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A parish in Hemyock Hundred, under the Peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter."CULMSTOCK, a large village in the picturesque valley of the river Culm 7 miles N.E. of Collumpton, and 6 miles S.S.W. of Wellington, has in its parish 1446 souls, and 4530 acres of land, rising boldly from the valley, and including the hamlets of Upcott, Nicholshayne, Prescot, and Northend. . . . An old beacon, on a lofty hill, is still in good condition, and was occasionally used during the late wars. The manor has long been vested in the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, who are also appropriators of the rectory, and patrons of the Vicarage, valued in K.B. at £16, and in 1831 at £329, and now in the incumbency of the Rev. J.W. Karslake, who has a good residence ad 3A. of glebe. . . The Church (All Saints,) is an ancient structure, with a tower, containing five bells, and having a yew tree growing out of one of its sides. In the parish are three Chapels, belonging to the Quakers, Baptists, and Wesleyans. The parish has a National School, and is mostly leasehold under the Dean and Chapter; but R.H. Clark, Esq., and a few smaller owners, have estates here." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
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Culmstock - from J. Stabb. Some Old Devon Churches (London: 1908-16).
Holmes, Muriel. Culmstock Church: A Guide & History, (1989). [SOG Library: DE Tracts Box]
Transcripts of the Parish Registers going back to 1545, and of the Bishops' Transcripts going back to 1608, 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): Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1813-1837 - for details see their book list.
Other churches and chapels (with pre-1840 records):
Culmstock Burials, 1813-1837. [Devon]: Devon Family History Society.
Culmstock Marriages, 1813-1837. [Devon]: Devon Family History Society.
Taylor, Anthony. Culm Valley Album, Bradninch, A. Taylor (1987) 191 pp. [Illustrations: 1880-1987] [Westcountry Studies Library xB/CUL 1/1880/TAY]
Norton, David. Emigration from Culmstock, Devon Family Historian, vol. 127, (2008) pp.8-12. [Concerning the Talbot, Wright, Norton, Braddick families' emigration to Australasia,]
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
Ames, Art. Digitised Books - Another Possible Genealogy Resource, Devon Family Historian, vol. 135, (2010) p.4. [Illustrated by information about the Hallet and Pook families, mainly relating to Culmstock]
Norton, David. We Were Servants to the Temple Family, Devon Family Historian, vol. 123, (2007) pp.4-6. [Descendants of John Norton and Mary Rabjohns]
Doble, William. Miscellaneous notes archaeological & historic on Culmstock. Manuscript] (1905) 200p. [Westcountry Studies Library]
Sampson, Pat. Culmstock as an industrial town. Devon Historian 19, (1979) pp.33-34.
Sanders, M.J. Culmstock Village History. Typescript (1957) 6p. [Westcountry Studies Library - B/CUL 7/0001/SAU]
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]
Culmstock: a Devon village. Culmstock Local History Group (1982) [4], 104p: ill,maps. [Westcountry Studies Library - pB/CUL 7/0001/CUL]
Settlement Certificate re John Pears, 1711 - facsimile. Devon Family Historian 36 (1985) p.21.
Transcriptions of the wills of James Currum (1658), Henry Coram (1826) and Maria Talbot (1857), by Diane Harris.
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