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ROMANSLEIGH

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"ROMANSLEIGH (or Rumonsleigh) is a parish and village standing on the top of a hill and bounded on the north-east by the old Roman road, and is 4½ miles south from South Molton station on the Devon and Somerset branch of the Great Western railway and 6 north-north-east from Chulmleigh, in the Northern division of the county, Witheridge hundred, South Molton petty sessional division, union and county court district, and in the rural deanery of South Molton, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter; two small tributaries of the river Mole flow through the parish. The church of St. Rumon is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style. . . . the church was rebuilt in 1868 from designs by E. Ashworth esq. architect, of Exeter, and restored in 1885-7, when the tower was built: new chancel seats were erected in 1896, as a memorial to the Rev. Richard White Atkins M.A. rector 1884-95: in the churchyard are the remains of an old stone cross, and on the north side of the church is St. Rumon's well. The register dates from the year 1539. . . . The chief crops are wheat and oats. The area is 2,502 acres; rateable value, £1,198; the population in 1901 was 155." [From: Kelly's Directory of Devonshire, 1902]

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

Cemeteries

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 Records

The Devon FHS publishes indexes covering (as of June 2004): Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1730-1837 - for details see their book list.

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

Gazetteers

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

Genealogy

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.

Names, Personal

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

Ryall, David. Lest We Forget, War memorials around South Molton. South Molton Archive, 68pp. [ISBN 0 951236 1 4] [Provides an indexed list of names]

Societies

South Molton and District Archive Local History Society web-site (archived copy) - provides details of archive holdings for the twenty-eight parishes in what used to be the South Molton Rural District, lists of publications, etc.

Last updated: 22 Jun 2011 - Brian Randell

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