Ash Priors, Somerset Family History Guide

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Ash Priors is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.

Parish church: Holy Trinity

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1700
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1595

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Ash Priors Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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Ash Priors Somerset Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1531-1812

Ash Priors Somerset Church of England Baptisms 1813-1914

Marriage and Banns Records

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Ash Priors Somerset Marriage Registers Bonds and Allegations 1754-1914

Death and Burial Records

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Ash Priors Somerset Church of England Burials 1813-1914

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ASH-PRIORS, a parish in Taunton district, Somerset; near Bishops-Lydeard r. station, and 6 miles NW of Taunton. Post Town, Bishops-Lydeard under Taunton. Acres, 635. Real property, £1,057. Pop., 207. Houses, 45. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £70. Patron, Sir T. B. Lethbridge, Bart. The church is good.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Ash-Priors, 3 m. N.E. Milverton. P. 226.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ASH-PRIORS (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Taunton, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury and of the county of Somerset, 6 miles (N. W. by W.) from Taunton; comprising by computation 600 acres, and containing 226 inhabitants.

The name of this place is a corruption of Esse Prioris, “the property of the prior,” which related to a house here, anciently used for a country residence by the prior of Taunton. The church and principal parts of the village are beautifully situated on rising ground, commanding a fine view of Taunton-Dean. There are some quarries of red sandstone, which is of good quality for building, and is also burnt for manure.

The living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of Sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge, Bart., with a net income of £70: the tithes have been commuted for £110. The church, a neat structure in the later English style, has been enlarged by the addition of a new aisle, and beautified, at the expense of Sir T. B. Lethbridge. Priory House, of which a small portion yet remains, was the residence of the celebrated Admiral Blake.

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 Archdeaconry of Taunton
  • Diocese: Bath and Wells
  • Rural Deanery: Taunton
  • Poor Law Union: Taunton
  • Hundred: West Kingsbury
  • Province: Canterbury