West Hatch, Somerset Family History Guide

West Hatch is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Somerset, created in 1850 from a chapelry in North Curry Ancient Parish.

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Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1604
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

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West Hatch Parish Registers

West Hatch Parish Registers Marriages 1604 to 1812 Somerset Parish Registers Marriages Volume 3 Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore and D. M. Ross. Publisher: Phillimore & Co. Date of publication: 1901. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HATCH (West), a village and a parish in Taunton district, Somerset. The village stands near the Hatch station of the Chard and Taunton railway, 4¼ miles SE of Taunton. The parish comprises 1,681 acres. Post town, Hatch-Beauchamp, under Taunton. Rated property, £2, 008. Pop., 432. Houses, 101. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Wells. The limits include part of Sedgemoor. The living is a vicarage, formerly annexed to the vicarage of North Curry, but made a separate charge in 1856, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £65. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Wells. The church is later English; was restored and enlarged in 1861; and consists of aisles, chancel, and porcli, with tower and spire. There is 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

HATCH, WEST, a parish, in the union of Taunton, hundred of North Curry, W. division of Somerset, 4¾ miles (S. E. by E.) from Taunton; containing 465 inhabitants. The living is annexed to the vicarage of North Curry. A rent-charge of £174. 18. is paid to the Dean and Chapter of Wells, as appropriators, and the vicarial tithes have been commuted for £42; the appropriate glebe contains 2r. 35p., and the vicarial upwards of 5 acres.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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Administration

County: Somerset
Civil Registration District: Taunton
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Dean and Chapter of Wells
Diocese: Bath and Wells
Rural Deanery: Taunton
Poor Law Union: Taunton
Hundred: North Curry
Province: Canterbury