About this site

What it is and is not

It is not the parish's official site and does not speak for the Parochial Church Council, the Blackdown Benefice or the Diocese of Bath and Wells. For services, parish business and giving, use the parish's own channels: A Church Near You and blackdown.org.uk. This site handles no money.

It tries to give the church, the village and the emigrant families equal weight, and to be useful to someone standing in the churchyard, someone who has lived here all their life, and someone in Connecticut who has just found the name Pitminster in a family Bible.

Corrections

Everything on these pages is written from the published record, listed below, and from a distance. Where the record is a tradition rather than a document, the text says so. If you know better, write to the editors; corrections are made and credited.

Sources

• Historic England, National Heritage List for England: Church of St Andrew and St Mary, Pitminster, list entry 1344587 (Grade I); Poundisford Park, 1060307; Church of St Michael, Angersleigh, 1177574; North family monument in the churchyard, 1060302.
• A Church Near You (Church of England): St Mary & St Andrew, Pitminster, church 11367, and its church-history page.
• A. W. Vivian-Neal and Arthur Westall, The Church of St Mary and St Andrew, Pitminster (Somerset County Herald, 1950).
• Robin Bush, Somerset: The Complete Guide (Dovecote Press, 1994), pp. 168–169.
• The Pitminster and Corfe Pageant, 1976: programme and script summary in The Redress of the Past: Historical Pageants in Britain, pageant 1164.
• Natural England, citation for Prior's Park and Adcombe Wood SSSI.
• Office for National Statistics, 2011 census, Pitminster parish and Blackdown ward.
• John Harvey Treat, The Treat Family: A Genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat for Fifteen Generations, and Four Hundred and Fifty Years in England and America (Salem, 1893).
• The Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662, Connecticut State Library.
• Robert Bartlett Dole papers, Dole Archive and Special Collections, University of Kansas (speech honouring William W. Treat).
• Wikipedia articles on the church, the village, Richard Treat and Robert Treat, used as finding aids and checked against the sources above.
• Photographers' notes on Geograph Britain and Ireland for the mill at the Queen's Arms and the footpaths.

Photographs and artwork

The church at dusk, the nave roof, the Treat brass and the 2026 pageant programme were photographed by the site's editors in June 2026 and may be reused freely with a credit to Friends of Pitminster. The other photographs are from Geograph Britain and Ireland and are used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence. Each is credited where it appears:

• Church of St Andrew & St Mary, Pitminster, and the monument to John Coles: Mike Searle (3157616, 3157709).
• Pitminster church; Approaching Pitminster; Countryside near Sellick's Green: Derek Harper (126380, 1610088, 1382182).
• Blagdon Hill from the south-west; View east from the Angersleigh road; Poundisford Lodge: Nick Chipchase (1238519, 3496668, 1207938).
• The Queen's Arms; the Blagdon Inn: Martin Bodman (46480, 195110).
• The Lamb and Flag, Blagdon Hill: Roger Cornfoot (4778483).
• From Adcombe Hill: Lewis Clarke (7631088).

The bear rampant in the Treat arms is adapted from an illustration by Rinaldum on Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, recoloured. The typefaces are Libre Caslon Text and Libre Caslon Display, under the SIL Open Font License; Caslon was the type of eighteenth-century England and of the printed Declaration of Independence, which seemed right for a page about both.

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