Drewsteignton, Devon Family History Guide

Drewsteignton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon.

Other places in the parish include: Teignholt.

Alternative names: Teignton Drew, Drews-Teignton

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1557

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Drewsteignton

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DREWSTEIGNTON, a parish in Okehampton district, Devon; on the river Teign, at the E side of Dartmoor, 4½ miles NNW of Moreton-Hampstead r. station, and 8½ SW by W of Crediton. It includes the hamlet of Teignholt; and its post town is Crockernwell, under Exeter. Acres, 6, 937. Real property, £7, 008. Pop., 1, 067. Houses, 226. The property is much sub divided. The manor belonged, at Domesday, to Sheriff Baldwin; was held, in the time of Henry II., by Drogo or Drewe de Teignton; and passed to the D’Abernons and the Carews. The scenery along the Teign here is highly romantic; and various spots have a cromlech, a logan stone, two Druidical circles, some traces of the Via-Sacra or Druid-way, and an ancient British camp The name Drewsteignton has often been regarded as a corruption of “Druids’ Town on the Teign;” but was really derived from Drewe de Teignton. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £776. Patrons, Messrs. Ponsford. The church is a good old interesting structure, with turreted tower.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Drews-Teignton, 12 m. W. Exeter. P. 1315

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850

Teignholt

Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Teignholt, a hamlet, in the parish of Drews-Teignton, union of Oakhampton, hundred of Wonford, Crockernwell and S. divisions of Devon; containing 181 inhabitants.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

Administration

  • County: Devon
  • Civil Registration District: Okehampton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Exeter
  • Diocese: Exeter
  • Rural Deanery: Dunsford
  • Poor Law Union: Okehampton
  • Hundred: Wonford
  • Province: Canterbury