This description of the parish of Buckland Newton and it’s tythings is taken from ‘A Topographical Dictionary of England’, published by Samuel Lewis in 1831.
Buckland Newton, Dorset (1831)
July 2, 2008 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Brockhampton, Buckland Newton, Duntish, Knowle, Minterne Parva, Plush
Memories of Writhlington, Somerset
February 14, 2008 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy, Location)
Tags: Foxcote, Goldfinch, Knowle, Mattick, Paul, Wellow, Writhlington
Anglican clergyman, publisher and convert to Roman Catholicism, Charles Kegan Paul (1828-1902) was born on March 8, 1828, at White Lackington, near Ilminster, Somerset the son of Charles Paul, curate of the parish and his wife Frances Kegan Horne. In 1899 he published his autobiography and it is from this that these memories of his early life in Writhlington are derived.
