Twitchen Devon Family History Guide
Twitchen is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Devon, created in 1850 from a chapelry in North Molton Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Twitching
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1708
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
TWITCHEN, a parish in South Molton district, Devon; 12 miles NE of South Molton Road r. station. Post town, South Molton, North Devon. Acres, 2,918. Real property, £1,889. Pop., 227. Houses, 45. The manor belongs to Lord Poltimore. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to North Molton. The church, excepting the tower, was rebuilt in 1848. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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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: South Molton
- Province: Canterbury