Three Somerset parishes; a thousand-year story. Every lane has a past. In North Curry: ancient manor and hundred, Hugh P. Olivey gathers the lived record of North Curry, Stoke St. Gregory and West Hatch into a richly detailed parish history book, written in the spirit of Victorian antiquarian studies yet still briskly readable today in North Curry Somerset. Names and dates become human again. Part local history monograph, part antiquarian history reference, it threads together somerset parish records, place-names, tenure and boundaries, with close attention to manorial court history and the wider english hundred history that shaped everyday governance. The discussion ranges across the kinds of evidence that ground parish study - registers, deeds, court papers and tradition - and returns to the parish church history that anchored community life. Read straight through, it offers a portrait of shifting landholding and parish administration; dipped into, it answers the small, urgent questions that archives raise. For family history researchers, it doubles as a practical genealogy research guide: a route into surnames, farms, tithes, manors and the paper trail that connects families to land and parish. For collectors, it stands as a careful example of county scholarship at a moment when local memory was being formally recorded. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike, and a lasting companion to anyone drawn to somerset villages england.