Harford, Devon Family History Guide
Harford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1724
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1613
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HARFORD, a parish in Plympton-St. Mary district, Devon; on the river Erme, 2½ miles N of Ivy-Bridge r. station, and 5¾ N by W of Modbury. Post-town, Ivybridge.
Acres, 2,050. Real property, £1,936. pop., 158. Houses, 25. The property is subdivided. The scenery along the Erme is romantic. Nearly one-fourth of the land is moor. There is a large paper factory; and the proprietor of it built a large mansion in the parish in 1865. Another mansion was recently built by W. Matthews, Esq. A Druidical circle, with a kistvaen in the centre, is on a hill near the church.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £210. Patron, Lady Rogers. The church is ancient but good; consists of nave, chancel, and S aisle, with a tower; and contains two fine brasses, one of them of Speaker Williams, who died in 1565. The church-yard contains an old granite monument resembling a cromlech.
There is a chapel of ease, which was formerly an Independent chapel.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Census
Census returns for Harford, 1841-1891
Church Records
England, Devon, Harford, parish registers, 1695-1986 Author: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Harford : baptisms 1813-1839 Author: Devon Family History Society
Harford marriage registers Author: Devon Family History Society
The Deanery of Plympton Author: Devon Family History Society
Court records
Land and property
Ilsington charities, part I : parish lands Author: Ransom, Bill
Taxation
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Devon
- Civil Registration District: Plympton St Mary
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Plympton
- Poor Law Union: Plympton St Mary
- Hundred: Ermington
- Province: Canterbury