Walton Somerset Family History Guide

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Walton is a chapelry of Street Ancient Parish in Somerset.

Other places in the parish include:

Alternative names:

Parish church: Holy Trinity

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1671
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WALTON, a parish, with a village, in Wells district, Somerset; 3¼ miles SW of Glastonbury r. station. It has a post-office under Bath. Acres, 2,502. Real property, £4,259. Pop., 731. Houses, 164. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Bath. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Street. The church is decorated English. 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].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

WALTON (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Wells, hundred of Whitley, W. division of Somerset, 3 miles (S. W. by W.) from Glastonbury; containing 782 inhabitants. It is situated on the road from Bath to Exeter, and comprises 2500 acres, of which 181 are common or waste: blue lias is quarried, chiefly for walls and floors. The living is annexed to the rectory of Street: the tithes have been commuted for £380, and there is a parsonage-house, with about 18½ acres of glebe land. The church was enlarged in 1837, when a new tower was also built: the chancel is said to have been much injured by Cromwell’s soldiers, who used it as a stable; it has been restored, and the windows reopened, and ornamented with stained glass. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Many valuable fossils are found in the quarries.

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: Wells
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Wells
  • Diocese: Bath and Wells
  • Rural Deanery: Glastonbury
  • Poor Law Union: Wells
  • Hundred: Whitley
  • Province: Canterbury