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"CLAYHIDON, or Clayheadon, is a village and parish on the south side of the Black Down Hills, near the sources of the Culm and the borders of Somersetshire, 4½ miles S.S.W. of Wellington, and 15 miles E.N.E. of Tiverton. It contains 849 inhabitants, and 5089 acres of land, rising in bold hills from the small river Culm to the lofty range of Black Down Hills . . . where the Wellington Monument raises its towering head. This handsome stone pillar was erected by public subscription, in commemoration of the Duke of Wellington and the Victory of Waterloo. A pleasure fair is held near it on Waterloo day. Mrs Gifford, of Wellington, is lady of the manor of Clayhidon, which was anciently held by the Hidon and Dinham families, and afterwards by the Pophams and Sanxeys, the latter of whom sold it to the Giffords. The Blackmore, Farrant, and other families have freehold estates in the parish. . . . The Church (St. Andrew,) is an ancient Gothic structure, with a tower and five bells. . . . The rectory, valued in K.B. at £38. 5s., and in 1831 at £621, is in the patronage of George Burnand, Esq., and the incumbency of the Rev. Henry Tippetts Tucker, M.A., who is also rector of Augersleigh, where he resides. . . ." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
A parish in Henyock Hundred, the Archdeaconry and the Diocese of Exeter.

General information:

Archives and Libraries

The Blackdown Hills Parish Chests project (archived copy) is making a large amount of archive material - scanned original documents, transcriptions, photographs, etc. - available online relating to the Devon parishes of Blackborough, Clayhidon, Churchstanton, and Yarcombe.

Biography

Everley, Mike. Just Who Were Henry Hutchings' Grandparents?, Devon Family Historian, vol. 130, (2009) pp.7-8. [b. 1851, Clayhidon]
Guthrie, Sylvia C. What Can You Find in 18th and 19th Century Newspapers?, vol. 112, (2004) pp.26-28. [Items related to Joseph Ford of Exeter, Ann Hilling of Clayhidon, Wiliam Lewis of Hartland, and John Bicknell of Plymouth]

Cemeteries

MIs for this parish are included in the Incledon index - see under Cemeteries on the main Devon page.

A transcription of the Memorial Inscriptions for the Church of St Andrew is held in the Society of Genealogist's Library, in Vol. 9 of Devon Memorial inscriptions.

Clayhidon Local History Group. The monumental inscriptions of the church and churchyard of St Andrew's Clayhidon. 1986 [Exeter Univ. Lib.]

Church History

Wakeling, Ian E. The history of St. Andrew's Church, Clayhidon, Devon. Clayhidon: Clayhidon PCC (1984) 38p. [Westcountry Studies Library - p726.5/CLA/WAK]

Church Records

Parish Registers going back to 1673 are held in the Devon Record Office - for details see Parish Registers in the Devon Record Office.

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

Other churches and chapels (with pre-1840 records):

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

The Deanery of Dunkeswell, CD012, Devon Family History Society, Exeter (2007). [Contains indexes: Awliscombe - Baptisms 1813-1839, Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1813-1837; Churchstanton - Baptisms 1813-1837, Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1813-1839; Clayhidon - Baptisms 1813-1839, Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1813-1837; Combe Raleigh - Baptisms 1813-1839, Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1813-1837; Dunkeswell - Baptisms 1813-1839, Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1800-1837; Hemyock - Baptisms 1813-1839, Marriages 1635-1837, Burials 1813-1837; Luppitt - Baptisms 1813-1839, Marriages 1754-1838, Burials 1813-1837; Sheldon - Baptisms 1813-1839, Marriages 1755-1836, Burials 1770-1837; Upottery - Baptisms 1813-1839, Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1813-1837; Yarcombe - Baptisms 1813-1839, Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1813-1837.]

Description and Travel

Taylor, Anthony. Culm Valley Album, Bradninch, A. Taylor (1987) 191 pp. [Illustrations: 1880-1987] [Westcountry Studies Library xB/CUL 1/1880/TAY]

Gazetteers

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

History

A History of Clayhidon (Archived Copy), from the Blackdown Hills Project.

Thorne, Robert Linham. The history of the Culme valley and its villages: Hemyock, Culmstock, Clayhidon, Dunkeswell, Churchstanton, Uffculme, Wellington, R.L. Thorne (1951) 26 pp. [Westcountry Studies Library DEV/0001/THO]
Clayhidon: a parish on the Blackdowns, Clayhidon Local History Group, CLHG Office, The Old Rectory, Clayhidon, Cullompton, Devon (1999) 116 pp. [ISBN 0953635309]

Land and Property

Spreadsheet transcription of the Tithe Apportionments.

Names, Personal

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

Probate Records

Transcript of the will of Thomas Rowswell (1605) by Anne Keel.

The following wills are held in the Somerset Record Office: James Crocke 1676, Henry Chard 1698, Mary Treake 1734, George Pocock 1744, John Chard 1765. (Available from the LDS - LDS film 1526121 item 29 - though described as being of Clayhidon, Dorset.)

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