Kennerleigh, Devon Family History Guide
Kennerleigh is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Devon, created in 1752 from a chapelry in Crediton Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Kennerley, Kenwardleigh
Parish church: St. John the Baptist
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1645
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1608
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Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
KENNERLEIGH (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union and hundred of Crediton, Crediton and N. divisions of Devon, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Crediton; containing 118 inhabitants.
This parish, which is intersected by the road from Exeter to South-Molton, comprises by measurement 640 acres, whereof 384 are arable, 73 meadow, 70 moor and furze, 16 orchard, and 84 woodland; the soil is clay, and rather poor.
The living is a rectory, in the gift of the Governors of the Crediton charity: the tithes have been commuted for £95, and the glebe comprises 44 acres, situated in the adjoining parish of Woolfardisworthy.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Devon
- Civil Registration District: Crediton
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiars of the Bishop of Exeter (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1848 – None, Post-1847 – Cadbury
- Poor Law Union: Crediton
- Hundred: Crediton
- Province: Canterbury