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A parish in Halberton Hundred, and the Archdeaconry and Diocese of Exeter."SAMPFORD PEVERELL, a well built and pleasant village, near the Grand Western Canal and Bristol and Exeter Railway, 5½ miles E.N.E. of Tiverton, and 9 miles S.W. of Wellington, has in its parish 857 inhabitants, and about 2000 acres of land. It has a great fair for cattle, sheep, and horses, on the Monday before the last Wednesday in April, and had formerly a large woollen manufactory. The manor, anciently belonging to the Peverells, and afterwards to the Dinham, Aisthorpe, and Powlett families, was sold with the demesne by the late Earl Powlett, to various freeholders. Sampford Barton, was for a long period the seat of the Powletts, . . . A Castle was built here by Oliver Dinham, about 1437, and its remains were cleared away about 1755. The Church (St. John.) is an ancient structure, with a tower and five bells, and contains a monument of Lady Powlett, who died in 1602. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £23. 8s. 11½d., and in 1831 at £320, is in the patronage of Dr. Lemann, and incumbency of the Rev. A. Boulton, D.D., who has 15A. of glebe, and a good residence, erected in lieu of the old one, by the Canal Company, at the cost of about £1500. . . ." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
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Whitmore, J.B. Devonshire Monumental Inscriptions, MS at Society of Genealogists (1951). [Extracts]
Sampford Peverell - from J. Stabb. Some Old Devon Churches (London: 1908-16).
Thorne, Roger F.S. History and mystery in Sampford Peverell: the story of Methodism and dissent in the parish. Ottery St. Mary: R.F.S.Thorne (1993) 22p: ill, maps. [Westcountry Studies Library - px285/SAM/THO]
The Devon FHS publishes indexes covering (as of June 2004): Baptisms 1813-1840, Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1813-1837 - for details see their book list.
Other churches and chapels (with pre-1840 records):
Register of Burials in the Parish of Tiverton (Tiverton Wesleyan Church 1834- 1899 and Sampford Peverell Wesleyan Church 1909-1916) [DFHS LOC 285]
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
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.
Geare, Ralph Holwell. Holwells of Bampton, Tiverton, Sampford Peverell and Bradninch. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 26, 1954-55, pp. 8-10.
Transcriptions by Ann Franklin of accounts of the Sampford Ghost from the Taunton Courier for 23 Aug 1810 and 30 Aug 1810.
Brief history and photograph of St Boniface's Home For Boys, Sampford Peverell, provided by The Children's society.
The Eighteenth Century Inhabitants of Sampford Peverell, Devon by The Sampford Peverell Society, provided by the Friends of Devon Archives.
Sampford Peverell manor & church: a very short history of the parish from Saxon times to the present day. (1968) 15p. [Westcountry Studies Library - pB/SAM 5/0001/SAM]
Bernhardt, Bridget and Holley, Jenny. Sampford Peverell of Yesteryear, (2001). [ISBN 1899073973] [DFHS Library p942.35/SAM]
Transcript of the will of John Broom (1786) by David Broom and Diane Harris.
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