Backwell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.
Other places in the parish include: West Town, Mooreside, Farley, Downside, and Church Town.
Alternative names: Bachwell
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
Backwell
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BACKWELL, or Bachwell, a parish in Bedminster district, Somerset; 1 mile SE of Nailsea r. station, and 7 WSW of Bristol. It includes the hamlets of Church Town, Downside, Farley, Mooreside, and West-Town; and its Post town is Nailsea. Acres, 2,902. Real property, £6,223. Pop., 926. Houses, 183. The property is subdivided. Coal is extensively mined; and building-stone is quarried. The living is a vicarage, and a sinecure rectory, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value of the vicarage, £144; of the rectory, £253. Patron of the vicarage, Mrs. Uniacke; of the rectory, the Marquis of Bath. The church is good, and has a very fine tower; and there are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £46.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Downside
Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845
Downside, a hamlet, in the parish of Backwell, union of Bedminster, hundred of Hartcliffe with Bedminster, E. division of Somerset; containing 178 inhabitants.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.
Farley
Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845
Farley, a hamlet, in the parish of Backwell, union of Bedminster, hundred of Hartcliffe with Bedminster, E. division of Somerset; containing 437 inhabitants.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.
Parish Records
Portbury Hundred Church Records
Somerset Archives & Family History Groups
Weston-super-Mare & District FHS
Somerset Online Parish Clerk Project
Newspaper Archives
Bath Chronicle Newspaper 1770-1800
Forums
Somerset
Roy Parkhouse’s indexed parish register transcriptions
Somerset Pages Parish Register Transcripts
West Somerset Parish Register Transcriptions
Prisoners for Trial at Assizes 1810-1905
Prisoners in Ilchester Gaol 1821-44
Somerset Quarter Sessions 1625-1639
Visitations of Somerset 1531 & 1573
Somerset Historical Directories
Somerset Workhouse Admissions and Discharges
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.1
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.2
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.3
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.4
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.5
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills Vol.6
Somerset Medieval Wills 1501-1530
Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Somerset
- Civil Registration District: Bedminster
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Bath and Wells (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Bath and Wells
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Redcliffe and Bedminster, Post-1846 – Chew
- Poor Law Union: Bedminster
- Hundred: Hartcliffe with Bedminster
- Province: Canterbury