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A parish in Teignbridge Hundred, the Archdeaconry of Totnes and the Diocese of Exeter. Regarded by some as part of the Dartmoor area."HENNOCK, a small village, on an eminence overlooking the Teign valley, 3 miles W.N.W. of Chudleigh, has in its parish 828 inhabitants, and 3469 acres of land, including the hamlet of Knighton, or Chudleigh Knighton, which has 234 inhabitants, and a small village in the valley, 2 miles S.W. of Chudleigh. The parish also includes Warmhill, and many scattered houses, and abounds in tin and iron ore, which is about to be worked by the "Hennock Iron-Steel and Tin Mining Company,", . . . Lead and copper are also found here . . . Pipe and potters' clay is found at Knighton. The parish is mostly in the same manors as Bovey Tracey; but the soil is chiefly freehold, belonging to Sir L.V. Palk, Lord Exmouth, the Duke of Somerset, Wm. Harris, John Caunter, C. Winstanley, and A. Chichester, Esqrs., and several smaller owners. The Church (St. Mary,) is a large ancient edifice, in the early perpendicular style, with a tower and five bells. . . . The vicarage, valued in K.B. at £16, and in 1831 at £206, is in the patronage of J. Mason, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Wm. Woolcoombe, of Christow." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
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Hill, J.H.E. Letters to a Vicarage, 1796-1815. (1988) [ISBN 09511161121] [Devon FHS Library - 942.35/HEN]
Lough, A.G. John Mason Neale, priest extraordinary. Hennock: The Author (1975) 152p. [Westcountry Studies Library - s920/NEA]
Hennock - from J. Stabb. Some Old Devon Churches (London: 1908-16).
Fulford, R Medley. Hennock church and parish. Exeter Diocesan Architectural Soc. Trans. 3 ser, v. 2, (1907) pp.142-151; plates.
Lough, A. G. The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Hennock, Devon. London] Ecclesiological Society,1961, [16] pp. (incl. cover) 4 illus.
Transcripts of the Parish Registers going back to 1541 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.
Other churches and chapels (with pre-1840 records):
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
The Online Parish Clerk scheme's representative for this parish is Daniel Morgan, who invites queries and lookup requests.
Worthy, C. Devonshire Parishes: or the antiquities, heraldry and family history of twenty-eight parishes in the archdeaconry of Totnes (2 vols), Exeter, W. Pollard (1887). [Chap. XVIII: Hennock - Baldwin de BRION; lords of the manor; FLODE] [Index]
Brooks, Tony. Great Rock: Devon's last metal mine. St Austell, Cornwall: Cornish Hillside Publications (2004), pp.180, (with 27 figures and 63 photographic plates). [ISBN (Clothbound) 1 900147 335, (Paperback) 1 900147 327] [Index]
Jones, John Pike. Notes on the Parish of Hennock (from his "Notes on the Hundred of Teignbridge, 1825") typed with additional notes by H. Fulford Williams). 1952 [Westcountry Studies Library - sB/HEN/0001/WIL]
Nunny, R.S. Any old iron. Devon Life vol. 6 no. 50 (1970) pp.16-19; ill. [Great Rock Mine, 1850-1969]
Williams, H. Fulford. Notes on the parish of Hennock, Devon by Rev. G.P. Jones: "Notes on the Hundred of Teignbridge" 1925, typed with additional notes by H. Fulford Williams. Typescript (1962) 13 leaves. [Westcountry Studies Library]
Worthy, Charles. Devonshire Parishes. Exeter: William Pollard (1887) - Vol. 2, pp. 144- 161.
Torr, Cecil. Index to the Names of the Male Inhabitants over 18 Years of Age in the Parishes of Moretonhampstead, Hennock, Lustleigh, South Bovey otherwise Bovey Tracey, North Bovey, Manaton, Ilsington, and Widecombe in the Moor, in the Years 1641, 1642. Cambridge University Press, [1913]. pp. 11. 22 cm.
Transcription of the will of Gilbert Hearder Cole (1843), provided by Ian Hearder.
Hennock School- Admission Register - 1876-1901, Exeter, Devon FHS.Find help, report problems, and contribute information.
Last updated: 3 Mar 2008 - Brian Randell
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