Wells St Cuthbert In, sometimes St Cuthbert In, is a former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

covering the larger part of the small city of Wells, now in the parish of Wells, in

Somerset Somerset ( , ), Archaism, archaically Somersetshire ( , , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel, Gloucestershire, and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east ...

, England. The parish was named for the

Church of St Cuthbert, Wells The Church of St Cuthbert is an Anglican parish church in Wells, Somerset, England, dating from the 13th century. It is often mistaken for the cathedral. It has a fine Somerset stone tower and a superb carved roof. It is a Grade I listed buildi ...

and was created in 1866. The historic ecclesiastical

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

of Wells St Cuthbert had been split into two, with the

Wells St Cuthbert Out St Cuthbert Out, sometimes Wells St Cuthbert Out, is a civil parish in the county of Somerset, England. It entirely surrounds (but does not include) the city and parish of Wells as an enclave. According to the 2021 census it had a population ...

parish covering the area outside the city of Wells. On 1 April 1933 the civil parish was merged with

Wells St Andrew Wells St Andrew, or St Andrew Liberty, or derivations thereof, was a liberty, ecclesiastical parish, and later a civil parish, containing Wells Cathedral (which is dedicated to Saint Andrew) and surrounding land, now in the civil parish of Wel ...

(the historic liberty of the cathedral and the bishop's palace, amounting to just ) to form the present-day parish of Wells, which covers all of the city. In 1931 the parish had a population of 4541. The civil parish of St Cuthbert Out continues to exist (though now often without "Wells" in its name) and entirely surrounds the 1933-created parish of Wells.

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Former civil parishes in Somerset 1933 disestablishments in England Wells, Somerset {{Somerset-geo-stub