Sock Dennis, Somerset Family History Guide

Sock Dennis is an extra-parochial place.

Alternative names: Sock Dennis and Sock Wyndham, Stock-Dennis

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Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SOCK-DENNIS, a parish in Yeovil district, Somerset; 1 mile SW of Ilchester, and 2½ E by N of Martock r. station. Post town, Ilchester, under Taunton. Acres, 880. Pop., 26. Houses, 5. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £188. Patron, the Rev. J. H. Wyndham.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

STOCK-DENNIS, with Stock-Wyndham, an extraparochial district, in the hundred of Tintinhull, union of Yeovil, W. division of Somerset; containing 11 inhabitants. This was formerly a parish, but the church having been destroyed, and the place almost depopulated, it lost its parochial rights. It consists of two large farms adjoining the parish of Ilchester. The living was a rectory, valued in 1294 at £20; it belongs to the Rev. J. H. Wyndham, and yields a net income of £188 per annum.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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Administration

  • County: Somerset
  • Civil Registration District: Yeovil
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  • Diocese: Not Applicable
  • Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
  • Poor Law Union: Yeovil
  • Hundred: Tintinhull
  • Province: Canterbury