Buckland St Mary, Somerset Family History Guide
Buckland St Mary is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.
Other places in the parish include: Hare.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1597
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Independent/Congregational.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Drayton
- Isle Abbots
- Curry Rivel
- Bickenhall
- Barrington
- Land Common to North Curry and Stoke St Gregory
- Otterford
- Staple Fitzpaine
- Broadway
- Combe St Nicholas
- Hatch Beauchamp
- Beer Crocombe
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BUCKLAND-ST.-MARY, a village and a parish in Chard district, Somerset. The village stands 1½ mile from the verge of the county, 4½ miles NW of Chard r. station, and 6 W by S of Ilminster; and it has a post-office under Chard and a fair on the Tuesday and Wednesday after 20 Sept. The parish comprises 3,494 acres. Real property, £3,766. Pop., 715. Houses, 151. The property is much subdivided. Traces of a Roman fort bear the name of Neroche Castle; and relics of conflicts between the Saxons and the Danes have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £343. Patron, F. L. Popham, Esq. The church was rebuilt in the nine years prior to 1864; cost about £20,000, all defrayed by the rector, the Rev. J. E. Lance; is in the decorated English style; consists of nave with aisles, chancel with side chapels, a south porch, and a massive western tower; and has ornature of coloured marbles, polychromy, statuary, and painted windows. Remains of an ancient stone cross are in the churchyard. There is a Baptist chapel.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
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; Martock; South Petherton
- Province: Canterbury