South Brewham with North Brewham Somerset Family History Guide
South Brewham with North Brewham is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Somerset, created in 1784 from a chapelry in Bruton Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: North Brewham.
Alternative names: North and South Brewham, South Brewham, South Bruham
Parish church: St. John the Baptist
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1659
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Charlton Musgrove
- Kilmington
- Upton Noble
- Milton Clevedon
- Shepton Montague
- Eastrip
- Batcombe
- Witham Friary
- Bruton
- Stourton
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BREWHAM (South), a parish in Wincanton district, Somerset: on the Wilts and Somerset railway; 2½ miles NE by N of Bruton. It has a post-office under Bath. Acres, 2,671. Real property, with North Brewham and Eastrip, £6,394. Pop., 519. Houses, 121. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage, with North Brewham, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £102. Patron, Sir H. Hoare, Bart. The church is good; and there are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BREWHAM (North), a parish in Wincanton district, Somerset; adjacent to the Wilts and Somerset railway, 3 miles NE of Bruton. Post town, South Brewham, under Bath. Acres, 2,026. Real property, returned with South Brewham. Pop., 321. Houses, 73. The living is annexed to South Brewham; and the church is used as a barn.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BREWHAM, NORTH and SOUTH (St. John the Baptist), in the union of Wincanton, hundred of Bruton, E. division of Somerset; containing 905 inhabitants, of whom 392 are in North Brewham, 3½ miles (E. N. E.) from Bruton. This district takes its name from the river Brew, and is divided into two distinct parishes having one church: North Brewham comprises 2023a. 2r. 10p., of which about 100 acres are woodland and 139 common or waste; and South Brewham, 2661a. 2r. 30p., of which 1845 acres are pasture, 379 arable, and 437 wood. The soil is mostly clay, stony in some places, and in some parts tolerably good mould; the surface is much diversified with hill and dale, and thickly wooded. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £102; patron and impropriator, Sir H. R. Hoare, Bart.: the tithes of North Brewham have been commuted for £169, and those of South Brewham for £180. The church is a neat edifice, lately repaired at a great expense; in the churchyard are the shaft of an old cross, and two fine yew-trees. A chapel formerly stood at North Brewham, the remains of which have been converted into a barn.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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South Brewham
North Brewham
Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
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