Steep Holme Island Somerset Family History Guide

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Steep Holme Island is an extra-parochial place.

Alternative names: Steep Holm, Steep Holmes Island

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Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

STEEP-HOLMES ISLAND, in the parish of Uphill, union of Axbridge, hundred of Winterstoke, E. division of Somerset, 2 leagues (W. by N.) from Uphill. The island is a vast rock, about a mile and a half in circumference, rising perpeudicularly out of the Bristol Channel to the height of 400 feet above the level of the sea, and inaccessible at all points except two. A few rabbits burrow here, and great numbers of sea-fowl build their nests in the recesses of the overhanging cliffs. It is supposed that the island had anciently a priory, founded about the reign of Edward II., by Maurice, Lord Berkeley.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

  • County: Somerset
  • Civil Registration District: Axbridge
  • Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
  • Diocese: Not Applicable
  • Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
  • Poor Law Union: Axbridge
  • Hundred: Bempstone
  • Province: Canterbury