Dodbrooke Devon Family History Guide

Dodbrooke is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon.

Alternative names: Dodbrook

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1725
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1597

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Plymouth Brethren, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DODBROOKE, a small town and a parish in Kings-bridge district, Devon. The town forms the eastern part of Kingsbridge town; is more ancient than Kingsbridge; belonged to the widow of Edward the Confessor; contains Pindar-Lodge, the birth-place of Dr. Wolcott, better known as Peter Pindar; was the first place in which white ale was brewed; shares generally in the trade of Kingsbridge; and has a fair of its own on the Wednesday before Palm Sunday. The parish comprises 464 acres; of which 105 are water. Post town, Kingsbridge. Real property, with Kingsbridge and Churstow, £12,586. Rated property of D-alone, £1,482. Pop., 1,183. Houses, 238. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £183. Patron, Rev. J. Dewing. The church is very old, but was not long ago repaired. Charities, £15.

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

Administration

  • County: Devon
  • Civil Registration District: Kingsbridge
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes
  • Diocese: Exeter
  • Rural Deanery: Woodleigh
  • Poor Law Union: Kingsbridge
  • Hundred: Coleridge
  • Province: Canterbury