Stockland with Dalwood, Devon Family History Guide
Stockland with Dalwood is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon.
Other places in the parish include: Dalwood.
Alternative names: Stockland
Parish church: St. Michael
Parish registers begin:
Stockland with Dalwood
- Parish registers: 1640
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Dalwood
- Parish registers: 1568
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Baptist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
STOCKLAND (St. Michael), a parish, in the union and hundred of Axminster, S. division of Devon, 6 miles (N. E. by E.) from Honiton; containing 1841 inhabitants, of whom 1328 are in the portion of the parish exclusive of the chapelry of Dalwood.
The parish comprises 10,000 acres: the surface is hilly, and the soil a rich marl; dairy-farming prevails, and considerable quantities of wheat are grown.
The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £15. 13. 11½.; patrons, the Freeholders and Inhabitants: the tithes of the parish, exclusive of Dalwood, have been commuted for £309 payable to the impropriators, and £450 payable to the vicar, who has also a glebe of one acre. The church is a large ancient structure.
There is a chapel of ease at Dalwood; and a national school is supported by subscription, and an allowance of £10 a year from lands left for charitable purposes.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Devon
- Civil Registration District: Axminster
- Probate Court: Pre-1836 – Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset, Post-1835 – Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Exeter
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1836 – Bridport, Post-1835 – Honiton
- Poor Law Union: Axminster
- Hundred: Axminster
- Province: Canterbury