A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1992.
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A P Baggs. M C Siraut, 'St. Michaelchurch: Local government', A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes), (London, 1992), pp. 316-317. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol6/pp316-317 [accessed 16 June 2024].
A P Baggs. M C Siraut. "St. Michaelchurch: Local government", in A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes), (London, 1992) 316-317. British History Online, accessed June 16, 2024, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol6/pp316-317.
Baggs, A P. Siraut, M C. "St. Michaelchurch: Local government", A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes), (London, 1992). 316-317. British History Online. Web. 16 June 2024, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol6/pp316-317.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Michaelchurch was the name of a limit in Durston tithing in North Petherton hundred which also included a large part of North Petherton parish. (fn. 1) For the manor one court roll survives for 1632 when courts were held twice a year; courts were still held in the 1760s and 1770s. (fn. 2) During the late 16th and early 17th century there were two churchwardens (fn. 3) and in the 18th century there were a churchwarden and a sidesman who may have been the retiring warden. (fn. 4) In 1654 it was proposed that St. Michaelchurch should be united with North Petherton under the same register. (fn. 5) There appears to have been a vestry in the 19th century. (fn. 6) The parish formed part of the Bridgwater poor-law union in 1836 and the Bridgwater rural district in 1894. As part of the civil parish of North Petherton it formed part of Sedgemoor district in 1974. (fn. 7)