Timberscombe Somerset Family History Guide

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Timberscombe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Michael

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1656
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TIMBERSCOMBE, a parish, with a village, in Williton district, Somerset; 7¾ miles W by S of Watchet r. station. It has a post-office under Taunton. Acres, 1,902. Real property, £2,063 Pop., 434. Houses, 91. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £200. Patron, the Bishop of B. and W. The church is of the 15th century. There are an endowed school with £187 a year, and charities £10.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

TIMBERSCOMBE (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Williton, hundred of Carhampton, W. division of Somerset, 2½ miles (W. S. W.) from Dunster; containing 476 inhabitants. The parish includes a small fertile valley surrounded by high hills, and is traversed by the road from Dunster to Dulverton; it comprises by admeasurement 1432 acres. The soil is in some parts gravelly, in others stony; and good stone is quarried for building. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the patronage of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, valued in the king’s books at £6. 10.; net income, £170. There is a parsonage-house; the glebe consists of about 3½ acres, and the impropriator possesses 43 acres. The church has an embattled tower surmounted by a low spire, which are much more ancient than the body of the edifice; the nave is separated from the chancel by a handsome screen, in excellent preservation. Richard Ellsworth, in 1714, bequeathed £200 towards building a school-house, and an annuity of £20 for clothing and educating children; it was not erected till 1824, and the endowment having accumulated to £50 per annum, about 60 children are instructed and clothed. Here are two strong chalybeate springs.

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: Williton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Timberscombe
  • Diocese: Bath and Wells
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Dunster
  • Poor Law Union: Williton
  • Hundred: Carhampton
  • Province: Canterbury