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"ROOSDOWN, or Rousdown, [is] an extra parochial estate, of one house and 190 acres, belonging to R.C. Bartlett, Esq., the patron, and lying within the bounds of Axminster parish, adjoining the great landslip of Dowsland and Bindon. This depopulated place was anciently held by the Down family; and its chapel (St. Pancras,) has long been desecrated, and is now used as a lumber room to the farm-house. . . ." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]


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Also known as Rousden, St Pancras and Down St Pancras. A very small parish in Axminster Hundred, the Archdeaconry 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 Rousdon from the Devon Library's Local Studies Service.

Biography

Charles Grover, the Rousdon star man, by Jerry Grover.

Church History

Dallas, J. The Rectors of St Pancras, Rousdon. Notes and Gleanings - Devon and Cornwall 2 (1889) pp.150-156.

Church Records

Parish Registers going back to 1872 are held in the Devon Record Office - for details see Parish Registers in the Devon Record Office.

Prior to 1872 registrations were at Axmouth, and perhaps Combpyne.

Rousdon churchwardens, by Jerry Grover.

Gazetteers

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

History

Additional notes on Rousdon, by Graham Jones.

Yallop, H.J. Rousdon: a Victorian Enterprise. Trans. Devon Assoc. 125 (1993) pp. 31- 48.

Schools

Coxhead, J.R.W. (comp.) Allhallows School, register and record, 1852-1932. Windsor: Luff & Sons (1933) 157p, plates: ill.

Coxhead, J.R.W. The history of Allhallows School - 2nd ed. Rousdon: Old Honitonians Club (1972) 68p: ill [ISBN 0900316004]

Graham, Jones. Penny Dinners, Devon Family Historian, no. 100, (Nov 2001) p.20. [Rousdon School]

Allhallows School register 1856-1896. Honiton: John M.Tucker (1896) 54p, plates: ill.

Rousdon Mansion, former home of the Peek family 1787-1937, present home of Allhallows School: a brief guide (3rd ed.), (1990). [S0G Library - DE Tracts]

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