West Buckland Somerset Family History Guide

West Buckland is a chapelry of Wellington Ancient Parish in Somerset.

Other places in the parish include:

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BUCKLAND (West), a parish in Wellington district, Somerset; under Blackdown hill, near the Bristol and Exeter railway, 2¼ miles E of Wellington. Post town, Wellington, Somerset. Acres, 3,671. Real property, £6,226. Pop., 901. Houses, 200. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Wellington, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. The church, excepting the tower, was rebuilt in 1863.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BUCKLAND, WEST (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, locally in that of Taunton and TauntonDean, W. division of Somerset, 2¾ miles (E.) from Wellington; containing 887 inhabitants. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Wellington: the church is partly in the Norman style, with later additions. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Somerset, West Buckland – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for West Buckland, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Somerset, West Buckland – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for West Buckland, 1607-1629
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Buckland (Somersetshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for West Buckland, 1607-1841
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Buckland (Somersetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts and vestry minutes, 1672-1890
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Buckland (Somersetshire)

England, Somerset, West Buckland, parish registers, 1538-1967
Author: Somerset Record Office

Marriages at West Buckland, 1538-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Buckland (Somersetshire)

Parish registers for West Buckland, 1538-1967
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Buckland (Somersetshire)

England, Somerset, West Buckland – History ( 1 )
West Buckland : through a glass darkly
Author: Skeggs, James

England, Somerset, West Buckland – Land and property ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for West Buckland, 1766-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Somersetshire)

England, Somerset, West Buckland – Manors – Court records ( 1 )
Court records for the manor of West Buckland, 1790-1852
Author: Manor of West Buckland. Court (Somerset)

England, Somerset, West Buckland – Occupations ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1677-1864
Author: West Buckland (Somerset)

England, Somerset, West Buckland – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1677-1864
Author: West Buckland (Somerset)

England, Somerset, West Buckland – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for West Buckland, 1766-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Somersetshire)

Poor law records, 1677-1864
Author: West Buckland (Somerset)

Maps

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

Administration

  • County: Somerset
  • Civil Registration District: Wellington (Somerset)
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Taunton
  • Diocese: Bath and Wells
  • Rural Deanery: Taunton
  • Poor Law Union: Wellington
  • Hundred: West Kingsbury
  • Province: Canterbury