Sampford Spiney is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Devon, created in 1772 from a chapelry in Plympton St Maurice Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Samford Spiney
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1654
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1608
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
SAMPFORD-SPINEY, a parish, in the union of Tavistock, hundred of Roborough, Tavistock and S. divisions of Devon, 4¼ miles (E. by S.) from Tavistock; containing 443 inhabitants.
The parish is situated on the verge of Dartmoor, and intersected by the Plymouth and Dartmoor railway; it comprises 1475 acres, of which 285 are common or waste land. Here is a mine where cobalt and silver have been found.
The living is a perpetual curacy, with that of Shaugh annexed; net income of Shaugh £107, and of Sampford-Spiney £54; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Canons of Windsor.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Devon, Sampford-Spiney – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Sampford-Spiney, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Devon, Sampford-Spiney – Church records ( 8 )
City of Plymouth marriage index : index of brides and grooms taken from the post 1837 Plymouth Church of England marriage registers held in the Plymouth & West Devon Record Office in partnership with the Devon Family History Society
Author: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office; Devon Family History Society (England)
England, Devon, Horrabridge, parish registers, 1867-1996
Author: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
England, Devon, Sampford Spiney, bishop’s transcripts, 1608-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sampford-Spiney (Devonshire); Devon Record Office (Exeter)
England, Devon, Sampford-Spiney, bishop’s transcripts, 1814-1836
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sampford-Spiney (Devonshire); Devon Record Office (Exeter)
England, Devon, Sampford-Spiney, parish registers, 1654-1989
Author: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Horrabridge (Wesleyan) baptisms 1832-1914
Author: Devon Family History Society (England)
Sampford Spiney burial registers, 1770-1837
Author: Devon Family History Society (England)
Sampford Spiney marriage registers, 1813-1837
Author: Devon Family History Society (England)
England, Devon, Sampford-Spiney – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
The Deanery of Tamerton
Author: Devon Family History Society (England)
England, Devon, Sampford-Spiney – History ( 1 )
Horrabridge as it was
Author: Rowe, John, 1915-
England, Devon, Sampford-Spiney – Land and property ( 1 )
England, Devon, Sampford Spiney, inland revenue valuation book, 1910
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire); Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
England, Devon, Sampford-Spiney – Taxation ( 2 )
England, Devon, Sampford Spiney, inland revenue valuation book, 1910
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire); Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Land tax assessment for Sampford-Spiney, 1780-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Devonshire)
England, Devon, Sampford-Spiney – Voting registers ( 1 )
England, Devon, Tavistock, electoral register, 1950
Author: Tavistock (Devonshire); Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Administration
- County: Devon
- Civil Registration District: Tavistock
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Tamerton
- Poor Law Union: Tavistock
- Hundred: Roborough
- Province: Canterbury