Holcombe Rogus, Devon Family History Guide
Holcombe Rogus is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon.
Alternative names:
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1540
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1610
Nonconformists include: Baptist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Stawley, Somerset
- Sampford Arundel, Somerset
- Sampford Peverell
- Thorne St Margaret, Somerset
- Culmstock
- Hockworthy
- Burlescombe
- Ashbrittle, Somerset
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HOLCOMBE-ROGUS, a village and a parish in the district of Wellington, and county of Devon.
The village stands near the Western canal, the Bristol and Exeter railway, and the boundary with Somerset, 5½ miles N of Tiverton-Junction r. station, and 6 WSW of Wellington; has a post-office under Wellington, Somerset; and formerly had a market and a fair.
The parish comprises 3, 024 acres. Real property, £4, 344. Pop., 704. Houses, 145. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged, for eight generations, to the Norman family of Rogo; and passed to the Bluetts. Holcombe Court, now the seat of the Rev. W. Rayer, was built in the time of James I.; and recently underwent extensive renovation.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £300. Patron, the Rev. W. Rayer. The church is later English; consists of nave, aisles, transept, and chancel, with embattled tower; was recently restored; and contains tombs of the Bluetts.
There are a Baptist chapel and a charity school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
HOLCOMBE-ROGUS (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Wellington, hundred of Bampton, Cullompton and N. divisions of Devon, 6 miles (W. S. W.) from Wellington; containing 843 inhabitants.
It comprises 3000 acres, of which 490 are common or waste land. A weekly market and an annual fair were formerly held here. A branch of the Western canal passes through the parish.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £10. 10. 2½., and in the gift of the Wills family: the impropriate tithes have been commuted for £320, and the vicarial for £204; the glebe contains 1½ acre. A school is supported by an endowment of £1000.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Devon
- Civil Registration District: Wellington (Somerset)
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Exeter
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Tiverton
- Poor Law Union: Wellington
- Hundred: Bampton (Devon)
- Province: Canterbury