Cockington, Devon Family History Guide
Cockington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon.
Cockington parish includes: Chelston
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1628
Nonconformists include:
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Parish History
Cockington
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Cockington, 5 m. N.E. Totnes. P. 203
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
COCKINGTON, a parish, in the union of Newton-Abbot, hundred of Haytor, Paignton and S. divisions of Devon, 2½ miles (W.) from Torbay; containing 203 inhabitants. This place is of considerable antiquity, and appears to have obtained a degree of importance at an early period; in 1297, the inhabitants received the grant of a market and a fair, both which have long been discontinued. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to that of Tor-Mohun; impropriator, the Rev. Roger Mallock. The church contains an octagonal font and a wooden screen. Queen Elizabeth leased the rectory of Tor-Mohun, and the church of Cockington, to Sir George Cary, who in 1609 erected almshouses here for seven persons, with an endowment of £30 per annum.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Chelston
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Chelston, a hamlet and a manor in Cockington parish, Devon.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Administration
- County: Devon
- Civil Registration District: Newton Abbot
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Manor of Cockington
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1848 – None, Post-1847 – Ipplepen
- Poor Law Union: Newton Abbot
- Hundred: Haytor
- Province: Canterbury