Search for a place
Search for a place
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described West Bagborough like this:
BAGBOROUGH (West), a parish in Taunton district, Somerset; in a pleasant hilly tract, on the Taunton and Watchet railway, between Bishops-Lydeard and Crowcombe-Heathfield stations, 8 miles NW of Taunton. It as a post office, of the name of Bagborough, under Taunton; and a fair on 23 May. Acres, 1,972. Real property, £3,017. Pop., 495. Houses, 97. The property is divided among a few. Bagborough House is the seat of the Popham family. The living is a rectory in he diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £550.* Patron, dam Clarke, Esq. The church is good.
West Bagborough is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about West Bagborough itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of West Bagborough in Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12362
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
Click here for more detailed advice on finding places within A Vision of Britain through Time, and maybe some references to other places called "West Bagborough".
