Yatton Somerset Family History Guide

Yatton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset. 

Other places in the parish include: Horsecastle, Hewish, and Claverham. 

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1675
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605

Nonconformists include:  Bible Christian Methodist, Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, Wesleyan Methodist Association, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

• Kingston Seymour
• Kenn
• Clevedon St Andrew
• Congresbury
• Nailsea
• Cleeve

Yatton Parish Registers

Yatton Church of England Confirmations, 1843-1913

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

YATTON, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Bedminster district, Somerset. The village stands near the Bristol and Exeter railway, 4¼ miles S by E of Clevedon; and has a head post-office designated Yatton, Somerset, and a r. station. The parish contains also Cleeve village and Claverham hamlet, and comprises 5,374 acres. Real property, £14,543. Pop. in 1851, 2,061; in 1861, 1,851. Houses, 382. The property is much subdivided.

The manor, with Cleeve Court, belongs to T. Castle, Esq. The tract around Cleeve presents some picturesque and diversified scenery. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £430. Patron, the Bishop of B. and W. The church is cruciform and decorated and later English. The vicarages of Cleeve and Kenn are separate benefices. There are national schools and charities £57. The sub-district contains 8 parishes. Acres, 20,048. Pop., 8,236. Houses, 1,531.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

YATTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Bedminster, hundred of Winterstoke, E. division of Somerset, 12 miles (S. W.) from Bristol; containing, with the hamlets of Claverham, Cleeve, and Hewish, 1978 inhabitants. It comprises 5389a. 2r. 5p. Limestone abounds, and is quarried for building, and for burning into lime. The Bristol and Exeter railway passes through the parish. The living is a vicarage, in the patronage of the Prebendary of Yatton in Wells Cathedral, valued in the king’s books at £30: the tithes have been commuted for £348 payable to the impropriators, and £445. 10. to the vicar; the impropriate glebe comprises 138 acres.

The church is a stately cruciform structure in the decorated and later English styles, with a tower in the centre, formerly surmounted by a spire. The greater portion of it appears to have been rebuilt in the 15th century, by the Wyck family, to one of whom is a monument bearing his effigy, in the north transept. In a sepulchral chapel of the Newton family, built by Dame Isabel, widow of Sir John Newton, is a handsome alabaster monument to Sir Richard Caradoc Newton, lord chief justice of the common pleas in the reign of Henry VI., and another to his son Sir John.

A district church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was erected at Cleeve, and consecrated in June, 1840; it is a handsome structure in the Norman style, and contains 300 sittings: the living is in the gift of the Vicar of Yatton. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends and Wesleyans. On Cadbury Hill, in the vicinity, are vestiges of an ancient fortification. In 1782, thirteen human bodies, some of them fresh and of unusual size, and a stone coffin, were found in a limestone-quarry, about two feet below the surface.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

• County: Somerset
• Civil Registration District: Bedminster
• Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Yatton with Kenn
• Diocese: Bath and Wells
• Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Redcliffe and Bedminster, Post-1846 – Chew
• Poor Law Union: Bedminster
• Hundred: Winterstoke
• Province: Canterbury