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PYWORTHY

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"PYWORTHY is a village and parish, 2½ miles south-west from Holsworthy terminal station of a branch of the London and South Western railway, in the Southern division of the county, Black Torrington hundred, Holsworthy union and county court district, rural deanery of Holsworthy, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Swithin is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style . . . there are 300 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1653; marriages, 1681; burials, 1682. . . . The chief crops are wheat, oats and roots. The area is 5,688 of land and 12 of water; rateable value, £2,509; the population in 1901 was 455." [From: Kelly's Directory of Devonshire, 1902]


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A parish in Black Torrington Hundred, the Archdeaconry of Totnes and the Diocese of Exeter.

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General information:

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

Cemeteries

Whitmore, J.B. Devonshire Monumental Inscriptions, MS at Society of Genealogists (1951). [Extracts]

Census

Snetzler, M.F. North Devon Surname Index to the Census. Microfiche: M.F. Snetzler, Barcott, Buckland Brewer, Bideford, Devon EX39 5LN. [Covers 1841, 1861, 1871 and 1881 census records for this parish]

Church History

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

Church Records

Parish Registers going back to 1653 are held in the Devon Record Office - for details see Parish Registers in the Devon Record Office.

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):

Lana Wesleyan Chapel: Registers for c1817-37 - see Holsworthy (PRO RG 4/1210)

Nothing entered into the IGI (as of Jan 1993).

Directories

Transcription provided by Val Henderson of the entry (description and names) in Morris and Co's Commercial Directory and Gazetteer of Devonshire 1870.

Gazetteers

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

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