Ugborough, Devon Family History Guide
Ugborough is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon.
Places in Ugborough parish: Cheston
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1538
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Presbyterian.
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Ugborough
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
UGBOROUGH, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Totnes district, Devon.
The village stands 1½ mile SSW of Kingsbridge-Road r. station; and has a post-office under Ivybridge, cattle markets on the fourth Monday of every month, and fairs on the fourth Monday of May and Nov.
The parish contains also five hamlets, and part of Ivybridge. Acres, 8,659. Real property, £10,264; of which £30 are in quarries. Pop., 1,482. Houses, 303. The property is. much subdivided; and there are many pleasant residences.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £260. Patrons, the Grocers’ Company. The church is later English.
There are an Independent chapel and a parochial school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Ugborough, 3 miles W. Modbury. P. 1523
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
UGBOROUGH, a parish, in the union of Totnes, hundred of Ermington, Ermington and Plympton, and S. divisions of Devon, 8 miles (W. S. W.) from Totnes; containing 523 inhabitants.
The parish is on the road from Plymouth to Exeter, and comprises 8659 acres, of which 2631 are common or waste. A lead-mine is worked at Filham, and there are some quarries of slate and limestone. Fairs are held in May and November.
The living is a discharged vicarage, endowed with a portion of the rectorial tithes, and valued in the king’s books at £20; net income, £260; patrons, the Grocers’ Company; impropriator of the remainder of the rectorial tithes, Lady Carew. There are 3 acres of glebe. The church is a handsome structure, standing upon a bold eminence, and forming a striking feature in the scenery; it is in the early English style, and contains a Norman font, and some curious remains of ancient screenwork.
At Ivybridge, a village partly in the parish, is a district church; and at Earlscombe was formerly a chapel. There is a place of worship for Baptists. Sir John Kempthorn, a distinguished admiral, was born at Widescomb here, in 1620.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Cheston
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Cheston, a hamlet in Ugborough parish, Devon.
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: Totnes
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Plympton
- Poor Law Union: Totnes
- Hundred: Ermington
- Province: Canterbury