Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WEDMORE

WEDMORE, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Axbridge district, Somerset. The village stands on a rising-ground, 4 miles NNE of Shapwick r. station, and 4¾ S of Axbridge; was known to the Saxons as Wetmor; is nominally a borough, governed by a portreeve; is also a polling place; and has a post-office‡ under Weston-super-Mare, and two annual fairs. The parish contains five tythings and numerous hamlets. Acres, 9,986. Real property, £23,788. Pop. in 1851, 3,905; in 1861, 3,653. Houses, 804. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged anciently to the Crown, and belongs now to the Barrows. A summer palace of King Alfred stood on Mudgley hill, but has left no vestiges. Much Cheddar cheese is made. A pot of Danish coins was found in the churchyard in 1851. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £360.* Patron, the Bishop of B. and W. The church is ancient, cruciform, and good. The p. curacies of Theale and Blackford are separate benefices. Eleven chapels were anciently in different parts; but remains of only one of them now exist. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, an endowed school, and charities about £60.—The sub-district contains 6 parishes. Acres, 20,044. Pop., 6,265. Houses, 1,367.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wedmore CP/AP       Axbridge RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place names: WEDMORE     |     WETMOR
Place: Wedmore

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