West Camel Somerset Family History Guide
West Camel is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.
Other places in the parish include: Urgashay, Sterthill, and Downhead.
Alternative names:
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1678
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1597
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CAMEL (West), a parish in Yeovil district, Somerset; on the river Yeo, 2 miles NW of Marston r. station, and 4 ENE of Ilchester. It includes the hamlets of Downhead, Sterthill, and Urgashay; and its Post town is Queen-Camel under Taunton. Acres, 1,953. Real property, £3,443. Pop., 338. Houses, 72. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £275. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CAMEL, WEST (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Yeovil, hundred of Somerton, W. division of Somerset, 4 miles (E. N. E.) from Ilchester; containing 344 inhabitants. This parish, which is within a quarter of a mile of the road from London to Exeter, comprises by admeasurement 2034 acres. Stone of good quality for building is extensively quarried. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £13. 8. 9., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Bath and Wells: the tithes have been commuted for £250, and the glebe comprises about 65 acres, with a good house, mostly rebuilt in 1836. The church is a very ancient edifice, and has a pulpit of stone, and a handsome sculptured font. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Near the close of the last century, in a hill about half a mile to the north of the church, were discovered two catacombs, in which were several human bodies, arranged in rows.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Somerset
- Civil Registration District: Yeovil
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Wells
- Diocese: Bath and Wells
- Rural Deanery: Merston
- Poor Law Union: Yeovil
- Hundred: Somerton
- Province: Canterbury