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"TEMPLETON is a scattered village and parish near the river Dart, 5 miles west-by-north from Tiverton station on the Exe Valley section of the Great Western railway, and 18 north-north-west from Exeter, in the North Eastern division of the county, hundred of Witheridge, petty sessional division of Cullompton, union and county court district of Tiverton, rural deanery of Tiverton West and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The original church of St. Margaret, formerly belonging to the Knights Templars, was built in 1335 in the Decorated style, and rebuilt in the same style in 1876. . . . the tower was restored and the bells re-hung in 1882: there are 100 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1556; marriages and burials, 1578. . . . The land is of a mixed character, arable and pasture. The crops are chiefly oats, barley and wheat. The area is 1,906 acres; rateable value £1,171; the population in 1901 was 175." [From: Kelly's Directory of Devonshire, 1902]
A parish in Witheridge Hundred, under the Peculiar jurisdiction of the Lord of the Manor.

General information:

Church History

St Margaret's Church Templeton, Templeton, Priest in Charge & the Churchwardens (2000) 14 pp.

Church Records

Parish Registers going back to 1556 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.

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.

History

Templeton - "Snapshot of a village in the mid-nineteenth century" - an excellent set of pages by Barbara Lupton, including details of many of the families of the parish.

Land and Property

Transcription, and some facsimiles of pages of George Jackson's accounts book for Chichester estates, 1846-18 64, provided by Barbara Lupton.

Names, Personal

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

Probate Records

Peskett, H. Manorial Probate Courts in Devon, Devon & Cornwall Notes and Queries, vol. 33, no. 6, (1976) pp.180.
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