East Putford Devon Family History Guide

East Putford is a chapelry of Buckland Brewer Ancient Parish in Devon.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1799
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1678

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

• Buckland Brewer
• Woolfardisworthy West
• Bulkworthy
• Parkham
• West Putford

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

PUTFORD (East), a parish in Bideford district, Devon: on the river Torridge, 9 miles SW of Bideford r. station. Post-town, Torrington, North Devon. Acres, 2,380. Real property, £1,034. Pop., 190. Houses, 34. The property is divided chiefly among three. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Buckland-Brewer, in the diocese of Exeter. The church is old but good.

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

Administration

• County: Devon
• Civil Registration District: Bideford
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Barnstaple
• Diocese: Exeter
• Rural Deanery: Hartland, Holsworthy
• Poor Law Union: Bideford
• Hundred: Shebbear
• Province: Canterbury