Description
Timsbury, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, 2 1/2 miles NNW of Radstock station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, and 3 SSE of Clutton station on the North Somerset railway. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bath. Acreage, 1161; population, 1390. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Coal is largely worked. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £345 with residence. Patron, Balliol College, Oxford. The church was wholly rebuilt in 1825, with chancel and transepts added in 1852. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Free Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
