense of the parishioners, and was enlarged in 1832, by the late incumbent, the Rev. J. M. Rogers, aided by a grant of £50 from the Incorporated Society.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

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