Milborne Port Somerset Family History Guide
Milborne Port is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.
Other places in the parish include: Milborne Wick and Kingsbury Regis.
Alternative names: Milbourne Port
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Poyntington
- Charlton Horethorne
- Stowell
- Goathill
- Oborne, Dorset
- Purse Caundle, Dorset
- Henstridge
- Sherborne, Dorset
- Corton Denham
Milborne Port Parish Records
An index of parish records for people from Milborne Port Somerset. The index includes information from Allegations For Marriage Licences In Hampshire granted by the Bishop of Winchester.
Marriage Allegations
The records below have been extracted from the book Allegations For Marriage Licences In Hampshire granted by the Bishop of Winchester.
King, Thomas, of Milbourne-Port, co. Somerset, weaver, 23, h., & Jane Gilbert, of Fordingbridge, 23, sp., 21 Jan., 1763.
CHAMBELEN or Chamberlayn, Thomas, of Milborne-Port, co. Somerset, mariner, & Ann Trimmell, of Ringwood, at Ellingham, 6 Feb., 1721-2.
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MILBORNE-PORT, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Wincanton district, Somerset. The town stands at the foot of a hill, on a small affluent of the river Yeo, ¾ of a mile WNW of the boundary with Dorset, 1 SE of the Salisbury and Yeovil railway, and 2¾ NE by E of Sherborne; took its name from its situation on a mill-stream, and from the Saxon word Port signifying a borough; was a place of some consequence prior to the Norman conquest; is a borough by prescription, having still nine capital bailiffs; sent two members to parliament in the time of Edward III., and from that of Charles I., till the passing of the reform act, but then was disfranchised; was long a market-town, but has ceased to be so; possesses still the pediment and steps of an ancient market-cross; has also a curious old town hall, half a cottage, with a Norman doorway; has likewise a ball-court, erected by Sir William Medlycott for the use of its inhabitants; was occupied, for some time, by a party of Cromwell’s soldiers, who provoked the town’s people to rise against them, and drive them from the town; consists now chiefly of detached houses; and has a post-office under Sherborne, a railway station, a good inn, a church, Independent and Wesleyan chapels, national and British schools, and charities £39. The church is Norman; was recently restored; consists of nave, aisles, transept, and chancel, with a large tower; and contains monuments of the Medlycotts. Fairs are held on 5 June and 28 Oct.; a manufacture of cloth, dowlas, and stockings was formerly considerable; and glove-making, leather-dressing, and shoe-making are now carried on. The parish contains also the tything of Kingsbury-Regis and the hamlet of Milborne-Wick. Acres, 3,277. Real property, £7,368. Pop., 1,814. Houses, 351. Venn House, a red brick mansion of somewhat unique appearance, built by Inigo Jones, is the seat of Sir William Medlycott, Bart. An ancient camp is at Milborne-Wick. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £233. Patron, Sir W. Medlycott, Bart.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Somerset
- Civil Registration District: Wincanton
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Wells
- Diocese: Bath and Wells
- Rural Deanery: Merston
- Poor Law Union: Wincanton
- Hundred: Horethorne
- Province: Canterbury