Kingsnympton, Devon Family History Guide
Kingsnympton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon
Alternative names: Kings Nympton, Nymet Regis
Parish church: St. James
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607
Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Mariansleigh
- Warkleigh
- South Molton
- Chumleigh
- Satterleigh
- Nymet St George
- Romansleigh
- Chittlehamholt
- Chittlehampton
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
NYMPTON, KING’S (St. James), a parish, in the union of South Molton, hundred of Witheridge, South Molton and N. divisions of Devon, 3½ miles (N.) from Chumleigh; containing 777 inhabitants.
The manor, which was parcel of the ancient demesne of the crown, was granted by King John to Joel de Mayne, by whose rebellion it was again vested in the crown: it was given by Henry III. to Roger le Zouch. In the reign of Edward III. it belonged to Sir Jeffrey Cornwall, whose family continued to possess it in that of Henry V.
Sir Lewis Pollard, one of the justices of the common pleas, purchased the manor, built a mansion, and inclosed a park, in the reign of Henry VII. Sir Arthur Northcote, Bart., who died in 1688, purchased King’s Nympton of the Pollards; and James Buller, Esq., who died in 1765, purchased the property of the Northcotes, and built the house now called New Place, or King’s-Nympton Park, afterwards the residence of John Buller, Esq., one of the commissioners of excise. The lords of the manor had anciently the power of inflicting capital punishment.
The parish comprises 4572 acres, of which 889 are common or waste land.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £28. 6. 8.; net income, £376; patrons, the family of Saville. The church has a handsome wooden screen.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Devon
- Civil Registration District: South Molton
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Barnstaple
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: South Molton
- Poor Law Union: South Molton
- Hundred: Witheridge
- Province: Canterbury