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NORTHLEIGH

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"NORTHLEIGH is a parish consisting of a few scattered houses, 4 miles south-east from Honiton station on the main line of the London and South Western railway, and 20 east from Exeter, in the Eastern division of the county, Colyton hundred, Honiton petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Dunkeswell and Honiton, and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Giles is a building of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style . . . in 1869 the church was new roofed and the nave and tower restored; the latter at the cost of the late Sir Edmund S. Prideaux bart.; there is a memorial window to the Rev. H. P. Daniell, a former rector, erected by his daughter, Miss M. F. Daniell, and a marble tablet in the north aisle to Robert Underdown esq. formerly of this parish, d. 2 April, 1811: the font is Norman. There are 150 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1700; marriages, 1708; burials, 1697. . . . The crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is 1,172 acres; rateable value, £1,208; the population in 1891 was 190 in the civil and 180 in the ecclesiastical parish, and 172 in the civil parish in 1901." [From: Kelly's Directory of Devonshire, 1902]

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

Biography

Skinner, A.J.P. John Carpenter, vicar of Branscombe 1580-1620/21, rector of Northleigh 1587-1620/21, and his son Nathaniel. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 7:3, (1912) pp.95-97. [1588-1628]

Smith, Jeannette. Untangling the Reverends William Salter of Northleigh and Cadeleigh, Devon Family Historian, vol. 138, (2011) pp.29-31.

Cemeteries

Church History

Northleigh - from J. Stabb. Some Old Devon Churches (London: 1908-16).

Photographs of the parish church, provided by Michael Wright.

Church Records

Transcripts of the Parish Registers going back to 1700 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 1700-1812, and Marriages 1700-1812.

Gazetteers

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

Genealogy

Skinner, A.J.P. Tristram Bowdage. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 10:8, (1919) pp.326-327. [See vol.10, p.274, line 4.]

Land and Property

Digitised 1840 tithe maps, including one of this parish, are available on the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership's website.

Names, Personal

Northleigh contributors to a 1678 brief for the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral.

Taxation

Hoskins, W.G. Extracts from the lay subsidy rolls...for the parishes of Luppitt [1591, 1660], Cotleigh [1660], Monkton [1660], Shute [1660], Northleigh [1660], Farway [1660] and lists of the inhabitants of the precinct of Bradninch in Exeter, 1708, 1732, 1752, Manuscript (1935). [D&CRS Library, Exeter: P1660]

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