Somerset

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Kittisford

"KITTISFORD, a parish in the hundred of Milverton, county Somerset, 12 miles from Taunton, and 6 N.W. of Wellington, its post town and railway station. The village, which is small, is situated on the Western canal and the river Tone. The soil is clayey, and subsoil red chilly. Building stone is quarried. At a farm called Cothay is supposed to have been anciently a small monastery. The living is a rectory's in the diocese of Bath and Wells, value £230. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is an ancient structure with a tower containing three bells. A Sunday-school is held in the rectory-house. Robert C. T. Pearce, Esq., is lord of the manor." From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson © 2003

Archives and Libraries

• Details of Somerset Heritage Centre holdings relating to this parish.

Church Records

• David Cheek has transcribed some records from Kittisford Parish Registers (1694-1836).

Maps

• The Ordnance Survey 1:10560 County Series 1st edition (c.1884-1887) map of the area provided by Somerset Heritage Centre.

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

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