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WOOLFARDISWORTHY, EAST

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"WOOLFARDISWORTHY (near Crediton) is a parish and village, about a mile from the road from Crediton to South Molton, 6½ north from Crediton station on the London and South Western railway and 14½ north-west from Exeter, in the Northern division of the county, Witheridge hundred, Crediton petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Cadbury and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church of The Holy Trinity, rebuilt in 1845, is an edifice in the Early Perpendicular style. . . . there are 142 sittings. The register dates from the year 1664. . . . The chief crops are barley, wheat and oats. The acreage is 2,136; rateable value £1,492; the population in 1891 was 176 in the civil and 161 in the ecclesiastical parish." [From: Kelly's Directory of Devonshire, 1902]
According to Peskett, the parish is in the Archdeaconry of Barnstaple.

General information:

Cemeteries

MIs for this parish are included in the Devon FHS index - see under Cemeteries on the main Devon page.

Census

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

Church Records

Parish Registers going back to 1643 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 1754-1840, 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.

Names, Personal

Woolfardisworthy (East) contributors to a 1678 brief for the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral.

Probate Records

Orme, Nicholas. Three Early Devon Wills. In Devon Documents (ed. T. Gray). Tiverton: Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries, Special Issue (1996) [ISBN 0925836203] pp.136-141. [Re: John Ufflete, Woolfardisworthy East, 1416; John Shute, Ashreigny, 1437; William Richards, Churchstanton, 1532]

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