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A parish in Exminster Hundred, and the Archdeaconry and Diocese of Exeter."MAMHEAD is a small parish of scattered houses, chiefly on the western acclivities of a bold eminence, 3 miles W. of Starcross, and 4 miles E. by N. of Chudleigh. It has 246 inhabitants, and 1220 acres of land, mostly the property and manor of Sir R.L. Newman, Bart., whose father was created a baronet in 1836. He resides at Mamhead Park, which has a large and handsome mansion in the Elizabethan style, erected about 20 years ago on the site of the old house, which was mostly built by Sir Peter Balle, an eminent loyalist who died in 1680, aged 82. It was afterwards the seat of the two last Earls of Lisburne. The house stands on a rising knoll at the junction of three narrow valleys, opening towards the coast, and backed with a high woody ridge of Haldon. . . . On the lofty wooded summit of Mamhead Point, stands a noble obelisk of Portland stone, built by Thos. Balle, Esq., about 1742. The Church stands in the park, and is a neat structure with a tower and five bells. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £10. 17s. 6d., and in 1831 at £206, is in the patronage of Sir R.L. Newman, Bart., and incumbency of the Hon. and Rev. H.H. Courtenay, M.A., who has a good residence and 20A. of glebe. . . . " [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
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Sir Robert Lydston Newman, by John Williams.
Fisher, N.R.R. Sir Peter Balle of Mamhead (1598 - 1680): a study in allegiance. Trans. Devon. Assoc. 129, (1997) pp.79-107.
MIs for this parish are included in the Devon FHS index - see under Cemeteries on the main Devon page.
Mamhead Churchyard Listing - compiled by John Williams.
Memorials inside the Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Mamhead - transcribed by John Williams.
Cresswell, B.F. Notes on the Churches of the Deanery of Kenn, Devon, (1912). [Extracts]
Transcripts of the Parish Registers going back to 1549 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 - for details see their book list.
Entered into the IGI (as of Jan 1993): Parish Church Christenings 1549-1837, and Marriages 1556-1837. (These entries are in part from Bishops' Transcripts.)
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
Fincham-Powell, Kate and Tim Williams. Memories of Mamhead and Ashcombe. Exeter: Obelisk Publications (1995) 20p: ill. [Westcountry Studies Library - pxB/MAM/0001/FIN]
Griffiths, Grace. The book of Dawlish: a history of Dawlish and Dawlish Warren with notes on the surrounding villages of Ashcombe, Cofton, Kenton, Mamhead, Powderham and Starcross. Buckingham: Barracuda (1984) [BL X.800/39475]
Walker, E. Views of Mamhead: The seat of Sir Robert Newman, Bart., from nature and on stone. (1848) [Torquay Library]
Mamhead contributors to a 1678 brief for the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral.
Transcription of the will of Thomas Newman 1875, from Newfoundland's Grand Banks Genealogy Site.
Transcription of the will of Sir Robert William Newman 1875, from Newfoundland's Grand Banks Genealogy Site.
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