Somerset

Somerset Towns & Parishes

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Corfe

"CORFE, a parish in the hundred of Taunton, in the county of Somerset, 4 miles from Taunton, its post town. The village is situated under Blackdown Hill. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Bath and Wells, value £66, in the patronage of Lady Cooper, of Barton House. The church is a atone edifice in the Anglo-Norman style. It received in 1843, and again in 1858, various additions and repairs. Here is a National school for both sexes, The lord of the manor is Robert Mattock, Esq." From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson © 2003

Archives and Libraries

• Postcards of Corfe

• Details of Somerset Record Office holdings relating to this parish.

Church Records

• Transcriptions from the registers of Corfe, St Nicholas provided by Roy Parkhouse
  • Baptisms 1682-1894
  • Marriage Banns 1779-1824
  • Marriage Banns 1913-1936
  • Marriages 1776-1878
  • Burials 1678-1899
  • Marriages 1776-1878

Maps

• The Ordnance Survey 1:10560 County Series 2nd edition (c.1900) map of the area provided by Somerset Record Office.

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