Runnington Somerset Family History Guide

Runnington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset. 

Alternative names: Rowington

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1585
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RUNNINGTON, a parish in Wellington district, Somerset; on the river Tone, 1 mile WNW of Wellington r. station. Post-town, Wellington, Somerset. Acres, 323. Real property, £792. Pop., 100. Houses, 20. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £103. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old. Charities, £8.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

RUNNINGTON, a parish, in the union of Wellington, hundred of Milverton, W. division of Somerset, 2 miles (W. N. W.) from Wellington; containing 107 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the river Tone, and the Taunton and Tiverton canal passes near its boundary. It comprises 323 acres, and the substratum contains good limestone, which is quarried for burning into lime. A few persons are employed in the woollen manufacture. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £5. 1. 5½., and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes have been commuted for £84, and the glebe comprises 16 acres. The church is ancient.

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: Taunton
  • Poor Law Union: Wellington
  • Hundred: Milverton
  • Province: Canterbury