Batcombe, Somerset Family History Guide

Batcombe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1642
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1597

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

• Wanstrow
• Upton Noble
• South Brewham with North Brewham
• Milton Clevedon
• Evercreech with Chesterblade
• West Cranmore

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BATCOMBE, a parish in Shepton-Mallet district, Somerset; near the East Somerset railway, 3 miles N of Bruton. It has a post-office under Bath. Acres, 3,229. Real property, £4,006. Pop., 713. Houses, 172. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Upton Noble, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, not reported. Patron, the Rev. J. Brown. The church was restored in 1844. There are two Wesleyan chapels.

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

Parish Records

Somerset Archives & Family History Groups

Bath Archives

Somerset Archives

Somerset & Dorset FHS

Weston-super-Mare & District FHS

Somerset Online Parish Clerk Project

Newspaper Archives

Bath Chronicle Newspaper 1770-1800

Forums

RootsChat Somerset

Somerset

Bath BMD

Bath Burial Index

Roy Parkhouse’s indexed parish register transcriptions

Somerset Pages Parish Register Transcripts

West Somerset Parish Register Transcriptions

West Country Genealogy

Prisoners for Trial at Assizes 1810-1905

Prisoners in Ilchester Gaol 1821-44

Somerset Quarter Sessions

Somerset Quarter Sessions 1625-1639

Visitations of Somerset 1531 & 1573

Visitation of Somerset 1623

Somerset Trade Directory 1874

Somerset Historical Directories

GENUKI Somerset

History of Taunton

Somerset Historical Essays

Old Somerset Maps

Somerset Muster Roll 1569

Somerset Roll of Honour

Lost Pubs of Somerset

West Country Clockmakers

Bath in Time

Somerset Surnames 1881

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

Taunton Wills 1537-1799

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

• County: Somerset
• Civil Registration District: Shepton Mallet
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Wells
• Diocese: Bath and Wells
• Rural Deanery: Cary
• Poor Law Union: Shepton Mallet
• Hundred: Whitstone (Somerset)
• Province: Canterbury