West Dowlish Somerset Family History Guide
West Dowlish is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.
Other places in the parish include:
Alternative names:
Parish church: St John the Baptist Church. According to the Victoria County History of Somerset the church had been demolished by 1575 and the rectory was annexed to Dowlish Wake in 1857.
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: None
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
DOWLISH (West), a parish in Chard district, Somerset; 1¼ mile SE by E of Ilminster. Acres and real property, returned with Dowlish-Wake. Pop., 52. Houses, 9. There is no church.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
DOWLISH, WEST (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Chard, hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, W. division of Somerset, 1 mile (S. E. by S.) from Ilminster; containing 31 inhabitants. The living is valued in the king’s books at £3. 7. 6.: the church has been demolished, and the inhabitants attend the church of Dowlish-Wake.
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: Chard
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Taunton
- Diocese: Bath and Wells
- Rural Deanery: Crewkerne
- Poor Law Union: Chard
- Hundred: Abdick and Bulstone
- Province: Canterbury