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A parish in Teignbridge Hundred, the Archdeaconry of Totnes and the Diocese of Exeter. According to Peskett, inhabitants of Wreyland in Bovey Tracey were often registered at Lustleigh. Regarded as part of the Dartmoor area."LUSTLEIGH, or Listleigh, a small scattered village, in a romantic dell, opening to the valley of the West Teign or Bovy river, 3½ miles S.S.E. of Moreton Hampstead, has in its parish 311 souls, and 2239 acres of land, half of which is open commons and waste, on the eastern side of Dartmoor. On the common called Lustleigh Cleve, is a fine range of rocks and crags; and in the vicinity is a logan stone, and some other Druidical remains. The manor was dismembered many years ago, and the soil belongs to J. Gould, Esq., the Rev. S. Nosworthy, and several resident freeholders. Barne-Court was anciently the seat of the Barnehouse family. The Church (St. John,) is an antique fabric, with a tower and four bells. On an ancient tomb lie the effigies of Lord and Lady Dinham, and upon another is the figure of a crusader, supposed to represent Sir Wm. Prowse. The font is Norman and the oak screen is finely carved. The church has been repaired and beautified by the late and present incumbents. The living is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £16. 7s. 6d., and in 1831 at £170, in the alternate patronage of the Earl of Ilchester, and the Hon. P.C. Wyndham, and in the incumbency of the Rev. Fredk. Ensor, B.A., who has 35A. 3R. 17P. of glebe, and a large and commodious residence in the Gothic style. The tithes were commuted in 1839 for £290 per annum. The National School was built in 1825, and has £9. 10s. a year from land given by the late Rev. Wm. Davy. " [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
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Brewer, Dave. Frederick Foot and Dartmoor. Dartmoor Magazine no. 41, (1995) pp.22-23: ill. [Artist 1831-1908]
Brewer, Dave. The Rev. William Davy and Lustleigh School. Dartmoor Magazine no. 46, (1997) pp.10-11: ill. [Clergy, 1743-1826]
Buckman, David. Cecil Torr - a Devon author. Devon Life vol. 6 no. 51 (1970) pp.39.
Cresswell, Beatrix F. Rector and curate for forty years. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 10:8, (1919) pp.302. [Query v.10, p.222. See Baring-Gould, Devonshire characters, p126.] [William, Davy, 1744-1826]
Radford, Ursula. William Davy, priest and printer [d. 1826]. Trans. Dev. Assoc. 63 (1931).
Brown, Mike. Lustleigh (Full Survey). In Dartmoor Region Monumental Inscriptions Indexes, Vol. 20. Dartmoor Press, PO Box 132, Plymouth PL4 7YL.
Memorials in the church of St. John the Baptist at Lustleigh, in the churchyard and in the extension churchyard, Mill Lane. Photocopy of typescript (1978) [11], 6, [1], 16, [1], 40 leaves. [Westcountry Studies Library - x929.5/LUS/MEM]
Lustleigh - from J. Stabb. Some Old Devon Churches (London: 1908-16).
Harding, W. On the Churches of Lustleigh and Ilsington. (1854) 18p, plates: ill. [Westcountry Studies Library - sx726.5/DEV/HAR]
Harding, William. The churches of Lustleigh and Ilsington. Exeter Diocesan Architectural Soc. Trans. 1 ser, v. 5, (1856) pp.77-94.
Transcripts of the Parish Registers going back to 1631, 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 1785-1837 - for details see their book list.
Entered into the IGI (as of Jan 1993): Parish Church Christenings 1608-1837, and Marriages 1608-1837. (These entries are in part from Bishops' Transcripts.)
Brown, Mike. 1754-1812 Burial Indexes: Lustleigh. RT58, Dartmoor Press (2000).
Sellman, R.R. Parish registers of Lustleigh to 1837:edited transcript of the parish registers. Typescript (1987) 68p. [Westcountry Studies Libraries - x929.3/LUS/LUS]
Devon and Cornwall Record Society, The Register of Baptisms, Marriages & Burials of the Parish of Lustleigh, Devon, 1631-1837, and extracts from the Bishops' Transcripts, 1608-1811. Transcribed and edited by Herbert Johnson and H. Tapley-Soper., pp. xi. 114. Exeter, 1927-1930.
An index of baptisms (1813-1839), marriages (1754-1837) and burials (1813-1837) in the parishes of Ashburton, Bickington, Bovey Tracey, Buckland in the Moor, Hennock, Highweek, Ideford, Ilsington, Kingsteignton, Lustleigh, Manaton, Moretonhampstead, North Bovey, Teigngrace and Widecombe in the Moor. Photographs of the churches and extracts from White's Devonshire Directory 1850., CD-ROM, Exeter, Devon FHS (2011). [Ashburton Bapt: 1813-1840, Mar: 1754-1837, Bur: 1813-1837; Ashburton Independent Chapel Bapt: 1817-1839; Bickington Bapt: 1813-1839, Mar: 1754-1837, Bur: 1771-1837; Bovey Tracey Bapt: 1813-1840, Mar: 1754-1837, Bur: 1813-1837; Bovey Tracey Baptist Chapel, Bur: 1784-1837; Buckland in the Moor Bapt: 1813-1851, Mar: 1754-1837, Bur: 1737-1840; Hennock Bapt: 1813-1840, Mar: 1754-1837, Bur: 1813-1837; Highweek Bapt: 1813-1839, Mar: 1754-1838, Bur: 1813-1837; Ideford Bapt: 1813-1840, Mar: 1755-1837, Bur: 1800-1837; llsington Bapt: 1813-1839, Mar: 1754-1837, Bur: 1813-1838; Kingsteignton Bapt: 1813-1839, Mar: 1754-1837, Bur: 1813-1837; Lustleigh Bapt: 1813-1840, Mar: 1754-1837, Bur: 1785-1837; Manaton Bapt: 1813-1839, Mar: 1755-1837, Bur: 1813-1843; Moretonhampstead Bapt: 1813 1839, Mar: 1754-1837, Bur: 1813-1837; North Bovey Bapt: 1813-1840, Mar: 1754-1837, Bur: 1813-1837; Teigngrace Bapt: 1813-1840, Mar: 1755-1837, Bur: 1813-1837; Widecombe in the Moor Bapt: 1813-1839, Mar: 1754-1837, Bur: 1813-1837]
Conservation Area Appraisal for Lustleigh - an interesting account of the area, with numerous photographs and maps.
Barber, Chips. Around & About Lustleigh. Pinhoe, Exeter: Obelisk Publications. [ISBN 1899073728].
Bullock-Webster, Sandro. A visit to Lustleigh. Devon Life vol. 8 no. 61 (1971) pp.34-36; ill.
Edwards, C.K.D. Guide to Lustleigh, Parish Council (1959). [Devon FHS Library p929.35/LUS]
Brown, Mike. Trade Directory for Buckland in the Moor, Ilsington, Lustleigh, Manaton, North Bovey, Widecombe 1850, 1870, 1878, Dartmoor Press (2001).
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
This parish is one of the growing number of places for which the Devon Heritage website provides census or parish register transcriptions, articles, and/or illustrations, etc.
Dartmoor Press Online Magazine's page for this parish (archived copy), with articles, transcriptions, publication details, etc. - highly recommended.
Wills, Mike. The DNA of the Bovey Tracey and Lustleigh Wills family, Devon Family Historian, vol. 134, (2010) pp.29-30.
Peskett, H.M. The whereabouts of Cecil Torr's papers, Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 32, 1971-73, pp. 21-22.
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. XX: Lustleigh - Lords of the manor; WADHAM of Edge, including Nicholas WADHAM of Lustleigh (founder of Wadham College, Oxford); Rev. William DAVY] [Index]
Crowdy, Joe. The Book of Lustleigh (Halsgrove Community History Series), Halsgrove House, Lower Moor Way, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6SS, UK, Halsgrove Publishing (2001) 160 pp. [ISBN 1841141070] [Index]
Halle, Dr. Fraser. Letters Historical and Botanical: Relating chiefly to places in the Vale of the Teign. London: Houlston and Stoneman (1851). [Covers Chudleigh, Lustleigh, Canonteign and Bovey Tracey]
Osborne, S. Lustleigh: A study in the development and the changes in function of a Dartmoor fringe village. (n.d.) [Westcountry Studies Library]
Palmer, John E.C. The Davy divinity press at Lustleigh, Devon, Factotum, 4, (1978) pp.21-23.
Scott-Brown, Evelyn. A Devon hamlet half a century ago - Wreyland. Devon Life vol. 3 no. 28, (1967) pp.11.
Torr, Cecil. Miscellaneous Papers, Maps, and Illustrations Relating to Wreyland and Lustleigh. (1910-) 2 vols : il,maps.
Torr, Cecil. Small Talk at Wreyland; with an introduction by Jack Simmons. (1970)
Williams, H. Fulford. Notes on the Parish of Lustleigh, Devon. Typescript (1962) 9 leaves. [Westcountry Studies Library]
Worthy, Charles. Devonshire Parishes. Exeter: William Pollard (1887) - Vol. 2, pp. 183- 194.
Brown, Mike. Lustleigh. In "Dartmoor Tithe Apportionments, Vol. 6". The Dartmoor Press (c1997) 16p.
Torr, Cecil (ed.). Wreyland documents. Cambridge: University Press (1910) c, 199p, plates: ill. [Westcountry Studies Library - s347.02/LUS/TOR]
Torr, Cecil. Survey of Wreyland, 19 August, 1566. Cambridge: W. Lewis (1927).
Johnson, Herbert. Lustleigh and the war, 1914-1919: a list of those who served. Newton: Hearder & Son (1921) 24p. [Westcountry Studies Library - s940.467/LUS/JOH]
Toor, 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.
Lustleigh Apprentice Register 1803-1835, Exeter, Devon FHS (2006). [Foreword] [Names included in the overall index published as "Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief" (CD 023).Find help, report problems, and contribute information.
Last updated: 27 Jun 2011 - Brian Randell
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