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BONDLEIGH

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"BONDLEIGH, or BUNDLEIGH, a small village in the Taw valley, 7 miles S. by W. of Chulmleigh, and N.N.E. of Okehampton, has in its parish 342 souls, and 1784 acres of land, mostly the property of the Trustees of the late Earl of Egremont, who are lords of the manor and patrons of the rectory, valued in K.B. at £10. 17s. 8½d., and in 1831 at £232. The Rev. G. Stone is the present rector, and has 55A. 2R. 33P. of glebe, and a thatched residence. The tithes were commuted in 1842, for £200 per annum. The Church (St. James,) has a tower and four bells, and here is a small chapel occupied by Baptists and Bible Christians. . . ." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]

• General historical and descriptive information, area map from 1765, details about administrative boundaries, etc., about Bondleigh from the Devon Library's Local Studies Service.

Cemeteries

Whitmore, J.B. Devonshire Monumental Inscriptions, MS at Society of Genealogists (1951). [Extracts]

Church History

Bondleigh - from J. Stabb. Some Old Devon Churches (London: 1908-16).

Williams, H. Fulford. Bondleigh: Patrons and Rectors. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 29, 2 (1962) pp.53-56.

Church Records

The Devon FHS publishes indexes covering (as of June 2004): Baptisms 1813-1839, Marriages 1754-1837 - for details see their book list.

Nothing entered into the IGI (as of Jan 1993).

Granville, Roger & Mugford, W.E. (eds.) Bondleigh, 1607-1636. Abstracts of the Existing Transcripts of the Lost Parish-Registers of Devon, 1596-1644, and short notes on the extant pre-reformation registers of all the parishes in the county, from particulars furnished by the several incumbents thereof. Vol. 1 A-Bra. Exeter: W. Pollard (1908). [Full text]

Directories

Transcription provided by Val Henderson of the entry (description and names) in Morris and Co's Commercial Directory and Gazetteer of Devonshire 1870.

Gazetteers

The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.

History

Williams, H. Fulford. Notes on the Parish of Bondleigh, Devon. Typescript (1950) 7 leaves. [Westcountry Studies Library: sxB/BON/0001/WIL]

Names, Personal

Bondleigh contributors to a 1678 brief for the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral.

Probate Records

Transcript of the will of James Shobbrook (1860) by Adrian Parry.

Last updated: 8 Apr 2012 - Brian Randell

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