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CLYST HONITON

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"CLIST HONITON, a village and parish on the east side of the river Clist, 4 miles E. by N. of Exeter, contains 467 souls, and 1760 acres of land. The Dean and Chapter of Exeter are lords of the manor, owners of most of the soil, impropriators of the great tithes, and patrons of the perpetual curacy, valued in 1831 at £146, and now enjoyed by the Rev. W.W. Bagnell, B.A., who has nearly 3A. of glebe, and £165 a year in lieu of tithes. The Church is a fine old structure, with a tower and six bells, and contains several monumental memorials of the Yarde, Short, and other families. In 1691, Thos. Weare left various rent-charges out of Holbrook estate for schooling poor children of this and other parishes. The annuity payable to this parish is £4. 10s." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]

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

Cemeteries

Church Records

Transcripts of the Parish Registers going back to 1683 are held in a special collection in the Westcountry Studies Library - for details see Parish Registers in the Devon & Cornwall Record Society's Collection.

The Devon FHS publishes indexes covering (as of June 2004): Baptisms 1813-1840, Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1813-1837 - for details see their book list.

Entered into the IGI (as of Jan 1993): Parish Church Christenings 1683-1875, and Marriages 1683-1874.

Sellman, R.R. Clyst Honiton, Devon: edited transcript of parish registers to 1837/1860, with family reconstitutions etc. Typescript (1992) 69p. [Westcountry Studies Library - sx929.3/CLY/1683]

Gazetteers

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

Genealogy

The Online Parish Clerk for this parish is Chris Graves, who invites queries and lookup requests. (Resources: PRs.)

Retter, Frank. An East Devon Farm and its Village. Exeter: Obelisk Publications (1985) 64p: ill,maps. [Westcountry Studies Library 929.2/RET] [Retter Family]

Land and Property

Retter, C.F. Outline Notes on the History of Marlborough Farm, Clyst Honiton. Bath: The Author (1979) 27, xiiip: ill, map. [Westcountry Studies Library - sx728.67/CLY/RET]

Last updated: 9 Dec 2007 - Brian Randell

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